Coordination Centre - Management Support

Overview

The focus of this role is on coordinating and supporting the various teams of people within the Emergency Coordination Centre (ECC) or a local Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) during a response.

As a CDEM trained volunteer, you could be asked to do a variety of office-based tasks such as writing reports, rostering staff, sorting and answering emails, managing and communicating requests, data entry, IT support or collating information.

What we can offer you

A large selection of ongoing training opportunities.

Emergency Management experience and skills.

Rare opportunities to deploy to other areas of the country during an emergency event.

Various interesting events and relationship building opportunities.

The opportunity to train and progress into managing one of the functions within our coordination centre.

A chance to be part of something important and helping your community during a time of emergency.

Requirements

We are looking for reliable and trustworthy people who possess personnel management skills, are 18 years of age or older and have a minimum standard of conversational English.

Be prepared to participate in our free emergency management training.

To best suit this role, you would need

Excellent written and verbal communication.

High computing proficiency and data entry.

Structured approach & positive attitude.

Ability to work in a high-pressure team environment.

Emotional intelligence and people oriented.

Health & Safety conscious.

Self-management and flexibility.

An interest in natural hazards and emergency response.

A Ministry of Justice background check is required for this role.

Time commitment

An open introduction event outside office hours to enable you to decide if this role is something you are interested in and to meet some of the staff you could be working and training with.

If you are still wanting to join our volunteering team, and once you have completed your application, you would need to complete a 2 hour online foundational training followed by a 2 day face-to-face Intermediate training course.

Further events, exercises and training are available and highly recommended.

NOTE :

Most training and events will happen at our Hamilton office location.

Getting started

The first step is to express your interest by applying directly to the organisation.

You will then be able to find out more about the role and how to proceed.

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