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
Department: Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water | Location: Parramatta | Salary: $129,464 to $142,665 plus superannuation | Closing: 20 July 2026 at 11:55pm
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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.
Use the cover letter to take the reader inside one preparedness, response or recovery example. Explain the risk you recognised, the judgement you applied, the agencies or industry partners you brought together and what your work protected or improved. Evidence of on-call work, urgent advice, exercises or decisions made under pressure will help the panel picture you operating in an essential-service environment.
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
Organisation: NSW Reconstruction Authority | Location: Lismore and Far North Coast | Grade: Clerk Grade 7/8, $116,981 to $129,492 plus superannuation | Closing: 20 July 2026 at 11:59pm
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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.
Your cover letter should show what happened after you engaged the stakeholders. A useful example could cover a recovery initiative, community program or multi-agency project where you clarified responsibilities, produced a brief or status report, managed resources and kept delivery moving when circumstances changed. Make the outcome concrete, particularly where your coordination improved access, confidence, resilience or the quality of a decision.
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
Organisation: NSW Treasury, Risk, Compliance and Audit Division | Location: Sydney CBD | Grade: Clerk Grade 9/10, $133,348 to $146,945 plus superannuation and leave loading | Closing: 21 July 2026 at 9:59am
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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.
The resume and online pre-screening answers need to show the path between analysis and action. Choose examples where a business impact assessment, exercise, control review or interpretation of policy changed a decision, strengthened a treatment plan or exposed a dependency before it became a larger problem. Be precise about your method, the stakeholders you advised and the improvement in readiness or governance.
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
Organisation: NSW State Emergency Service | Location: Goulburn and South Eastern Zone | Grade: Clerk Grade 3/4, $89,829 to $95,482 plus superannuation and field allowance | Closing: 24 July 2026 at 11:55pm
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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.
The two targeted responses are the best place to demonstrate how you set priorities and solve problems with other people. Use an example where you assessed urgency, balanced safety and operational impact, coordinated staff or suppliers and followed the issue through to completion. The one-page cover letter can then connect that evidence to your interest in supporting an emergency-service workforce.
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
Organisation: NSW Police Force, Southern Region Operations | Location: Goulburn | Grade: Clerk Grade 7/8, $116,981 to $129,492 plus superannuation | Closing: 26 July 2026 at 11:59pm
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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.
Use the target responses to demonstrate disciplined coordination in a complex environment. A strong example will show how you prepared advice, confirmed responsibilities, maintained accurate plans or minutes and followed up actions across organisations with different pressures. The two-page cover letter should reinforce your knowledge of emergency-management arrangements and your ability to communicate clearly when the audience ranges from operational staff to senior committee members.
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
Organisation: Fire and Rescue NSW | Location: Sydney Region | Grade: Clerk Grade 9/10, package up to $161,698 | Closing: 14 August 2026 at 11:55pm
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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.
The initial application relies on the resume, so lead with achievements that show scale, ownership and adoption rather than listing project duties. Include examples of continuity planning, capability uplift, digital tools, reporting or change where operational teams used what you delivered and readiness improved as a result. If shortlisted, the later video interview will be the opportunity to explain those decisions and outcomes within the advertised four-day completion window.
Application requirements
- Up-to-date resume
Later assessment stage
- Video interview if shortlisted, with the advertised four-day completion window
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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