About the role
In this role, you will monitor and report on the City of Greater Geelong’s Corporate Emergency Management Plan, ensuring all documentation is current and compliant. Additionally, engage with Emergency Control Organisation representatives across the City’s locations, offering guidance and assistance in reviewing their emergency management plans and structures to ensure adherence to relevant standards, as well as provide support to the wider Health, Safety, and Wellbeing (HSW) Team as directed.

Work type: Temporary full time (12 months)
Classification: Band 5 $76,355 - $86,617 pa plus super

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide general administrative and business support to HSW and the wider team as directed.
• Provide assistance and guidance for nominated training programs related to corporate emergency preparedness and management, including completion of these programs.
• Provide guidance and assistance in the completion of evacuation drill exercises in all City occupied buildings, ensuring that these are completed within specified time frames, including post-drill assessments to recognise and close any gaps that were identified.
• Work closely with relevant stakeholders to action identified emergency compliance gaps at all City sites.
• Maintain all operational aspects of the internal compliance monitoring schedule for all of the City’s occupied locations including relevant inspections and checklists.
• Provide assistance and guidance in the review, update and publishing of Evacuation Diagrams at all relevant City locations as per Australian Standards.

About you
To be successful in this role, you will have demonstrated administrative experience in an office environment, with experience in word processing, spreadsheet and data base software packages, accounts payable and receivable, and data entry. Some exposure to emergency management and/or safety experience desirable.

Essential Experience:

• Strong and proven report writing capabilities, excellent verbal communication and influencing skills.
• Ability to coordinate training programs within a multi facet organisation
• Strong customer service focus.
• Ability to achieve objectives within set timeframes whilst adhering to relevant standards.
• High level relationship building, communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to deal with a diverse range of stakeholders with a broad range of expectations and client needs and the ability to convey and effectively impart information and negotiate and influence outcomes.
• Current Working with Children Card (employee).
• Preferred candidates will be required to undergo a National Police Check as part of the recruitment process (funded by the City).

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Child Safety Responsibilities   
We are committed to being a child-safe organisation and have zero-tolerance for child abuse. We have specific policies, procedures, and mandatory training in place to support employees, volunteers, and contractors to achieve and adhere to these commitments. Please read our Child Safe Standards Management Policy.  

Diversity and Inclusion  
At the City we want a workforce that reflects the community we live in. We welcome and embrace everyone, all people with their own unique experiences, and support and encourage all our employees to do their best work, have equal access to opportunities and a just working environment. For this reason, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from First Nations people, people with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, from the LGBTQIA+ community, people with disability and people of all genders, ages and diverse experience.  

Create our future together at the City of Greater Geelong
Join the City of Greater Geelong, a community-focused workplace on Wadawurrung Country. We deliver over 130 services to our growing population, striving to make our city a great place to live, work, and study. Our central location for Central Geelong-based employees is the Civic Precinct, Wurriki Nyal, a modern, sustainable, and inclusive workplace, along with our outreach locations.

If you're passionate about inclusivity and community, apply now – we’d love to meet you!

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Applications and Enquiries

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Enquiries: Katie Hogg | Corporate Emergency Lead | Katie.Hogg@geelongcity.vic.gov.au

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