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Current NSW emergency management jobs to consider
These six roles solve different emergency-management problems: protecting energy supply, coordinating community recovery, strengthening enterprise continuity, maintaining operational assets, supporting regional emergency committees and improving organisational resilience. They sit across the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, the NSW Reconstruction Authority, NSW Treasury, the NSW State Emergency Service, NSW Police Force and Fire and Rescue NSW.
The best fit depends on the setting in which you have already made decisions, coordinated stakeholders or improved readiness. The written tasks also vary: some roles ask for a resume and cover letter, while others include target questions, online pre-screening or a later video interview. Use the individual guide to plan the evidence and document structure, then read the official advert before you apply.
In this guide
- Senior Energy Emergency Management Officer, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
- Coordination Officer, NSW Reconstruction Authority
- Senior Risk and Business Continuity Advisor, NSW Treasury
- Asset & Facilities Support Officer, NSW State Emergency Service
- Regional Emergency Management Officer, NSW Police Force
- Senior Project Officer Business Planning, Fire and Rescue NSW
Senior Energy Emergency Management Officer
The Senior Energy Emergency Management Officer works where energy security and emergency management meet. The role is concerned with disruptions that can affect essential infrastructure, businesses and communities, so the useful experience here is broader than incident response alone. Applicants need to show that they can assess emerging risks, interpret incomplete information and help different organisations reach a practical course of action.
Application requirements
Current resume; Cover letter expressing interest and suitability.
What to highlight
Emergency preparedness, response and recovery; Energy or essential-service disruption risk; Cross-agency communication and mentoring.
Coordination Officer
The Coordination Officer sits close to communities rebuilding after disasters in Lismore and the Far North Coast. Recovery work rarely moves in a straight line: councils, local organisations, service providers and residents can be working with different priorities, information and timeframes. The role needs someone who can listen carefully, bring those perspectives together and turn discussion into coordinated action.
Application requirements
Current resume; Cover letter detailing relevant knowledge, skills and experience.
What to highlight
Community and disaster-recovery coordination; Reports, briefs, budgets and status updates; Competing priorities and resilience outcomes.
Senior Risk and Business Continuity Advisor
The Senior Risk and Business Continuity Advisor is an enterprise advisory role rather than a frontline response position. NSW Treasury needs someone who can examine critical services, controls and dependencies, then explain what the analysis means for leaders responsible for continuity and risk. Strong experience will combine technical discipline with the confidence to challenge assumptions and recommend workable improvements.
Application requirements
Up-to-date resume; Online pre-screening questions.
What to highlight
Risk and control assessments; Business impact analysis and exercising; Practical advice based on legislation, policy or standards.
Asset & Facilities Support Officer
The Asset & Facilities Support Officer helps keep NSW SES premises, fleet and equipment ready for volunteers and operational teams across the South Eastern Zone. The work is practical and dispersed: maintenance requests compete for attention, contractors need clear direction and asset records have to remain dependable across different locations. Applicants should show steady operational judgement and an understanding of how a delayed repair or inaccurate record can affect service readiness.
Application requirements
Cover letter , maximum 1 page; Resume, maximum 4 pages; Two targeted responses, maximum 1 page each.
What to highlight
Facilities, fleet or asset coordination; Maintenance prioritisation and records; Relationships that resolved service issues.
Regional Emergency Management Officer
The Regional Emergency Management Officer supports the formal coordination machinery behind emergency management in Southern Region. That includes the REOCON, Local Emergency Management Committees and the Regional Emergency Management Committee across planning, preparation, response and recovery. The role calls for someone who understands how agencies, councils and communities fit together, and who can keep advice, records and agreed actions moving between meetings and operational periods.
Application requirements
Cover letter , maximum 2 pages; Current resume; Two target responses, maximum 500 words each.
What to highlight
Emergency-management arrangements and committee support; Advice, plans, minutes and operational documentation; Work across police, councils, agencies and communities.
Senior Project Officer Business Planning
The Senior Project Officer Business Planning turns continuity and resilience frameworks into plans that Fire and Rescue NSW teams can use. The work combines business impact analysis, risk, project delivery and organisational change, with a clear operational test: arrangements need to remain useful when services are disrupted. Applicants should show that they can move between strategic planning and the practical work of implementation.
Application requirements
Up-to-date resume.
What to highlight
Business continuity and resilience frameworks; Project, change and stakeholder delivery; Reporting, digital tools and capability uplift.
Final check before you apply
Use the individual guide to organise your examples, then return to the official job ad for the final closing time, eligibility conditions, portal fields and role-description details. Keep each application centred on the emergency-management problem that role is solving, whether that is essential-service disruption, community recovery, enterprise continuity, asset readiness, regional coordination or organisational resilience.
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