Vacancies

Description

The Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management is a business unit of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. It provides leadership in reducing risk, being ready for, responding to and recovering from emergencies.

We have an exciting opportunity for a suitably experienced Emergency Management Senior Advisor OR Advisor. This role 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 Emergency Management Senior Advisor/Advisor (Welfare Services) influences and supports planning and policy at the national level as part of the National Planning Team. The National Planning Team are responsible for maintaining the national CDEM planning framework, including hazard-specific planning, and providing strategic leadership, support and advice at sector-wide levels for welfare, lifeline utilities and business continuity management programmes of work.

Welfare services support individuals, families and whanau, and communities in being ready for, responding to, and recovering from emergencies.

This role will co-lead the Ministry’s welfare services programme including National Welfare Coordination Group (which provides strategic oversight of planning and development of integrated welfare services arrangements) Secretariat and Work Programme oversight, and engage and advise national welfare services agencies and Civil Defence Emergency Management Groups on how to meet their obligations under the National Civil Defence Emergency Management Plan 2015.

You will play a pivotal role to connect, support, and engage welfare services agencies with the civil defence emergency management sector to enable planning and activities across the 4Rs of risk reduction, readiness, response and recovery from emergencies.

As Emergency Management Senior Advisor/Advisor (Welfare Services), you will be responsible for:

• Providing specialist advice and support at the national, regional and local levels in relation to welfare services National Civil Defence Emergency Management Plan requirements.
• Co-leading the Ministry’s welfare services programme with a strong focus to support and advocate for risk reduction, readiness, response and recovery practices.
• Maintaining subject matter knowledge of welfare services sectors and statutory requirements.
• Maintaining policy into guidance for welfare services in order to inform practice.
• Building and maintaining effective relationships and liaising with CDEM stakeholders and welfare services agencies at both senior and operational levels.

Skills and experience

You will need to be:

• Well-organised and plan systematically 
• An excellent communicator and have strong writing skills.
• Able to develop, foster and maintain strong relationships.
• Able to self-manage, self-initiate and self-start.
• Able to collaborate at a senior level.
• An analytical thinker and have strong problem solving skills.
• Able to effectively present information to audiences at all levels.

In return, you will be given the chance to participate in all-of-government and multi-sectoral programmes, to shape national civil defence emergency management planning and to gain much sought-after crisis and issues management skills.

You will also have a very hands-on role during emergencies as a member of the MCDEM Duty Team and fulfilling an operational role during activations of the National Crisis Management Centre.

This is an opportunity to make a difference to our preparedness for future emergencies. If this sounds like something you would like to be an integral part of, please contact us today.

Please note that due to the security requirements of this role applicants must be New Zealand citizens or permanent residents.

Applications close at 5pm on Sunday 21 October 2018.

To apply, please visit the Central Agencies Jobs website(external link) 

Description

The Minsitry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management has an exciting opportunity for a suitably experienced Team Leader in the Recovery team. This role 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 Team Leader, Recovery will lead MCDEM's Recovery Team to:

• Develop and maintain the strategic framework for recovery to enable coordinated and holistic recovery process to meet the needs of affected communities;
• Grow national, regional and local recovery capacity, capability, collaboration and leadership;
• Incentivise a learning culture that promotes continuous improvement to recovery preparedness and management; and
• Enable communities to adapt to their changed environment following emergencies through the provision of support and co-ordination across local, regional and central government.

The role will take the lead at the national and sometimes international level 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 responsibilities

Key role responsibilities will include:

• Acting as a thought leader to provide expert advice and opinion on recovery management issues and opportunities, peer review of Ministry policy advice and strategies and continually improve his/her expert knowledge of recovery management policy and practice;
• Developing, maintaining, implementing, and reviewing the CDEM recovery framework including arrangements in the National CDEM Plan, Guide to the National CDEM and supporting plans;
• Developing and promulgating best practice support systems including codes of practice, standards, structures, frameworks, doctrine, and guidelines which enhance the ability of MCDEM, and CDEM stakeholders to develop and deliver recovery activities;
• Facilitating recovery forums to share practices, address recovery issues, and develop a national body of recovery practitioners;
• Provision of subject matter expertise to the development of recovery training programmes designed to raise national capability;
• Engaging and championing recovery policy and practice with external stakeholders at Senior and Executive levels.

Skills and requirements

Our ideal candidate will possess:

• Experience in managing people performance and bringing out the best in staff to deliver high quality, fit-for-purpose results;
• A tertiary qualification in emergency management or related discipline and experience in planning, or project management, including public sector and/or commercial contexts;
• Knowledge of the machinery of government;
• Knowledge of local government policy and practice;
• Demonstrated experience leading the successful delivery of high quality emergency management or recovery management initiatives;
• Experience leading and chairing multi-agency committees, working collectively to deliver sustainable, long-term improvements;
• Strong experience building and maintaining effective relationships across a range of groups and individuals with potentially conflicting interests;
• Advanced level of communication and well developed interpersonal skills at a strategic stakeholder level, including effective negotiation and conflict resolution skills.

You will also have a very hands-on role during emergencies as a member of the MCDEM Duty Team and fulfilling an operational role during activations of the National Crisis Management Centre.

The indicative remuneration range for this role is $121,377 - $151,721

Please note that due to the security requirements of this role applicants must be New Zealand citizens or permanent residents.

Applications close at 5pm on Friday 19 October 2018.

For further information, please contact Jenna Rogers, Manager Analysis and Planning via jenna.rogers@dpmc.govt.nz.

To view the job description please visit the Cetral Agencies Jobs website(external link)

Description

The Hazard Risk Management Advisor and/or Senior Advisor fixed term role influences and supports planning and policy at the national level as part of the Hazard Risk Management and Analysis Team.

This fixed term role 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.

As Hazard Risk Management Advisor and/or Senior Advisor, you will:

• Provide specialist advice and support at the national, regional and local levels on risk reduction, resilience-building and post-event recovery across a range of natural hazards;
• Support and/or lead hazard-related portfolios to support effective risk management practices, with a strong focus on research;
• Maintain subject matter expertise on hazard risk reduction, learning from international experiences and best practice;
• Support all-of-government approaches on 'big-picture' issues and projects relating to New Zealand's future risk and resilience
• Work across MCDEM to ensure our public education materials, operational response plans, staff training, warning system arrangements and guidance to Civil Defence Emergency Management Groups include robust science information regarding hazards and risks; and
• Maintain a strong evidence-based focus and translate science research into advice, policy and practice;
• Build and maintain effective relationships and liaise with CDEM stakeholders and agencies at the national and local level.

Skills and requirements

Ideal candidates will have:

• Proven experience in hazard risk management
• Experience in understanding, translating and applying science research into the required workstreams
• Experience in making qualitative and quantitative assessments
• Experience in strategic-level engagement, promoting risk reduction across government and to stakeholders
• Knowledge, understanding and ability to interpret, develop and apply national policies
• Project/portfolio management experience with an ability to use project management methodologies
• Strong problem solving skills and be an analytical thinker
• Strong relationship development and management skills
• Ability to self-manage, self-initiate and start

As this role is fixed term, you will not be required to fulfil a role as part of the MCDEM Duty Team, or hold an operational role during activations of the National Crisis Management Centre.

The indicative appointing pay range for this role is Advisor: $59,416 - $74,270 or Senior Advisor: $81,794 - $102,242.

The successful candidate will be required to obtain and maintain a Confidential level national security clearance.

The minimum citizenship and residency criteria for this to be granted is:

• Most preferably a New Zealand citizen, who has resided in this country continuously for at least the last 5 years; or
• Is a citizen of, and/or has resided continuously in 1 or more of the following countries for the last 5 years - either Australia, Canada, NZ, the United Kingdom (UK), or the United States of America (USA) - and has a background history that is verifiable and can be assessed as appropriate by NZSIS towards a recommendation of suitability for a security clearance at this level.

To apply, or view the job description please see below. Applications will only be accepted online.

Applications close 5pm on 22 October 2018.

For further information, please contact Sarah-Jayne McCurrach. Team Leader, Hazard Risk Management on 04 817-8571 or sarah-jayne.McCurrach@dpmc.govt.nz

To apply, please visit the Seek website(external link)