Director

Community Recovery has lead responsibility for human and social recovery, supporting communities to be resilient and recover from natural disasters or traumatic events. Your key role, in a job share arrangement, is to lead a number of work teams that support and enable the Community Recovery workforce to deliver key human and social recovery and resilience activities.

You will support the Executive Director to drive the branch’s strategic and transformational change agenda and lead strategic engagement and stakeholder relationship management, be responsible for the development and delivery of effective internal and external communication strategies, drive learning and development initiatives that support a skilled and capable workforce, and ensure planning, intelligence and reporting functions enable proactive and informed strategic decision-making and business planning.

As a Director, you will be:

• Providing expert, authoritative, and strategic advice to senior leadership on a range of human and social recovery matters.
• Providing guidance and strategic advice to support organisational development, drive the organisation's transformational strategy roadmap, and foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Establishing and delivering strategies to optimise business processes, enhance service delivery and mitigate risk.
• Accountable for the planning, intelligence and reporting function, delivering reliable and high-quality information and advice to support strategic decision making before, during and after a disaster event or critical incident.
• Developing and delivering learning and development initiatives that support a skilled and capable workforce, and are responsive to the complex requirements of the branch's diverse staff cohorts.
• Driving the development and delivery of effective internal and external communication strategies, promoting brand awareness and enabling delivery of trusted, timely and accurate messaging across a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Engaging with a range of stakeholders including across all levels of government, non-government social services sector, and managing contracts and Memorandums of Understanding.
• Leading and managing projects that support community recovery resilience strategies, including the application of project management techniques.
• Overseeing and preparing complex reports, correspondence, briefing notes and submission for senior management, the Minister, Cabinet and other diverse audiences.
• Providing guidance, coaching, ongoing assessment and feedback on performance.
• Proactively manage the work performance and personal conduct of your staff.
• Completing other duties as directed and required.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.