About the Organisation

Make a real difference in the lives of vulnerable Australians with this unique opportunity to provide both corporate expertise and community support. With a focus on people, not profit, Life Without Barriers’ corporate services team partners with our direct support staff, clients, and their families to ensure we continue our mission to change lives for the better.  If a truly inclusive, collaborative, and fast-paced work environment sounds like your next career move, this is an opening not to be missed.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people, and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.  Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client’s individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the role

This is a new role reporting to the Manager, Enterprise Risk and Resilience. You will be a key member of the Risk and Resilience Unit (RRU) and core member of the National Emergency Management Team establishing a centre for excellence in LWB to harness capability and capacity to manage new and emerging risks and effectively respond and recover from immediate and extended disasters, emergencies and significant business disruption, including the ongoing Covid 19 pandemic response and impacts of climate change.

You will be part of an expanding team to lead the maturity and resilience of organisation-wide emergency management and disaster response as part of the business continuity management framework and in accordance with the National Emergency Management Protocol.

This position is a permanent, full time position, location flexible.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish the emergency response portfolio within Group Risk Performance and Impact.
• Maintain an integrated system and organisation-wide capability for emergency management as part of broader application of risk, resilience, and business continuity frameworks.
• Provide advice and assurance to the Board, Executive and Senior Managers about the outcomes and impacts of emergency response approaches. 
• Maintain knowledge and awareness of emergency and disaster response requirements and prioritise current and future mitigation activities.
• Implement a robust system of governance to prepare and respond to material emergency events and risks affecting the organisation.
• Provide strategic and operational leadership and management to support and advance emergency and disaster planning and emergency preparedness across LWB.
• Develop and deliver emergency exercises and training drills to test and improve emergency response capabilities as part of the broader business continuity testing and exercising program.
• Support business units to maintain and test local emergency response arrangements including coordinating emergency exercises and improvement initiatives.
• Lead strategy and business plan outcomes and other organisational programs and initiatives.
• Monitor, coach, support, motivate and develop emergency response capability across LWB corporate and operational teams.
• Support sector uplift and maturity in emergency management practice.

 Skills & Experience

• Tertiary level qualifications related to emergency management or relevant field.
• Current Driver’s licence.
• Extensive experience at an enterprise or sector-level in emergency and disaster response management including work effectively under pressure, leveraging internal and external relationships to influence and motivate people calmly and confidently in times of crisis.
• Experience leading large-scale implementation of emergency response management activities.
• Demonstrated experience is designing and delivering fit for purpose emergency management training and exercising programs.
• Expert knowledge of emergency management systems, process, and practice in the community services sector.
• Demonstrated experience in managing competing priorities and delivering high quality outcomes within agreed timelines.
• The ability to influence and work collaboratively with a range of stakeholders including peers, employees, external organisations, funding bodies and government agencies.
• Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills for the creation of reports, correspondence, presentations and other material.
• Proficient ability in the use of Microsoft Office suite of programs.

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Children Check (where relevant to the role).

Benefits

• Opportunity to work for one of Australia's largest social purpose organisations
• New role within the Risk and Resilience Unit, permanent full time, location flexible
• Competitive remuneration package including NFP salary packaging benefits
• Opportunity to have a big impact

How to Apply

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply Now’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact at Debra Neil @ [email protected] using the subject line: Emergency Response Manager - Flexible Location enquiry via EthicalJobs.

To be considered for and appointed to a position at Life Without Barriers, you must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 with a minimum of two (2) doses or hold a valid medical exemption certificate, in accordance with Life Without Barriers Employee COVID-19 Vaccination Policy. You will be required to provide evidence of your vaccination status during the recruitment process.

We are dedicated to playing our part to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and bring continuity of care and support to our clients. With this in mind, if you are successful, we will discuss with you an alternative to a face to face interview.

Life Without Barriers supports the Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability. We believe people with disability need to be heard and for these experiences to influence how support services like ours are delivered. View our statement here https://bit.ly/2GzZGWA