Group Manager
• Manage all brigades and FENZ’ day to day service delivery across the 4Rs, including
managing and leading incident response for a specific geographic area within a District.
• Work across the District as part of the District Leadership Team, to ensure the District
delivers against work programmes and strategic priorities across the 4Rs for all communities,
within both the built and natural environments.
About Fire and Emergency New Zealand
For more than 150 years, fire service organisations have been at the heart of New Zealand
communities. Our vision is to build stronger communities and protect what matters most to the
people within them.
About the Branch
The Service Delivery Branch comprises the five Regions that deliver our services to communities, and
Directorates that support our Regions with the management of specialist or strategic functions and
activities.
The Regions are the primary operational delivery arm of FENZ, focussed on enabling their Districts to
deliver on the 4Rs of emergency management – reduction, readiness, response and recovery, across
both the built and natural environments. Districts comprise of diverse professional and career, urban
and rural firefighter Brigades, community risk management teams, and support staff who deliver the
4Rs to our communities every day.
About the role
The Group Managers are the key operational managers within each District.
As a member of the District Leadership Team, the Group Manager is collectively accountable for
ensuring service delivery (the 4Rs of risk reduction, readiness, response and recovery) for the built
and natural environment across the District.
The Group Manager has prime day to day leadership accountability for all aspects of service delivery
by brigades and provides direct leadership to all brigades for their specific geographical area within
the District. The Group Manager will develop and maintain relationships with key partners,
stakeholders and communities within their area.
The Group Manager is a ranked position within Fire and Emergency.
To be successful in this role, you wil :
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• Have the necessary operational response experience to effectively manage major incidents,
and ensure the health and safety of our personnel on the incident ground.
• Demonstrate collective leadership, think and act strategically, lead with influence and
achieves through relationships.
• Enhance team performance, inspire team members and achieve through others and the
team.
• Achieve ambitious goals, manage work priorities, display intellectual agility and curiosity,
manage self, display self-awareness and have a self-improvement focus.
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• Identify and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders to
achieve organisational outcomes, and co-ordinate and collaborate with and across internal
functions to ensure alignment of functions. Build and maintain relationships with a wide
range of people to achieve organisational outcomes.
• Demonstrate effective written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills and the ability 1982
to convey complex or technical information both verbally and in written form to a range of
audiences.
• Demonstrate strong qualitative and quantitative analytical ability, strong judgement and
decision-making. Have the ability to distil complex and competing information to identify
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key themes and issues and takes a strong evidence-based approach to decision-making.
• Demonstrate a drive for results and delivery of outcomes and promote a culture of high
performance.
• Have the required qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience to successfully undertake
the position (detailed in the person specification section of the position description).
Interested in applying?
For more information about this position please download a copy of the position description and
click here to apply online.
Applications will involve the need to complete an interim assessment of prior experience to hold rank,
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submission of a CV, and an application form. Applications must be submitted by 5pm Wednesday, 9
September 2020.
To apply please visit the vacancy section on our websi
te www.fireandemergency.nz. For any further
queries, please email us direct at
[email address]
Presentation Question
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If invited to interview, you wil be asked to deliver a 10-minute presentation on the following topic:
Please choose an example of a complex and challenging issue or a scenario you have been
required to manage in your FENZ career. Please present:
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an outline of the issue/scenario to the panel
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how you managed it
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why you managed it in the way you did
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and what the outcomes were
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what you learned from the experience and if you would do anything differently in the
future because of it
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