Senior Officer - Resilience (NAT)

Australian Red Cross; Sydney; Híbrido; AUD 70.000 - 110.000; A tiempo parcial

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Hybrid work model

Descripción de la vacante

Australian Red Cross is seeking a Senior Officer – Resilience for an 18‑month contract (part time, 0.8 FTE). This hybrid role combines two days in the Sydney office with three days work from home, contributing to nationwide resilience initiatives.

You will develop resources, deliver training, and lead community-led resilience activities while advocating for humanitarian needs and strengthening cross-sector collaboration.

Formación

• Experience in disaster resilience and community development.
• Proven ability to develop and deliver training, workshops, and resources.
• Excellent advocacy and communication skills; able to influence stakeholders.
• Experience in monitoring, evaluation and reporting with impact measurement.

Responsabilidades

• Develop and implement resources, training, tools and workshops to boost disaster resilience nationwide.
• Conduct activities at individual, household and community levels to strengthen preparedness.
• Encourage inclusive community engagement in resilience-building initiatives.
• Advocate for humanitarian and psychosocial needs and preparedness actions.
• Influence resilience practices within the organisation through collaboration and best-practice sharing.
• Build and maintain partnerships across the emergency management sector.

Conocimientos

Disaster resilience

Community development

Training delivery

Advocacy & communication

Monitoring & evaluation

Descripción del empleo

• 18 month contract – part time hours 0.8FTE
• Hybrid working arrangement, 2 days in office 3 days from home

About Red Cross

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.

About the role

The Senior Officer – Resilience is responsible for developing and enabling targeted support to individuals, households, and communities across the nation to ensure they are strong, resilient, and capable of anticipating, responding to, and recovering well from disasters and other crises.

Day to day you will

• Develop and implement evidence-based and best-practice resources, training, tools, and workshops to enhance disaster resilience nationwide, particularly through scaling of community-led resilience teams.
• Conduct activities at individual, household, and community levels to fortify resilience and disaster preparedness.
• Encourage community engagement and participation in resilience-building activities, ensuring inclusive and broad-based involvement.
• Advocate for humanitarian and psychosocial needs, emphasizing the importance of preparedness actions to bolster community resilience prior to disasters.
• Influence the practice and approach to disaster resilience within the organisation through collaborative relationships and shared best practices.
• Establish and maintain collaborative relationships across the emergency management sector, engaging with stakeholders to promote and enhance disaster resilience initiatives.

What you will bring

• Strong knowledge, expertise and understanding of disaster resilience and community development principles.
• Proven ability to successfully develop and deliver engaging and effective training, workshops, and resources.
• Excellent advocacy and communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders.
• Experience in monitoring, evaluation, and reporting to assess the effectiveness of resilience-building activities and initiatives, with a focus on continuous improvement and impact measurement

Benefits that act for you wile you act for humanity

Work flexibility: Australian Red Cross operates under ahybrid working model which includes two days on-site and three days from homeFinancial wellbeing: In addition to your salary, you can take advantage of salary packaging that could provide you with a great way to reduce the amount of tax you pay - and get more from your salary. You can salary package up to $15,900 for living expenses (such as rent, groceries, utility bills); up to $2,650 for holiday accommodation and meals when dining out; Novated car leases; superannuation and purchase additional annual leave.

Life, Health & Wellbeing: You can access a paid ‘Me’ day just for you and a wide range of other paid leave options. You can also tap into specialist health and wellbeing advice.

Career development:Access to ongoing learning, training, and development.

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