Queensland Fire Department
Status
Permanent Flexible Full-time
Classification
AO6
Salary: $111,581.50 - $119,147.23 per annum
Division
Strategy & Corporate Services
Region/Directorate
PPL & CULTURE
Work Unit
Talent Acquisition
Location:
Kedron 4031
Closing Date
Midnight 14 July 2024
Reference No
QLD_QFES_19948_24
Current Queensland Fire Department employees and volunteers must apply via their internal careers site
About Us
As a department our purpose is to help the community to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from the impact of fire and emergency events.
QFES is the primary provider of fire, rescue and emergency management programs and services throughout Queensland. The department encompasses Queensland Fire and Rescue Service, Rural Fire Service Queensland (RFSQ), and other volunteer groups providing emergency response to Queenslanders.
Purpose of the role
Talent Acquisition Services is the central point of contact for the department's talent acquisition activities and to operationalise the attraction, selection and recruitment strategy through the effective delivery of modern and contemporary recruitment practices and services that enhance the overall experience from recruitment to retirement, and support an inclusive, diverse and capable pool of talent to meet organisational objectives and fulfil operational requirements.
Reporting to the Executive Manager, you will be responsible for fostering employee engagement, retainment and morale, motivating and engaging employees to thrive and ultimately set employees up for success. You will ensure future talent growth and success through the identification of employees' strengths, needs and wants; leveraging their talents to the fullest in line with the departments' strategic goals, culture and purpose; and leading the empowerment of employees to increase productivity levels, the efficiency of business processes and improve retention rates.
Key requirements
Highly Desirable Requirements
Knowledge and/or experience or qualifications in recruitment and/or human resource management or similar discipline.Experience or qualifications in business or relevant discipline.
Your key accountabilities
Responsibilities
Your part in the ongoing success of our department will see you responsible for a variety of work, including, but not limited to:
Proactively develop and embed selection and recruitment processes in the department to support strategies that improve all stages of the recruitment and selection experience. Analysis, design and implement innovative attraction, selection and recruitment practices to support effective candidate assessment and design processes to remove barriers for traditionally disadvantaged that enhance overall experience from recruitment to retirement. Review and provide advice on recruitment processes to ensure compliance including the department's management of conflicts of interest and compliance with the recruitment and selection directive and the Public Sector Act. Provide advice and guidance to hiring managers, internal and external candidates on navigating recruitment processes, including advice on reasonable adjustments, and contribute to job evaluations and role design as required.Coordinate the department's transfer at level process, executive recruitment activities, statewide campaigns for operational and non-operational recruitment and provide ongoing support to organisation wide transfer at level process. Develop and maintain effective stakeholder relationships and networks across the department and business partners to identify opportunities, achieve outcomes and facilitate cooperation.Undertake research and analysis of emerging recruitment issues and trends likely to impact the strategic direction of the department and develop supporting policy and solutions.Assist in the preparation and review of reports, briefing notes, submissions, business cases, departmental and other correspondence, in accordance with departmental requirements and governance.
Capabilities
Role
To determine your suitability for the role, you will be assessed on the following Leadership Competencies for Queensland behavioural profiles that link to the "key accountabilities" for this role:
Leadership Competency Stream – Individual Contributor (leading self)
Vision
Stimulates ideas and innovationMakes insightful decisions
Results
Builds enduring relationshipsDrives accountability and outcomes
Accountability
Fosters healthy and inclusive workplacesDemonstrates sound governance
Once you join us we will want you to exemplify the QFES shared values of:
RespectIntegrityTrustCourageLoyalty
Want more information?
Please contact Sarah Ryan, Director - Strategy & Services on phone 0488 035 561 or email ******.
You can also visit our website to find out more about our organisation.
How To Apply
Please refer to the QFD Public Service Application Guide [All PS Classifications/Streams and Senior Officer] for information on how to apply for this role.
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