The Office of the Chief Officer provides strategic leadership, direction, advice and management of the Queensland State Emergency Services to achieve organisational outcomes, sustained volunteerism and capability service delivery through the delivery of programs and plans to deliver an effective Disaster and Emergency Services Agency. The Office also provides leadership to establish critical paths, monitor group performance and processes and manage risks as they relate to deliverables and milestones.

You will provide high quality executive, governance, and operational support to the Chief Officer in relation to matters impacting across the service.

Please refer to role profile for full details.

Job details

Your key accountabilities

The core capability requirements for this role are:

• Provide confidential executive support and high-level advice, options, and support in relation to existing and emerging strategic and operational issues to support informed decision making and planning, and improve service delivery.
• Prepare, contribute to and quality check complex briefings, reports and submissions ensuring actions and priorities are addressed and accurate and appropriate replies are formulated to ensure consistent workflow is achieved and deadlines are met.
• Lead, plan and implement significant projects and initiatives as directed, and participate in departmental initiatives to support ongoing improvement strategies, and ensure timeframes and deliverables are achieved.
• Liaise and negotiate for and on behalf of the Chief Officer and SES, including to represent the Chief Officer at meetings, and internal and external forums as required to promote SES strategy and planning initiatives and achieve quality outcomes.
• Build and sustain partnerships and networks with stakeholders, and actively identify opportunities to engage these stakeholders on initiatives to effectively liaise and negotiate agreed outcomes on difficult and complex agreements, projects and program issues.
• Develop, implement and review executive support systems and procedures to identify business enhancements, while providing leadership to the executive support resources to maximise business improvement initiatives.
• Lead and manage a small team, fostering teamwork and managing human resource activities including developing of staff through performance, planning and review.

Role Requirements

Mandatory - Nil
Qualification - Nil
Technical/ Operational/ Educational experience - Demonstrated experience in providing confidential, high level executive support.
Other - It is expected the incumbent will participate in an out-of-hours on-call roster during emergency operations. This may require work outside of normal hours (e.g. night shift), including weekends, working extended hours and may include travel to rural and remote communities, intrastate or interstate travel as necessary and/or deployment activities to other parts of the state.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

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Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• 702137-26-Role Description (Word, 773KB)
  Role Description
  
  702137-26-Applicant Guide non-Police (Word, 227KB)
  Information Package for Applicants