Principal Advisor or Senior Advisor Local Planning x 2 at Fire and Emergency New Zealand, Wellington - Wairarapa

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

About you

We have two great opportunities for an experienced planner to join our planning team. This is a new role for FENZ, and you will be instrumental in helping establish a national framework and processes for local planning, and to communicate and engage across the organisation to implement these frameworks with various stakeholders including regional staff and local advisory committees.

You will help to lead the establishment of local planning within Fire and Emergency NZ, you will help to design and document the framework, tools and processes needed for the function to be successful. You will help design the principals and methods for local needs conversations, and provide consistent frameworks or processes for the business to gather and share insights from Local Planning conversations, and integrate this information into existing business planning processes and national strategy development processes.

We are looking for someone with a background in planning in a government context, with demonstrated experience in process management and improvement. You'll be able to assimilate complex information and communicate clearly, and credibly to a wide range of audiences in a clear and concise manner. You'll be able to demonstrate how planning works in an organisation from the local level to the strategic level. You'll be able to design tools, systems and processes to make local planning work for our people in a local area and link this to national strategic processes.

About us

Fire and Emergency New Zealand was set up under new legislation in July 2017, combining 40 urban and rural fire services and 14,000 people. We became one national emergency management organisation to keep New Zealanders, their property and our unique environment safe.

We respond to structure and vegetation fires. And while the core role of firefighters is to put out fires, it is much more than that.

We rescue people involved in transport accidents or other incidents, urban search and rescue, deal with dangerous substances, weather events and natural disasters.

Our firefighters educate communities to prepare for emergencies, prevent and mitigate them, and teach them how to recover more quickly when they do happen.

We also assist other agencies in the response to medical emergencies, maritime incidents and vehicle accidents.

Nothing is more important to us than our people - he waka eke noa.

If you think you have what it takes to join us on our journey, we would love to hear from you.

Interested in applying?

For more information about this position please go to our website www.fireandemergency.nz and download a copy of the position description and apply.

Applications close Sunday, 5 February 2020.