Senior Planning Advisor , Queensland Police Service

The unit engages across local, state and commonwealth government agencies, private sector and with district and local disaster management capabilities to continually enhance stakeholder relationships to contribute towards a collaborative approach to data sharing in situational awareness systems across the disaster management sector.

In a dynamic and rapidly evolving environment, the unit delivers high quality planning products and advice to contribute towards a successful Whole of Government response to Queensland communities affected by crises.

Your Key Accountabilities
The core capability requirements for this role are:

• Develop and maintain an operational planning capability to contribute towards the development of specific planning products to enhance situational awareness for decision makers.
• Contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of scientifically based and local community relevant disaster risk management data, systems, tools, and platforms. 
• Identify and analyse trends and issues that contribute to quality decision making for supporting continuous improvement and innovation across emergency management planning.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders regarding planning, policy, and procedures.
• Foster effective communication channels with internal and external stakeholders to develop and support situational awareness tools and products. 
• Coordinate training programs to support emergency management planning.
• Represent Emergency Management and Coordination Command in emergency management forums, exercises, workshops, and reviews.

Role Requirements
• Technical/ Operational/ Educational experience
- Knowledge and/or experience or qualifications in disaster management and operations.
- Knowledge, experience, or ability to acquire skills in geospatial products.
- Knowledge and experience in developing high level plans, policies and systems relating to disaster and emergency management.

• Other
- Capacity to support operational duties during disaster events. This may require work outside of normal hours (e.g. night shift), including weekends, working extended hours and may include deployment to other parts of the State. 

Applications to remain current for 12 months