Vacancies

We have an exciting opportunity for two 12 month fixed term contracts for Advisor/Senior Advisor, recovery roles. These roles will provide an opportunity to engage with a broad range of stakeholders and make an impact at the national level. This is your chance to be part of a team that is hugely influential and passionate when it comes to building New Zealand's disaster risk management and resilience.

The Advisor/Senior Advisor, Recovery roles lead and support the development and maintenance of the strategic framework for recovery to enable a coordinated and holistic recovery process to be carried out before, during and following an emergency. The roles will take a lead in representing the Ministry's position to advance recovery through engagement with a broad range of stakeholders, especially at strategic or sector-wide levels.

Key role responsibilities will include:

• Providing best practice technical advice and opinion on recovery management issues and opportunities to internal and external; stakeholders
• Developing, maintaining, implementing, and reviewing the CDEM recovery framework including arrangements in the National CDEM Plan, Guide to the National CDEM and supporting plans
• Engaging and championing recovery policy and practice with external stakeholders
• Seeking opportunities to add value by advocating and educating CDEM stakeholders on the recovery framework and statutory obligations
• Leading the development and maintenance of operational procedures and guidelines for recovery
• Supporting the development of capability development material and training for recovery

Our ideal candidate will possess:

• A tertiary qualification in emergency management or related discipline as well as experience in emergency management
• Excellent writing and verbal communication skills, high level collaboration and relationship management skills
• Project management experience
• Knowledge of the machinery of government
• Knowledge of local government policy and practice
• Strong experience building and maintaining effective relationships across a range of groups and individual

You will also have an operational role during and following emergencies.

The indicative remuneration range for the Advisor role is Grade 15 - $66,000 to $77,000

The indicative remuneration range for the Senior Advisor role is Grade 17 - $91,000 to $108,000.

Applications close at 5pm on 24 May 2019.

See the job description for more information

Tauranga is New Zealand's fastest growing and fifth largest city. Managing this growth makes for a challenging and dynamic work environment. Tauranga City Council is focused on the City's future and responding to the changing needs of the community. We want to work with our community to successfully plan for and understand their needs and expectations.

We are looking for an exceptional Manager: Emergency Management & Civil Defence to join our talented Community Services team on a permanent basis. This is an excellent opportunity to lead the development, implementation and management of Tauranga City Council's emergency management plans, processes and procedures, including support for Declared Emergencies and civil defence responses.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Lead the implementation of an effective Civil Defence framework
• Facilitate community preparedness and resilience around the four R's (reduction, readiness, response and recovery) for emergency events
• Enable the organisation to continue operations during a disaster or emergency
• Increase TCC staff emergency management awareness through ensuring effective development and delivery of training, education and awareness strategies and programmes
• Provide leadership, support and development for the emergency management team
• Strengthen relationships with our emergency management and civil defence partners

 To be considered for this role, you must have:  

• A relevant tertiary qualification
• Significant experience in emergency management, business continuity, crisis management or a related field
• Extensive experience at a senior management or strategic level, ideally in local Government
• Ability to influence and promote engagement at a senior level, along with leadership and project management skills
• Current Full Drivers Licence

In addition, it would be advantageous if you have a qualification associated with land hazard engineering, risk or hazard management: along with knowledge of the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act, RMA, Building Act, LGOIMA and the Local Government Act.

If you are experienced in the implementation of business continuity, crisis management or civil defence emergency management plans and have a strategic outlook, then please apply now via the below link. For more information please read the position description which can be accessed via our careers page.

Applications close 31 May 2019.

• Join one of the leading emergency management teams in Australasia and help build a resilient Auckland
• Support the development and delivery of welfare training and development programmes
• Duty Officer responsibilities with career progression

Auckland, or Tāmaki Makaurau, is New Zealand's largest, fastest growing and most culturally diverse city. Due to Auckland’s location and particular characteristics, the city has many enviable natural features from the golden sands of Auckland’s east coast, to the rainforests and black volcanic sands of the west coast.  These same characteristics however, also make the region susceptible to a number of hazards ranging from infrequent events such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunami to more regular events such as flooding, electricity outages and storms.

A lot of Auckland Emergency Management’s work is centred on building community resilience; helping everyone to understand community vulnerabilities and how to plan for the consequences, to minimise impacts across Auckland. It also plays an important role in responding to, and recovering from disasters both within the Auckland region and, when required, across New Zealand.

He angitūtanga: The opportunity

Your focus as a Welfare & Recovery adviser, will be to support the development and implementation of approaches, systems, networks, documents and templates which will help Auckland Emergency Management respond to, and recover from, an emergency event.

In particular, you’ll support the development of welfare sub-plans for to help identify people who need welfare support during an emergency, and to ensure that food, water and shelter are available to those in need. You will also support planning how Auckland will recover after a disaster, and the development of Recovery Task Groups.

This role provides an on-call component as Duty Officer undertaking monitoring and early reaction to threats affecting the Auckland Region. As Duty Officer, your role is pivotal in supporting the Duty Manager in setting conditions for a Controller and incident management team, at the start of an emergency, in a potentially high consequence, pressure environment. There is training and opportunity to fulfill Duty Officer obligations whilst progressing towards Duty Manager responsibilities.

He kōrero mōu: About you

We’ll be looking for experience in emergency management or community welfare management, and your demonstrated ability to work effectively and communicate and develop relationships collaboratively.

Able to work in a high pressured environment, and work with and coordinate a range of people from diverse communities and backgrounds, you’ll also demonstrate a good understanding and knowledge of emergency management and welfare arrangements.

Ngā āhuatanga kei a mātou: What we offer

In addition to the employee benefits you will enjoy, this is a unique opportunity to not only work with senior experts in the emergency management space, but significantly develop and drive your career, while contributing to building a resilient Auckland.

Applications close Wednesday, 22nd May 2019

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• Join one of the leading emergency management teams in Australasia and help build a resilient Auckland
• Drive evidence-based policy and practice in a fast-paced environment
• Provide leadership and expertise in hazards and warnings

Auckland, or Tāmaki Makaurau, is New Zealand's largest, fastest growing and most culturally diverse city. Due to Auckland’s location and particular characteristics, the city has many enviable natural features from the golden sands of Auckland’s east coast, to the rainforests and black volcanic sands of the west coast.  These same characteristics however, also make the region susceptible to a number of hazards ranging from infrequent events such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunami to more regular events such as flooding, electricity outages and storms.

A lot of Auckland Emergency Management’s work is centred on building community resilience; helping everyone to understand natural hazard risks and how to plan for the consequences, to minimise impacts across Auckland. It also plays an important role in responding to emergencies both within the Auckland region and, when required, across New Zealand, which in turn requires an excellent understanding of natural hazard risks, probability, predictability and potential consequences.

He angitūtanga: The opportunity

As the Senior Hazards and Warnings Advisor, you’ll provide leadership and expertise in the fields of hazards advice and hazard alerting and warning, and have a key role in the Readiness Team in driving and implementing a number of significant projects.

You’ll have a critical role to play in advising on hazards and translating their impact, and developing a science-based approach to alerting and warning triggers to enable Emergency Management staff and communities to respond to impending events. Being highly collaborative you will work with scientists, engineers and other subject matter experts across Council, academia and other agencies.

During civil defence emergencies, you’ll be providing high quality advice around hazards and risks and their potential impact on people, property and infrastructure.

He kōrero mōu: About you

With solid experience in a hazards-related science or in emergency management, you’ll bring an understanding of hazards warning systems, and ideally experience of using or drafting standard operating procedures or methodologies to interpret and respond to scientific information-based stimuli.

We’re looking for a passion for emergency management and translating science into practical approaches, alongside the capability to work in a complex high-pressure environment.

You’ll have proven ability in report writing, project delivery and in translating complex scientific or technical concepts into plain English, alongside an in depth understanding of natural hazards, including research and numerical modelling relating to; Tsunami, flooding, Volcano, Coastal inundation and Cyclones.

Ngā āhuatanga kei a mātou: What we offer

Beyond a competitive salary, and the employee benefits you will enjoy, this is a unique and significant opportunity to drive improvements in emergency management planning and lead key projects, and so enjoy job satisfaction while increasing your professional profile.

As a key member of the Planning and/or Intelligence function under the New Zealand CIMS, you’ll be required to be on rotational stand-by and play a critical role in assessing likely impacts and advising on appropriate mitigation or other response actions when required. 

Applications close Wednesday, 22nd May 2019

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• Join one of the leading emergency management teams in Australasia and help build a resilient Auckland
• Lead the development of an approach to create resilient business communities 
• Provide technical leadership and direction

Auckland, or Tāmaki Makaurau, is New Zealand's largest, fastest growing and most culturally diverse city. Due to Auckland’s location and particular characteristics, the city has many enviable natural features from the golden sands of Auckland’s east coast, to the rainforests and black volcanic sands of the west coast.  These same characteristics however, also make the region susceptible to a number of hazards ranging from infrequent events such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunami to more regular events such as flooding, electricity outages and storms.

A lot of Auckland Emergency Management’s work is centred on building resilience in our communities; helping everyone to understand natural hazard risks and how to plan for the consequences, to minimise impacts across Auckland. It also plays an important role in responding to emergencies both within the Auckland region and, when required, across New Zealand.

He angitūtanga: The opportunity

The key purpose of your role as Principal Business Resilience Advisor, is to lead and manage outreach and relationship building of business resilience practice to business stakeholders in Auckland – developing resilience planning approaches to ensure resilience of Auckland’s business communities and economy after a disaster.

Understanding relevant legislation, and responding to industry issues and consultation, you’ll keep abreast of leading edge thinking in resilience, business community engagement and business risk management and successfully translate this into actionable projects and programmes in the CDEM resilience space.

He kōrero mōu: About you

Coming with extensive experience in emergency management, or working with business communities to change behaviour or identify and manage risks, you’ll have solid leadership experience in a complex multi-disciplinary environment managing complex technical outcomes, and demonstrate the proven ability to work in a high pressured environment. You will also bring a good understanding of Auckland’s diversity, and our diverse business communities.

Working collaboratively, delivering on challenging outcomes, excellent stakeholder engagement and extremely competent decision-making and sound judgement will feature in your skill set, alongside a solid and proven ability to build a positive, harmonious, collaborative culture, with trust at the core.

Ngā āhuatanga kei a mātou: What we offer

This is a unique and significant opportunity, which is not only beneficial to your professional profile, but a chance to develop business community engagement initiatives that not only reflect the super diversity of Auckland but also engage effectively Auckland’s diverse ethnicity and demographics.

Applications close Wednesday, 22nd May 2019

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• Key senior leadership role
• Join one of the leading emergency management teams in Australasia, and significantly contribute to building a resilient Auckland
• Bring your leading edge thinking in the resilience space

A lot of Auckland Emergency Management’s work is centred on building community resilience; helping everyone to get ready and understanding risks to minimise impact. It also plays an important role in planning for, and responding to emergencies both within the Auckland region and, when required, across New Zealand.

He angitūtanga: The opportunity

This is a senior leadership position within Auckland Emergency Management, where as Head of Resilience you’ll have the critical role of leading and managing the Resilience Unit, which is responsible for building resilience across Auckland. Leading and directing your team around the development of community and business resilience plans will feature in your remit, working widely with different stakeholder groups to develop an understanding of hazard impacts, and planning community and business level response and recovery.  Identifying and understanding community vulnerabilities, you will also work with others to develop emergency welfare strategies for our communities, and to ensure they are adopted into our response plans and our partnership arrangements.

As someone keenly abreast of leading edge thinking in the resilience, community engagement and community development space, you’ll relish the opportunity to successfully translate this into actionable projects and programmes in the CDEM resilience space, and excellent deliverables in terms of plans, policies and committee documentation. Your excellent relationship skills will enable you to develop collaborative approaches across community-focused agencies, NGOs and volunteer groups.

He kōrero mōu: About you

You’ll bring with you extensive experience in emergency management or community/business resilience, and true tried and tested leadership experience in a complex, multi-disciplinary environment.

You’ll be able to talk to a background of successfully delivering on strategies, and demonstrate the proven capability to work in a high pressured environment.

Working collaboratively, delivering on challenging outcomes, excellent stakeholder engagement and extremely competent decision-making and sound judgement will feature in your skill set, alongside a solid and proven ability to build a positive, harmonious, collaborative culture, with trust at the core.

Ngā āhuatanga kei a mātou: What we offer

In addition to the employee benefits you will enjoy, this is a unique and significant opportunity to lead activities that capture the world’s best practice in resilience and community, and translate that practice into effective Auckland specific outcomes.

This role is not only great for your professional profile, but you will get immense satisfaction that your work will have city-shaping, long lasting effects on building a resilient Auckland.

This role is required to participate in Emergency Management on call and stand-by emergency response system, and may be required to perform additional emergency response and recovery functions as necessary.

Applications close Wednesday, 22nd May 2019

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• Full-time, two year, fixed-term role based with our team in Greymouth
• Tertiary qualification in Emergency Management or related field, experience in emergency response at a senior level and training in Coordinated Incident Management Systems (CIMS)
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal, ability to engage with a wide range of health and response sector staff at all levels

Ehara taku I toa takitahi engari, he toa takitini

My strength, is not the strength of one, it is the strength of many

What you'll do with your time

• Assist with the development, implementation, testing and review of the internal and external business continuity and emergency plans at the WCDHB
• Develop and implement a work programme for Alpine Fault Earthquake planning for the South Island health and disability sector

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated Emergency Planner to join us to ensure that the West Coast District Health Board is capable of responding immediately and effectively to major incidents and emergencies. Alongside this work the role is split 50/ 50 between Emergency Planning for the WCDHB and South Island AF8 planning across the Health and Disability sector. This is a multi-organisational role working with both the WCDHB, South Island DHBs and the Ministry of Health.

We are looking for someone with these traits:

• Broad knowledge of emergency responses appropriate to health institutions
• Analytical in your approach and have the ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Skills in training and/ or teaching adults

What we are about

We are unique and like no other in New Zealand with a close-knit community where your work will make a real difference.

We will help you grow as a leader in rural health with a continued focus on your career development

We continue to break new ground and shape our health system to wrap care around patients in their communities.

Why us

This isn't a job for just anyone, joining us means sharing our goals and values and being dedicated to this community and our team as we seek to become a centre of excellence in rural health care. We offer competitive benefits, flexible working arrangements and a relocation scheme to candidates who will join us in this.

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