Senior Advisor, Continuous Improvement
Type: Permanent
Location: Wellington
Application Closing Date: 5pm Sunday 25th May 2025
Summary of job:
Every emergency holds powerful lessons. Your job is to make sure we don't miss them.
We're looking for a proactive, collaborative Senior Advisor to join our Continuous Improvement team. You'll help ensure that what we learn from real-world events and exercises leads to lasting, meaningful improvements in how we prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies.
In this role you will plan and lead after-action reviews, analyse complex information, and engage with diverse stakeholders to support continuous improvement across the emergency management system.
Essential Skills & Requirements
- Proven experience and knowledge in lessons management and/or continuous improvement — ideally in an emergency management, public sector, or high-pressure operational environment.
- Strong facilitation skills, with experience leading debriefs and post-event reviews across diverse stakeholder groups.
- Analytical skills to identify systemic issues, draw insights, and develop evidence-based recommendations.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build trust and work collaboratively across organisations.
- Be a strong communicator, able to confidently communicate data and insights in written form to non-technical audiences.
- Sound technical acumen, particularly IT and communication systems.
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