Advisor Community Readiness

• Meaningful mahi that touches the lives of your community
• Be a part of a diverse, collaborative & supportive team
• Fixed-term opportunity to implement community readiness

Join our team for a 10-month secondment/Fixed-term until 20th of December 2026. The role will start on the 3rd of February 2026.

Mō tēnei tūranga - about the role

Reporting to the Community Risk Manager, the Advisor, Community Readiness and Recovery, role is focused on supporting the delivery of our readiness and recovery functions by establishing and maintaining key networks within the community, in addition to supporting our brigades and wider business to deliver readiness and recovery programmes in a more targeted and effective manner. This includes:

• Improve recovery and readiness capability within the brigades and the Group Managers to support the overall delivery of their strategy.
• Utilising and analysing data to make evidence-based and informed delivery decisions.
• Undertaking the delivery of readiness and recovery initiatives in line with programmes of work.

Ko tāu nā i tēnei tūranga - What you'll bring to the role:

This role will require you to proactively build and maintain strong relationships with key community stakeholders, iwi, and tangata whenua to foster collaboration and trust. With a sound understanding of community needs, identify, assess, and monitor risks to develop readiness capabilities that mitigate potential impacts.

In addition, you will provide valuable support to the Community Risk Manager in the development and implementation of recovery initiatives, ensuring that strategies are responsive, effective, and aligned with the needs of the communities we serve.

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

• Have a proven ability to plan and deliver information and educational programmes to a wide range of audiences.
• Confidence in using the MS Office suite of applications, i.e. Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• An ability to convey complex and technical information to a range of audiences.
• Establish and maintain credibility across the organisation with partners and communities of interest.
• Clean Full Driver's Licence.

Some after-hours and weekend work will be required

We are looking for an agile person who is happy working from the office some days or some days be on the road, or out and about in the community. We'll supply you with a vehicle, cell phone and the tools necessary to get your work done. After hours' work may be required.

Ko wai mātou - who are we?

Fire and Emergency New Zealand is a Crown Entity responsible for reducing unwanted fires, responding to structural and vegetation fires and other emergencies, including motor vehicle crashes, medical emergencies, hazardous substance-related incidents, and natural disasters, and supporting increased community resilience.

Our vision is to build stronger communities and protect what matters most to the people within them. We are proud to be recognised as New Zealand's most trusted public sector agency. Our values reflect what our people believe is core to who we are and the organisation we aspire to be.

• We Do the Right Thing – Kia Tika
• We Serve and Support – Manaakitanga
• We Are Better Together – Whanaungatanga
• We Strive to Improve – Auahatanga

Ko te tono mai - How to apply:

Come join us - we are excited about the future of Fire and Emergency New Zealand, and we'd love you to be part of it We value diversity as a strength and welcome applicants who can help bring a difference to our organisation.

If this sounds like you, apply now. To download a copy of our position description, please visit our vacancy page on our FireJobs website.

If you have any specific questions about this role, please email

However, please note, applications sent via email will not be accepted.

Applications close Friday, 28th of November 2025

Please note: Eligibility to work in New Zealand is mandatory for this role.