Senior Consultant vacancy
Do you have expertise in risk and resilience? Read on to find out more about an opportunity to join our team.
Do you have expertise in risk and resilience? Read on to find out more about an opportunity to join our team.
Rong-Gong Lin, a reporter who has worked on earthquake news at the Los Angeles Times for nearly a decade, recently visited Christchurch and spoke to a number of people, including Tracy Hatton, to learn more about the lessons California can learn from Christchurch. As he notes in his story, Christchurch bears a distinct resemblance to California cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco, sharing similar building codes, architectural styles and proximity to major faults and can help educate Californians on what we might to expect when the next earthquake hits one of their cities.
Ron wrote three stories featured in the paper.
We are excited to have been awarded a grant under the New Zealand EQC Biennial Grants programme.
Tracy Hatton will be leading a team of researchers looking at how organisations perceive their obligations under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 and what they actually do to reduce earthquake impacts on their organisation and employees. The project will also look at identifying ways in which policy and legislation can be better leveraged to encourage behaviour change to improve New Zealand’s resilience to disaster.
We are looking for a driven, open-minded person to join our team as a Research Consultant. This is a unique opportunity to join a growing business. You will be involved in a diverse range of research and consulting projects while contributing to the vision, strategy, and development of the business and pursuing your own resilience related projects.
Resilient Organisations is a niche research and consulting company that helps organisations, industries, and economies thrive in any environment. We specialise in developing and administering tools and strategies for decision making, resilience assessment, and education. As a social enterprise, we aim to maximise the positive social impact of our work.
Resilient Organisations provides a broad range of resilience consulting services to organisations as well as conducting resilience-related research. Please see our website www.resorgs.org.nz to find out more.
We are a small team who believe work should be fun. We operate a flexible working environment to promote wellbeing inside and outside of work. Our values are key to the way we operate. We work collaboratively within our team, and with our partners, clients, and funders to produce high quality, evidence-based outputs that make a difference.
The main tasks will involve:
You will need the ability to:
You will ideally possess:
To apply for this role, please email your CV and covering letter to [email protected] by 20 January 2019.
If you would like further information about the position or Resilient Organisations, contact Tracy Hatton on +64 (0) 21 160 7707.