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About the Role

The Senior Officer - Recovery (Nationwide) is responsible for developing and delivering targeted support and guidance to states and territories to ensure they can effectively recover from disasters and other crises. This role involves working at a national level to increase knowledge and understanding of recovery processes, advocate for best practices, and address the psychosocial needs of disaster-affected people and communities.

Responsibilities

Develop and refine national policies and practices for disaster recovery, ensuring alignment with evidence-based and best-practice approaches.
Deliver high-quality resources, training, tools, and workshops to enhance disaster recovery efforts across all states and territories.
Apply community development principles to build recovery capacity and capability within communities nationwide.
Establish and maintain collaborative relationships across the emergency management and recovery sectors, promoting and enhancing national disaster recovery initiatives.
Conduct regular monitoring, evaluation, and reporting to assess the effectiveness of national recovery policies and initiatives, using data to inform practice and improvements.

Requirements

Demonstrated sound technical knowledge, expertise and understanding of disaster recovery and community development principles.
Proven ability to develop and deliver training, workshops, and resources.
Excellent advocacy and communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders.
Sound analytical skills and demonstrated ability to assess, evaluate and solve problems and exercise initiative and judgment where practices and procedures are not clearly defined with the ability to use data to inform practice.
Ability to work under general direction from senior employees and work with teams and people from diverse backgrounds and create a collaborative working environment.
Ability to set priorities, plan and organise their own work and that of lower classified staff and/or volunteers.
A valid Working With Children Check (or the ability obtain one) is a mandatory requirement for this role.

Skills

Disaster recovery
Community development
Training delivery
Resource development
Workshop facilitation
Advocacy
Communication
Stakeholder influence
Analytical skills
Problem-solving
Initiative
Judgment
Data utilization
Planning
Organization

Location

Australia

Work Type

Full-time
Permanent
Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

$105,577.68

Benefits

Hybrid working model (2 days in office/3 days from home)
Salary packaging up to $15,900 for living expenses
Salary packaging up to $2,650 for holiday accommodation and meals
Novated car leases
Superannuation
Purchase additional annual leave
Paid 'Me' day
Wide range of other paid leave options
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

About the Company

Australian Red Cross is part of the world’s largest humanitarian movement.
We support and empower people and communities in times of vulnerability.
We act for humanity.

Equal Opportunity

Red Cross strives to create a safe and inclusive culture with wellbeing at its centre.
We embrace diversity and welcome Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people with diverse lived experiences, abilities, genders, ethnicities, ages, and sexual orientations.
We are a child safe organisation with zero tolerance of any harm to children.
Our vision is to be trusted as the leading humanitarian organisation making a genuine difference in the lives of people and communities.