NEMA Coordination and Planning Officer – National Emergency Management Agency
📌 Vacancy Fact Sheet
- Reference Number: VN-0770755
- Agency: National Emergency Management Agency
- Job Title: NEMA Coordination and Planning Officer
- Position Number: JR 141586
- Classification: APS Level 6
- Closing Date: Sunday 19 July 2026
- Job Type: Full-Time, Ongoing;Non-Ongoing
- Location: Various locations – TAS TAS
- Future Merit Locations: Various locations – ACT, Various locations – NSW,
- Salary: $99,734 – $111,701
- Office Arrangement: Flexible (Flexible working arrangements can be negotiated in)
About National Emergency Management Agency
Coordination and Planning Officers are located across Australia in metropolitan and key regional
locations. They work in partnership with states and territories to support disaster-affected
communities to build resilience, reduce risk and harm, and effectively strengthen disaster
response and recovery efforts. This is achieved by supporting NEMA through:
Response and early recovery planning
Performing the role of a NEMA Liaison Officer, including deploying to state emergency
centres and other locations, and operating effectively in high-intensity environments
Recovery and resilience program design, assurance and continuous improvement
Supporting decision-making through effective information and issues management
Providing assistance during senior official visits and associated briefings.
NEMA Liaison Officers in state operation centres coordinate national situational awareness and
support non-financial assistance requests under the Australian Government Disaster Response
Plan, in accordance with the Australian Government Crisis Management Framework.
The role may require working outside standard business hours to meet emergency management
and operational response priorities, including during periods of heightened operational activity.
Flexible working arrangements may be negotiated in accordance with NEMA’s Enterprise
Agreement. However, employees must be within reasonable travel distance of their jurisdiction’s
emergency operations centre to meet the operational requirements of the role.
Coordination and Planning Officers support Australians and jurisdictions before, during, and after
disasters. Working closely with state and territory partners, the role provides meaningful
deployment opportunities, exposure to national decisionmaking, and the chance to contribute
directly to resilience, recovery, and preparedness outcomes.
Our ideal candidate
Our ideal candidate is an experienced and adaptable professional with demonstrated capability in
coordination, planning, and stakeholder engagement within complex and fastpaced environments.
The Coordination and Planning Officer is required to have a solid understanding of emergency
management, disaster response, recovery, and resilience, and be able to work with a high degree
of autonomy to provide timely, accurate, and wellreasoned advice. They will be confident in
supporting response and early recovery planning, performing liaison roles with state and territory
partners, and contributing to effective information and issues management under pressure.
Strong written and interpersonal communication skills, including experience preparing high quality
briefings, reports, and correspondence for senior leaders, and proven ability to build productive
relationships across governments and stakeholder agencies. The successful candidate will be
calm, resilient, and flexible, with a willingness to work outside standard hours and deploy across
jurisdictions when operationally required whilst maintaining awareness of the broader strategic,
political, and operational considerations impacting outcomes.
We encourage applications from First Nations people, people with disability, LGBTQIA+ people,
people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, mature age people and people from
other diverse backgrounds. We are committed to providing a working environment that values
diversity and inclusion and supports staff to reach their full potential.
Duties
- Develop, foster and maintain productive working relationships with internal and external key
- stakeholders, including Australian Government, state and territory agencies, and teams
- across NEMA
- Exercise sound judgment and apply expertise under limited directions to make decisions in
- accordance with relevant legislation, policy, best practice principles, and the agency’s
- operating procedures
- Work independently under limited direction, applying established priorities, practices, and
- methodologies to deliver quality outcomes
- Prepare draft reports, briefing papers, ministerial correspondence and discussion papers for
- review by senior executives
- Maintain awareness of longer-term strategic, political and operational outcomes for the
- agency and/or program, and assess impacts on the work area
- Provide advice and technical expertise in specific areas of project and program activities
- Monitor changes in the broader work environment that may impact work objectives.
- Role requirements/qualifications
- Current Australian driver’s licence or the ability to obtain one
- Demonstrated stakeholder engagement experience, including the ability to build and sustain
- productive relationships, manage competing priorities, and communicate effectively with a
- range of internal and external stakeholders
- Sound understanding of Commonwealth, state and territory emergency management
- policies, programs and frameworks, and the issues facing regional Australia, or the ability to
- acquire this knowledge.
Eligibility / Notes
- To be eligible to work with the NEMA you must:
- Be an Australian Citizen
- Fulfil the Agency’s minimum requirements by satisfactorily answering all screening questions
- during the application process and successfully undergo a National Police Check
- Obtain and maintain a Baseline Vetting (AGSVA) security clearance
- Satisfy a probation period (if applicable)
- Undergo a health assessment (if applicable).
How to Apply
Position Contact Bronwyn Papandrea, –
Agency Recruitment Site https://jobs.homeaffairs.gov.au/job-invite/141586/
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that the names of successful applicants will also be notified in all formats of the electronic Public Service Gazette
applicants found suitable may be offered similar employment opportunities by other Australian Public Service agencies
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