AddressZone Training Advisor, Clerk Grade 7/8
- Work in a leading emergency service agency, supporting SES members and NSW communities
- Join a high performing and motivated training team
- Full time temporary role until May 2025
- Based from Tamworth NSW, soon to be relocating to a new facility within Tamworth.
- Some travel within NSW will be required to fulfil the role requirements
- A Talent Pool may be created
- Attractive salary of up to $117,363.00 + 15% field allowance + leave loading + super
About the opportunity
The NSW SES has an exciting opportunity for a training professional looking to utilise and expand their skills and knowledge whilst working with a team of dedicated staff and volunteers.
You will utilise your skills to co-ordinate the development and implementation of training and exercising plans, building capability and capacity within a dynamic and essential emergency service combat agency.
Working within the Operational Capability & Training team, you will take a key role planning, delivering, and consolidating cohesive learning outcomes between members, units and joint agencies.
About the NSW SES
Our Mission: NSW SES saving lives and creating safer communities.
Our Vision: A trusted volunteer-based emergency service, working together to deliver excellence in community preparedness and emergency response.
The NSW SES serves the NSW community as the lead agency for floods, storms, and tsunamis as specified by the State Emergency Service Act 1989. We are recognised as the most versatile and widely used emergency service organisation in NSW. Our volunteers are highly skilled, experienced, and well- trained in the wide variety of roles they perform.
Each NSW SES Unit is as unique and varied as the community it serves, reflecting the vast mix of risks faced and roles required in the diverse locations and communities across the state. In addition to flood, storm and tsunami, our Service provides specialist capabilities that include general land rescue, vertical rescue, road crash rescue, and alpine and remote area search and rescue. The NSW SES responded to over 64,000 requests for assistance from the community over the 2021-22 year.
The NSW SES has over 10,000 volunteer members, including reserves, and a full-time equivalent workforce of over 450. There are 262 volunteer Units across the State and our volunteer Units are either local, community-based Units, State-wide or regional Units established to provide specialist capabilities. They are varied and unique in their capabilities, designed to address specific risks to communities of NSW.
About you
To be successful in this role you will:
- Certificate IV in Training and Assessment TAE40116 (or equivalent, or higher level qualification) or the Assessor Skill Set TAESS00011, or the Trainer and Assessor Skill Set TAESS00015 and commitment to upgrade if required within 12 months
- Have experience in the management, development, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of Training Plans and associated budgets
- Have strong communication skills and ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders to ensure their needs are fully understood and reflected in initiatives and decisions
- Be able to identify skill gaps and develop, effective and efficient development solutions
- Be able to demonstrate your ability to manage multiple concurrent projects while still achieving favourable results
- Knowledge of AIIMS principles and processes and/or willingness to acquire competence within 12 months
What we can offer you
- Employment with attractive leave entitlements including parental leave, recreation and flex leave and other leave entitlements
- Attractive salary package of up to $131,845.59 ($106,025.00 - $117,363.00 + 15% field allowance + leave loading + super)
- Flexible work options working within operational requirements
- Mental Health & Wellbeing programs and services
- Operational and leadership training and development opportunities via LinkedIn Learning and other training avenues to build and maintain skills
- Comprehensive immunisation programs including the flu vaccine
- Opportunities to build invaluable relationships across emergency service agencies, emergency service committees and other Government and community organisations.
How to apply
Your application should include as separate attachments:
- A cover letter (maximum of two pages) briefly responding to the essential requirements and your interest in the role;
- An up to date resume of no more than four pages detailing your skills and experience relevant to the role
Target Questions
- How do you ensure that training plans are developed to meet capability needs of the organisation. Please include your experience in developing, monitoring and managing strategic training plans for diverse learners.
- Please detail, using an example, on how you engage and consult with key business stakeholders when developing and monitoring training plans.
Want to know more?
If you want to know more about this opportunity, please contact Jake McDonald – Manager, Training & Resources on 0457 117 ***.
The role description is available here.
Talent Pool
A talent pool may be created through this recruitment process. A talent pool is a group of candidates who have undergone an assessment process and have been identified as suitable for this role or similar roles for a period of 18 months. Being part of a talent pool means that you may be considered for ongoing or temporary employment for a range of similar roles. This offers exciting opportunities for you to gain a wide range of experiences to build your public service career.
For more information on how to apply for a role in the NSW Public Sector please click here.
Applications close: Sunday 9th June 2024 at 11.59pm
The NSW State Emergency Service is a proud employer of a diverse workforce. We encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, cultural background, faith, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity. We are committed to reflecting the diverse community we serve and creating an inclusive and flexible workplace. People with disability are supported to access adjustments in recruitment processes and in the workplace, to enable them to demonstrate their skills and capabilities to meet the requirements of the job. As supporters of flexible working, we welcome discussions about how our roles can be undertaken flexibly.
