• An exciting opportunity for a dynamic and experienced Safety and Emergency Director to use your expertise in driving a positive safety culture in a friendly place to work with others very willing to collaborate on positive safety initiatives.
• The Vinnies's culture is diverse and inclusive, focussing on caring for people, including our employees, volunteers and members as well as our clients and residents.
• Leverage off your safety management expertise to design and integrate an enterprise-wide best practice safety and emergency management system in a large and complex organisation.
• Not-for-profit salary packaging tax-free benefits, increasing your take-home pay!

About the organisation

The St Vincent de Paul Society is a leading provider of community support services, whose mission  is to shape a more just and compassionate society.

We believe our employees are key to our success and offer Learning and Development programs to enhance and grow your career across a range of teams and services. Our staff are recognised for their achievements and are offered promotional opportunities on a meritocracy basis within a collegiate and values driven team environment and culture.

Your new role:

Director, Safety and Emergency Management is a vital role in managing the Society's work health and safety function, adding to the Society's safety culture and performance:

• Implementing the Society's emergency management functions to support organisational resilience.
• Supporting the Society's compliance with relevant legislation to maintain a safe and compliant workplace.

Reporting to the Executive Director, Corporate Services, you will lead the development of policies, programs, and initiatives for continuous improvement around safety and crisis/emergency management, designed to safeguard assets and mitigate risk throughout the organisation.

Your responsibilities:

• Leading the development and implementation, monitoring and reporting o the Safety and Emergency Management Systems.
• Managing the Society's response to injured workers, an effective return to work program, and workers' compensation insurance program.
• Implementing a Society-wide health and wellbeing program, investigating serious work health and safety-related incidents.
• Managing safety inspections of sites and audits of the safety management system while supporting the Society's Work Health and Safety Management Committee.
• Managing the development, implementation, delivery and assessment of the Society's emergency management core functions including preparedness; planning; response and recovery requirements; and emergency warden and incident control processes in compliance with relevant legislation and standards.
• Supporting the Society's measures to effectively safeguard children, supporting the CEO and Executive Leadership Team with managing emergency response and recovery activities.
• Ensuring that direct reports complete relevant pre-engagement checks in accordance with the organisation's Code of Conduct and Workplace Health and Safety program.

To be successful, you will need:

• Relevant tertiary qualification and experience working in workplace health and safety.
• Strong knowledge of Work Health and Safety and Workers Compensation legislation, Regulations and Australian Standards.
• Significant experience in Work Health and Safety management systems, injury management, return to work programs, ability to develop reports and understanding of people and culture issues with WHS requirements.
• Demonstrated extensive knowledge of legislative requirements, including Australian Standards for emergency management.
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship management skills, with internal and external stakeholders including at the senior executive level.
• Ability to travel to Society workplaces across NSW and a NSW driver licence.
• Ideally experience working in a membership-based organisation to support and empower members and volunteers or Not-for-Profit sector.

How to apply

If this sounds like you, don't wait to apply - we are interviewing suitable applications as we receive them and move quickly to fill this role. Submit your application with a resume and cover letter which addresses the key requirements of the Position Description. Information on how to apply.

The Society is committed to being a Child Safe organisation, further information can be found in the Society's commitment to Safeguarding Children & Young People. Prior to an offer of employment, candidates will be required to complete the pre-employment checks including a Police check & Working with Children check.

St Vincent de Paul Society (NSW) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and is committed to engaging a diverse workforce. We take pride in the diversity of our people and encourage applications from people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people who identify as LGBTQIA, candidates of any or no religious beliefs and applicants of all ages.

St Vincent de Paul (NSW) has a COVID- 19 vaccination policy that has identified this role as requiring a full COVID-19 vaccination. Medical exemptions with the NSW government contraindication form will be considered, subject to a satisfactory risk assessment.