$145K TRP negotiable
Permanent
Parramatta

Sydney Water is a world leader in an industry that is as essential to our community as the water it delivers. We provide drinking water, recycled water, wastewater services and some stormwater services to more than four million customers in Sydney, Illawarra and the Blue Mountains. A wholly owned state corporation, Sydney Water’s vision is to be the Lifestream of Sydney for generations to come. We will be world class, delivering essential water that our Customers love, in our great city. 

We are currently seeking a Business Resilience Specialist to coordinate and deliver the Sydney Water business resilience framework so that the organisation has the capability and capacity to effectively plan, prepare, respond and recover from disruption to its people, assets, information, operations and reputation.

In this role you will:

• Coordinate and conduct Threat and Vulnerability Assessments, Business Impact Analyses, Business Continuity Plans, Emergency Management Plans and Crisis Management Plans across the organisation within the scope of accountabilities.

• Provide subject matter expertise to stakeholders to enable the deployment of a consistently integrated and chronological framework.

• Contribute to integrated reporting to Sydney Water Executive, A&R committee and the Board as required.

• Coordinate and deliver Business Resilience training to stakeholders to increase their capacity to manage disruption and establish common context for the capability development moving forward.

To be successful you will have relevant tertiary qualifications in business continuity management, emergency management, risk management or equivalent experience and 5 - 7 years' experience in a similar role for a large organisation.

Working as part of a team in a changing and challenging environment, you will have the following experience: 

• Excellent written and oral communication skills with a strong customer focus.

• Experience in networking and group interaction, while functioning as a change agent.

• Excellent conceptual and critical thinking skills combined with a demonstrated ability to solve problems, logically, practically and laterally, in real time.

• Significant recent and relevant, experience in the application of the business continuity and/or emergency management frameworks in a large decentralised/distributed service organisation or government department.

• Practical experience designing and implementing a toolsets, guidelines and training in support of framework implementation, delivery and assurance.

Please note that your application will be assessed against the job requirements of this position as listed in section 4 of the attached position description. Please ensure that your covering letter and resume outline your ability to meet these job requirements.

Sydney Water is unable to employ any former public sector employee within the period covered by their severance payment, without that public sector employee first repaying the relevant proportion of their severance pay. Sydney Water is also unable to employ any former public service senior executive within the period covered by any compensation payment under their former contract, without that former public service senior executive first repaying the relevant proportion of their compensation. This requirement applies to former employment or engagement in any capacity as staff members, contractors, consultants or employees or principals of companies engaged in contracting to a public sector agency.

You may be required to complete a declaration as part of the recruitment process.

Closing Date: 13 March 2015