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.
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) is the primary provider of fire, rescue and emergency management programs and services throughout Queensland. The department encompasses the Fire and Rescue Service, disaster management services, the Rural Fire Service and the State Emergency Service, and also supports other volunteer groups providing emergency response to Queenslanders.
QFES is one department with many services, many capabilities and many partners.
Purpose of the role
Strategic Intelligence and Planning is responsible for the design, development and implementation of best practice approaches, frameworks and guidelines for organisational strategy and ensures compliance with legislative requirements and alignment to government policy. The Analytics team works closely with internal and external stakeholders to support alignment of strategic planning and thinking, leads strategic foresight initiatives, including environment and horizon scanning that supports and informs business intelligence to support and enhance decision making and ensure QFES is able to prepare and respond to changes in the broader disaster and emergency management environment.
Reporting to the Executive Manager, you will be a key member of the Analytics team, contributing to the design and delivery of organisational reporting, analytics and business intelligence products and services to guide evidence-based decision making in line with the strategic direction of the organisation. You will be responsible for developing queries to interrogate data, and analyse the data to identify the appropriate ways to present key information and work with the business to help develop products that enable increased accessibility to key information for decision-making. You will work with key stakeholders to establish data requirements, and design and deliver data, reporting and key business intelligence products, (including advice in the use and interpretation of data) to meet operational, departmental and external customer needs.
Key requirements
Highly desirable requirements
Your key accountabilities
Your part in the ongoing success of our department, in supporting frontline services will see you responsible for a variety of work, including, but not limited to :
Capabilities
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
Results
Accountability
Once you join us we will want you to exemplify the QFES shared values :
Data Analyst • Brisbane, Australia