Job Overview Group Manager Hawkes Bay
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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.
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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 al  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
the 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 career and volunteer teams, built
and natural environment expertise, 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 col ectively 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 day to day leadership accountability for all aspects of service delivery by
Brigades and provides direct leadership to al  Brigades for their specific geographical area within the
District. The Group Manager wil  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 will:
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Demonstrate col ective leadership, think and act strategical y, lead with influence and maintain
strong relationships.
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Enhance team performance, inspire team members and achieve through others and the team.
•
Achieve ambitious goals, manage work priorities, display intel ectual 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 col aborate with and across internal functions to
ensure alignment of functions. Build and maintain relationships with a wide range of people to
achieve organisational outcomes.
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Demonstrate effective written, verbal and interpersonal communication skil s and the ability to
convey complex or technical information both verbal y and in written form to a range of
audiences.
•
Demonstrate strong qualitative and quantitative analytical ability, and strong judgement and
decision-making. Can distil complex and competing information to identify key themes and
issues and take a strong evidence-based approach to decision-making.
•
Demonstrate a drive for results and delivery of outcomes and promote a culture of high
performance.
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•  Have the required qualifications, skil s, knowledge and experience to successful y undertake the
position (detailed in the person specification section of the position description).
Where is the available position?
Te Ūpoko – Hawkes Bay
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For more information about this position please download a copy of the position description and
click here to apply online.
Interested in applying?
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This position is available as a permanent appointment and it may also be available as a secondment
opportunity. If you are interested in being appointed to this position, you must complete an interim
assessment of your prior experience to hold rank, submission of a CV, and an application
form.  Applications must be submitted by 12pm, 4 August 2021.
If you have already applied for a GM position in any region, you are ineligible to reapply at this time.
Before completing your CoRE application, please read the CoRe guidelines here
To fil  out your CoRE Application Form please click here
To apply please visit the vacancy section on our website www.fireandemergency.nz.  For any further
queries, please email us direct at [email address]
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Presentation Question
If invited to interview, you wil  be asked to deliver a 10-minute presentation on the fol owing topic:
Please choose an example of a complex and chal enging issue or scenario you have been
required to manage in your FENZ career. Please present:
•  an outline of the issue/scenario to the panel
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•  how you managed it
•  why you managed it in the way you did
•  what the outcomes were
•  what you learned from the experience and if you would do anything differently
in the future because of it
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•  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 al  communities, within both the
built and natural environments.
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About Fire and Emergency New Zealand
For more than 150 years, fire service organisations have been at the heart of New Zealand communities. Our
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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 the
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 career and volunteer teams, built and natural
environment expertise, community risk management teams, and support staff who deliver the 4Rs to our
communities every day.
About the role
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The Group Managers are the key operational managers within each District.
As a member of the District Leadership Team, the Group Manager is col ectively 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 day to day leadership accountability for all aspects of service delivery by Brigades
and provides direct leadership to al  Brigades for their specific geographical area within the District. The
Group Manager wil  develop and maintain relationships with key partners, stakeholders and communities
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within their area.
The Group Manager is a ranked position within Fire and Emergency.
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To be successful in this role, you will:
•  Demonstrate col ective leadership, think and act strategical y, lead with influence and maintain
strong relationships.
•  Enhance team performance, inspire team members and achieve through others and the team.
•  Achieve ambitious goals, manage work priorities, display intel ectual agility and curiosity, manage
self, display self-awareness and have a self-improvement focus.
•  Identify and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders to achieve
under
organisational outcomes, and co-ordinate and col aborate 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 skil s and the ability to
convey complex or technical information both verbal y and in written form to a range of audiences.
•  Demonstrate strong qualitative and quantitative analytical ability, and strong judgement and
decision-making. Can distil complex and competing information to identify key themes and issues
and take 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, skil s, knowledge and experience to successful y undertake the
position (detailed in the person specification section of the position description).
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Last updated: July 2017

VACANCY ADVERTISING FORM

Where is the available position?
Te Ūpoko – Taranaki
1982
For more information about this position please download a copy of the position description and click here to
apply online.
Interested in applying?
Act
This position is available as a permanent appointment and it may also be available as a secondment
opportunity. If you are interested in being appointed to this position, you must complete an interim
assessment of your prior experience to hold rank, submission of a CV, and an application form.  Applications
must be submitted by 12pm, 4 August 2021.
If you have already applied for a GM position in any region, you are ineligible to reapply at this time.
Before completing your CoRE application, please read the CoRe guidelines here
To fil  out your CoRE Application Form please click here
To apply please visit the vacancy section on our website www.fireandemergency.nz.  For any further queries,
please email us direct at [email address]
Information
Presentation Question
If invited to interview, you wil  be asked to deliver a 10-minute presentation on the fol owing topic:
Please choose an example of a complex and chal enging issue or scenario you have been required to
manage in your FENZ career. Please present:
•  an outline of the issue/scenario to the panel
Official
•  how you managed it
•  why you managed it in the way you did
•  what the outcomes were
•  what you learned from the experience and if you would do anything differently in
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the future because of it

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Last updated: July 2017

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