Advisor Risk Reduction

Join our team and provide risk reduction advice and expertise to support communities across the Te Kei Region, based in the Otago District. Mō tēnei tūranga - about the role We currently have an exciting opportunity for an Advisor Risk Reduction to join our busy team. Reporting to the Community Risk Manager, you'll be responsible for undertaking the delivery, supporting, and advising on risk reduction functions and activities across the built and natural environments.
- This role includes using data, information and intelligence to monitor and review risk reduction delivery and compliance activity i.e. building safety, fire control and take remedial action.
- Deliver risk reduction technical programmes and initiatives that are aligned and consistent with national programmes, policies, processes, tools, and systems.
- Work closely with group managers and brigades to develop and enhance their understanding of the 4 R's of emergency management.

Provide advice and expertise on the management of risks relating to all fire types in both built and natural environments (for example, house, factory, bush, and grass fires).Deliver risk reduction, compliance, and enforcement functions across both natural and built environments. This role will also require being on call and the occasional work during weekends or outside of ‘normal' business hours. Ko tāu nā i tēnei tūranga - What you'll bring to the role:

- Ability to establish credibility with Iwi and Māori communities, as key stakeholders in Fire and Emergency's work
- Adept at building collaborative working relationships with a wide range of people and organisations

**To be successful in this role, we'd expect you will**:

- Have strong communication skills to listen and understand, and to convey complex and technical information, to a wide range of people and organisations
- Hold a current clean driver's license and ‘clean slate' criminal history (essential)
- Be an agile person who is happy working from the office some days or some days be on the road, travelling to training or out and about in the community
- Have experience working in public safety, risk reduction, compliance, stakeholder or resource management or a regulatory position
- Understand, and behave in line with, our organsiational values (below).