The Details:
- Permanent Full Time | 9 day fortnight
- $99,136 pa + 12% super (level 5)
- 72.5 hour fortnight
- Hybrid, flexible working environment, including some work from home days.
- Location: Strathpine
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The City of Moreton Bay is seeking a Disaster Management Program Officer to ensure Council teams are supported through comprehensive disaster management training and support the community with emergency preparedness initiatives.
As our Disaster Management Program Officer, you will enhance Council’s disaster capability by overseeing training delivery, workforce readiness, and operational preparedness. This position serves as the central specialist ensuring compliant, effective development of personnel, systems, and partnerships supporting disaster operations and emergency response.
In this role you will have the opportunity to;
- Serve as primary advisor directing disaster learning programs, surge workforce readiness, and legislative alignment across Council and partner groups.
- Design, schedule, and execute integrated exercises and learning activities spanning classroom, simulation, tabletop, and field-based environments under the Queensland Disaster Management Training Framework .
- Conduct capability assessments, training analysis, and quality assurance covering internal teams, Local Disaster Management Group members, plus community participants.
- Maintain Local Disaster Coordination Centre (LDCC) systems, foster multi‑agency relationships, provide on‑call escalation support, and operate within LDCC functions during events.
Position Description - Disaster Management Program Officer.pdf
About you
We are seeking someone who brings strong disaster management expertise and can confidently support teams and communities through preparedness, response and recovery. You will combine technical capability with clear communication and the ability to operate effectively under pressure.
- Proven experience delivering disaster or crisis management training, including planning and leading complex exercises within the Australasian Inter-service Incident Management System frameworks and knowledge of the Queensland Disaster Management Training Framework.
- Strong stakeholder engagement, presentation, and relationship skills, with the ability to collaborate across organisations and contribute positively to team culture.
- Demonstrated capability to manage competing priorities, meet deadlines, and perform effectively during disaster activations.
Why City of Moreton Bay?
What you do with your life matters. It’s the same with your career.
We’re the third-largest council in Australia and one of the fastest-growing areas. As Australia’s newest city, we’re building something that’s never been done before: a new kind of city, inspired and empowered by a new kind of council.
This is your opportunity to develop skills and experience in a truly unique place, at a truly unique point in time.
At City of Moreton Bay, we’re focused on the vital work we do today. But we’re also focused on the future. On what can be – for our city, our Council and your career.
Here’s what you’ll love about a career with us:
- See it. To build a city of the future, first, you have to see it. The polycentric city we’re building will bring greater prosperity, sustainability and affordability to our city. This is your chance to contribute to something that’s never been done before.
- Shape it. You’ll get hands-on in a rewarding career, serving and strengthening our communities for today and tomorrow. Our work is diverse, interesting and it matters – and it’s yours to shape and own.
- Live it. Contribute to the city you and your family want to live in and enjoy the lifestyle you deserve. And if you don’t live here, you’ll still find pride and connection in so many ways with our successful, resilient team.
You’ll also enjoy a range of other benefits:
- Find a better work-life balance with a nine-day (72.5-hour) fortnight, plus a hybrid, flexible working environment with some work-from-home days.
- Negotiated salary increases locked in through our EBA - 4% in July 2026 and a further 4% in July 2027 (or CPI capped at 4.5%, whichever is greater).
- Advance your skills and career through our Study, Training And Research Scheme (STARS).
- Make your pay go further with salary packaging options on novated leases, superannuation payments, smartphones and devices.
- Prioritise your health and wellbeing with discounted health insurance, free annual flu vaccinations and our Fitness Passport Program.
- Get support when you and your family need it most with our 24/7 confidential counselling service, and Mates in Construction program.
- Our Strathpine office has local parking on site and is close to public transport networks, making for an easy commute.
Ready for a career that matters?
Join City of Moreton Bay, and help shape our city of the future.
Click on the 'Apply Now' button below to complete your online application. Please upload a current resume that demonstrates how you meet the requirements for this role. You will also have the option to add a cover letter should you wish.
As part of the recruitment process, applicants will be required to undergo a National Criminal History Check.
To obtain further details please contact our Careers team at careers@moretonbay.qld.gov.au.
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City of Moreton Bay extends across the traditional lands of the Jinibara, Kabi Kabi, and Turrbal peoples, and we acknowledge and pay respects to Traditional Custodians. We believe diversity of thought, background and experience creates better outcomes for our people and communities, and we strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people of all ages, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.
