Duties

Provide high-level specialist advice and support in the assessment of statewide bushfire risk across all tenures. Lead the development and maintenance of systems, processes, and technology associated with bushfire technical services, and undertake strategic projects across a range of bushfire risk mitigation portfolios.

• Period of Appointment: Permanent
• Hours per fortnight: 73.5 hours per fortnight
• Location: To be negotiated

Essential Requirements

Pre-Employment Checks

The Head of the State Service has determined that a person nominated for appointment to this position is to satisfy a pre-employment check before taking up the appointment, promotion or transfer. Any relevant serious criminal offence or repeated serious offences over any period, which are not mitigated by additional information, may provide grounds for declining an application for appointment. Such offences would include, but are not limited to:

• Arson and fire setting;
• Sexual offences;
• Dishonesty (e.g. theft, burglary, breaking and entering, fraud);
• Deception (e.g. obtaining an advantage by deception);
• Making false declarations;
• Violent crimes and crimes against the person;
• Malicious damage and destruction to property
• Trafficking of narcotic substance;
• False alarm raising.

Desirable Requirements

• Tertiary qualifications in an appropriate discipline.
• A current car drivers’ licence.