The Country Fire Authority (CFA) is one of the world's largest, and most highly regarded community-based emergency services organisations.

The Manager Community Engagement leads a team responsible for building CFA’s capability and capacity to meaningfully engage and work with communities, partners and stakeholders, and build an organisational culture that supports this as a core part of service delivery. The scope of the role is wide-ranging and complex, with a broad range of stakeholders and partners, both within CFA, across government, and the Victorian community. The role encompasses a range of functions, from strategic policy development through to oversight of program design and review, and development of engagement content. The role is responsible for leading a large and diverse team and as such, the successful applicant should be highly adept and accomplished at team management, coaching and developing individuals and teams in a dynamic and changing environment.

The successful applicant will have:

• Tertiary qualification in a relevant social science and/or significant experience in leading high performance teams, in a community engagement context
• Demonstrated experience in program and project management and program development and evaluation
• Demonstrated success in drawing on evidence to identify new ways of doing things
• Demonstrated experience in promoting and driving change by applying broad influencing skills to overcome barriers and gain support
• Excellent relationship management and communication skills including the ability to develop and maintain strong collaborative partnerships.
• Effective time management skills, including the ability to meet competing deadlines and be adaptive in a rapidly changing environment.