Description:
Community Recovery has lead responsibility for human and social recovery, supporting communities to be resilient and recover from natural disasters or traumatic events. The unit is responsible for the delivery of human and social recovery, emotional wellbeing and practical supports through a network of government and non-government partner agencies. Further information in relation to Community Recovery can be found here: https://www.qld.gov.au/community/disasters-emergenciesThe Director of the Business Administration Team is a critical leadership role, responsible for overseeing key operational and strategic functions to support the department’s efforts.
Please refer to role profile for full details.
As a Director, You Will
- Providing expert, authoritative, and strategic advice to senior leadership on a range of human and social recovery matters. including workforce, ICT, logistics and business services arrangements (such as the Ready Reserve program) that support effective community recovery operations.
- Providing guidance and strategic advice to support organisational development, drive the organisation's transformational strategy roadmap, and foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement with the aim of workforce, ICT, logistics and business services functions are aligned with recovery priorities.
- Establishing and delivering strategies to optimise business processes, enhance service delivery and mitigate risk. overseeing core business services (financial management, procurement and administrative support), ICT systems and tools, and logistics frameworks (including workforce, ICT, logistics and business services risks) to ensure efficient and resilient operations before, during and after disaster events
- Accountable for the planning, intelligence and reporting function, delivering reliable and high-quality information and advice to support strategic decision making before, during and after a disaster event or critical incident. including regular reports and updates to senior executives on the performance and outcomes of business services functions
- Developing and delivering learning and development initiatives that support a skilled and capable workforce and are responsive to the complex requirements of the branch's diverse staff cohorts including capability for workforce deployment, training and rostering to meet recovery needs (for example through Ready Reserve and other recovery workforce arrangements).
- Driving the development and delivery of effective internal and external communication strategies, promoting brand awareness and enabling delivery of trusted, timely and accurate messaging across a diverse range of stakeholders about community recovery operations, workforce readiness and service availability.
- Engaging with a range of stakeholders including across all levels of government, non-government social services sector, and managing contracts and Memorandums of Understanding related to ICT, logistics, grants and other business services that enable recovery operations.
- Leading and managing projects that support community recovery resilience strategies, including the application of project management techniques to improve workforce deployment, ICT capability, logistics operations and business service delivery.
- Overseeing and preparing complex reports, correspondence, briefing notes and submission for senior management, the Minister, Cabinet and other diverse audiences on recovery operations, workforce, ICT, logistics and business services performance and outcomes.
- Providing guidance, coaching, ongoing assessment and feedback on performance to ensure staff understand and meet expectations relating to workforce, ICT, logistics and business services during disaster events.
- Proactively manage the work performance and personal conduct of your staff.
- Other duties as directed and required.
Please Submit The Following
- Resume and minimum of 2 referees including their email addresses. At least one referee should have a thorough knowledge of your work over the past two years as your manager or supervisor; and
- A statement not more than two pages, that summarises your skills, experience and achievements against the leadership competencies and duties/responsibilities of the position.
Occupational group Executive
16 Feb 2026;
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