Manager Community Resilience / Group Recovery

We're looking for an exceptional people leader and systems thinker to take on a critical role in Wellington's emergency management leadership team, based in our Thorndon office. This role is not just about managing processes-it's about leading people in high-pressure situations, ensuring teams are prepared, capable, and ready to respond when it matters most.

About the role :

As the Manager, Community Resilience / Group Recovery, your focus will be on building, leading, and supporting high-performing teams to enhance community resilience and strengthen the region's emergency preparedness for disaster recovery. You'll be responsible for developing and implementing evidence-based community capacity building initiatives, operational systems, and recovery strategies, ensuring that when disaster strikes, our people are ready to act. This role involves regular travel around the region.

You will also serve as the Group Recovery Manager, a statutory leadership role under the CDEM Act 2002. In the Transition to Recovery, you will lead, coordinate, and inspire council teams and partners, making decisive calls in high-stakes situations and ensuring a unified, effective recovery across the region.

This is your opportunity to lead from the front, ensuring that our region is ready to respond to and recover from any emergency. If you are someone who leads with kindness and compassion, works to make the world a better place and thrives in ambiguous high-stakes environments we want to hear from you. This is your opportunity for a career like no other.

Responsibilities :

• Lead people to perform at their best - Develop, Inspire, and support, and lead teams in BAU and in stressful environments.
• Build systems - Ensure Community Resilience initiatives meet the needs of our diverse communities and our Recovery processes and platforms function smoothly and the products and services we offer meet the needs of our customers
• Foster meaningful partnerships - - Collaborate with councils, mana whenua, NGOs, emergency services, private sector government agencies
• Make a real impact - Our work protects lives and livelihoods. This will be one of the most meaningful jobs you'll ever have.
• Varied and dynamic role - No two days are the same in this fast-moving, high-pressure environment.

Skills and experience required :

What we offer :

Come help treasure and grow our rohe together

Our rohe and its lands, waterways, animals, plants and people can only grow stronger if they are nurtured.

To join our team is to step up and commit to playing an active part in this important mahi. That means restoring nature, connecting people and places, reducing environmental impacts, and helping this rohe and its people prosper.

We are committed to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and support mana whenua as Kaitiaki. We're also part of a collective movement alongside our community members whose hopes for the future of this region are just as high as your own.

How to apply :

Greater Wellington is proud to be a member of Diversity Works. We value diversity and are committed to an inclusive, flexible, and supportive workplace. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds and welcome the unique talent and experience you will bring to our team.

Please note that applications close : 5.00pm, Sunday, 5 October 2025.

The remuneration for this position, inclusive of all benefits, is $167,749 to $251,623 with a midpoint of $209,686. Starting remuneration will depend on the skills and experience of the successful applicant.

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