Emergency Preparedness and Response Advisor

There’s something special about spending your days alongside like-minded people, just as committed to purposeful work as you. At Save the Children Australia, we attract bright and big-hearted people who are inspired to make a difference. Together, we are fearless in our pursuit of making lasting change for the children and communities who need it most.

Save the Children and 54 reasons: A place where your purpose matters.

It takes all types of personalities and talents to drive our organisation– yours included. We value a healthy work-life balance and ensure our people feel connected to each other and our impact. Learn from inspiring people and grow from a connection to our strong local and global networks. From our programs to our support services - this is the place to realise your purpose.

A place to make a difference:

Here you’re empowered to make a difference in children’s lives by learning, sharing and collaborating to find new ways to solve problems. In this full time, permanent role, you’ll work as a part of our Humanitarian team to help us create lasting change for children everywhere. The Emergency Preparedness and Response Advisor plays an important role in delivering on our vision of a better world for children. Whether it’s supporting our teams in the Pacific to deliver high quality humanitarian responses or engaging across our global humanitarian portfolio you’ll be contributing to our commitment to children in Australia, the Pacific and around the world.

You will make a difference by:

· Supporting humanitarian preparedness and response capacity in the Pacific

· Providing technical support on disaster risk reduction and anticipatory action programming

· Solidifying our response domestic emergency approach aligned to our greatest technical strengths

· Engaging on key issues across our global humanitarian portfolio

· Engaging with key stakeholders both internal and external to Save the Children to support quality humanitarian programming

A place to feel valued:

Your deep expertise in humanitarian preparedness and response is invaluable. We recognise your contribution and provide you the support to ensure you can bring your best, knowing here you have the space and opportunity to grow. Bringing your best every day, means:

· Provide experience in humanitarian preparedness and response programming

· A strong understanding of current and emerging policy issues in emergency response work

· Strong interpersonal skills and a commitment to working in a team environment

· Highly developed networking, relationship building, influencing, and negotiating skills

A place to belong:

It takes all types of people to do the challenging work we do. We are diverse personalities, backgrounds and talents, embracing our differences as one strong and united team. We see and celebrate the unique value you bring to our organisation, and offer a range of rewards for your effort, including:

· A modern, up to date working space. Or the opportunity to work from home (WFH), or both!

· Support for workplace wellness, including access to our free, confidential Employee Wellbeing Program

· Celebrate and feel supported in your diversity. We’ve established internal networks to support our diverse workforce, foster inclusion and allow you to bring your whole self to work (if that’s what you want!) (Pride@Save, Parents and Carers@Save, Mental Wellness Alliance, Disability@Save, First Nations Advisory Commitee).

· Full salary packaging benefits (please use this link to see how much this benefit could mean to you!)

· Extra leave to use in a range of ways to ensure you’re able to perform at your optimum

Follow this link for the full list of our employee benefits.

Does this sound like the place for you?

We’d love to hear from you. Submit your cover letter and resume below.

Applications close 4pm AEST, Wednesday 31st July 2024.

Position Description – Emergency Preparedness and Response Advisor

For more information about this position, please contact the People & Culture team at people.culture@savethechildren.org.au. Or for more information about a career at Save, visit our Careers Page.

*We understand the need for work-life balance. We've advertised this role as Full time, Permanent but if you're looking for something different, please let us know. We offer flexible hours, remote working, and individual flexibility plans to ensure we’re providing you a personalised career.

We have tested our application process with diverse groups in mind, with the intent to ensure it's straightforward and accessible for all to apply. Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and improve our ability to reach our most vulnerable client groups. But we also know there is no one-size fits-all when it comes to recruitment - so if we didn’t quite hit the mark for you, please let us know at people.culture@savethechildren.org.au. We’re dedicated to ensuring Save the Children Australia is a place where everyone can feel supported – no matter your race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexuality, neurodiversity, culture and beliefs.

Save the Children Australia is a child-safe organisation. All employees are required to undergo a National Police Check, a Working with Children Check, and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct. We also support the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. You can read about the Scheme and our commitment to Safeguarding here.

Save the Children is committed to providing and maintaining a safe working environment for its employees and client groups, consistent with our obligations under OH&S legislation.

If you are having any issues with uploading your application for this role, please contact people.culture@savethechildren.org.au for further support.