Assistant Chief Fire Officer

publicjobs; Dublin; In loco; EUR 94.000 - 108.000; Tempo pieno

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Dublin City Council invites applications for the Assistant Chief Fire Officer to lead and develop Dublin Fire Brigade's operations, fire safety and emergency services. The role requires strong leadership, strategic oversight, and collaboration across agencies to safeguard the city and region.

The successful candidate will manage multi-disciplinary teams, oversee budgets, and ensure compliance with health, safety, and governance standards within the public sector.

Competenze

• Experience in managing and delivering fire/EMS or emergency ambulance services.
• Strong governance, risk, and policy understanding within a public authority.
• Proven leadership of diverse teams and change initiatives.

Mansioni

• Manage service delivery and development of fire and EMS functions.
• Lead operations, fire safety, major emergency management, training and logistics.
• Represent Dublin Fire Brigade when required and support the Chief Fire Officer.

Conoscenze

Leadership

Project management

Change management

Inter-agency collaboration

Financial management

Health and safety knowledge

Public sector knowledge

Communication skills

Driving license

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Closing Date: 3pm, Thursday, 12th November 2026

Salary: Starting at €93,698

About the Employer:

Dublin is an international capital city and is the economic engine of the region and the State. Dublin City Council has a unique and critical role in local government: it is the largest local authority in Ireland, with 63 Elected Members representing and serving 588,000 people in the city area. It plays a pivotal role in the provision of services to the almost 1.5 million people in the Dublin Region, and in ensuring that the city can welcome and support a large number of visitors on a daily basis for employment, business, recreation and tourism.

Dublin City Council takes the lead role in shaping the strategic vision of Dublin as a dynamic and sustainable city and seeks to continually enhance the city’s attractiveness as a place in which to invest, to work, to live and to visit.

Dublin Fire Brigade provides the fully integrated Fire, Emergency Ambulance and Rescue Service for the four Dublin Local Authorities: Dublin City, South Dublin, Fingal and Dún Laoghaire- Rathdown County Councils. To facilitate the provision of this service they employ approximately 1,000 personnel working in 6 districts with 12 full-time stations, 2 retained (part-time) stations, Training Centre, East Region Communications Centre, Fire Prevention, Administration and Workshops with a fleet of 150+ vehicles.

About the Role:

The Assistant Chief Fire Officer has responsibility for managing the service delivery and development of Dublin Fire and Emergency Service functions in the areas as delegated by the Chief Fire Officer. These areas include operations (fire and EMS), fire safety, major emergency management, training, change management, quality assurance and logistics.

The Assistant Chief Fire Officer (ACFO) is a member of the management team of Dublin Fire Brigade (DFB) and will be required to contribute to all areas of DFB development. The ACFO may also be required to represent DFB and to act for the Chief Fire Officer.

About You:

• Be able to work within and lead multi-disciplined teams and have the ability to motivate, empower and encourage personnel under his/her control to achieve maximum performance and added value.
• Have experience of the management and operations of a Fire/EMS or emergency ambulance service.
• Demonstrate a strong track record and relevant management ethos and experience at a sufficiently high level, including management of change and project management.
• Have a strong, outward looking perspective and a track record of successful inter-agency collaboration and co-ordination.
• Be innovative and have a career record that demonstrates a high level of competence in the management of staff, customer orientation, conceptual and analytical thinking, initiative and the management skills necessary to lead and foster change, while optimising the contribution to the achievement of organisational goals and objectives.
• Have a good working knowledge of the legal, regulatory and governance framework within which the City Council operates and adheres to corporate policies, protocols and procedures.
• Have the ability to deploy financial resources to gain maximum benefit and output within a budgetary control framework.
• Have strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Have a satisfactory knowledge of public service organisation in Ireland and the ability to work satisfactorily in multi-authority or multi-agency settings.
• Have a good working knowledge of Health and Safety Legislation and Regulations, and their application in the fire service workplace in accordance with national and City Council’s approach to managing safety in the workplace.
• Have an understanding of the role and duties of line managers and an ability to work through the structure to achieve management objectives in the workplace.
• Possess a current unendorsed full driving license (Category B) and have access to a vehicle as they may be required to travel in the course of their duties.

The closing date for receipt of completed applications is 3pm on Thursday, 12th November, 2026.

We are committed to a policy of equal opportunity and encourage applications under all nine grounds of the Employment Equality Act.