Introduction:
Disaster Relief Australia (DRA) unites the skills and experience of veterans and volunteers to help communities prepare for and recover from disaster. Operating nationally, DRA relies on a highly capable, trained and deployment-ready workforce to deliver safe, effective disaster response across all hazard types.
We are seeking a Training Director to provide enterprise-level leadership and strategic stewardship of DRA's national training ecosystem.
This is a three-month maximum-term contract for a newly created role, offering a unique opportunity for a senior leader to deliver rapid capability uplift, strengthen governance and readiness, and position the organisation for sustainable long-term training maturity. While the position is offered on a maximum-term basis, DRA would hope that circumstances may evolve to enable the role to transition to a permanent appointment beyond the initial term.
Description:
About The Role
The Training Director is the organisation's senior leader responsible for training strategy, governance. The role owns the training system end-to-end — from enterprise strategy and assurance through to execution oversight — ensuring DRA's volunteers and employees are trained, credentialed and deployable at scale.
This role balances strategic leadership with hands-on problem solving, stepping in where required to unblock risk, stabilise systems and drive measurable improvements within a fixed-term horizon.
Skills and Experiences:
What You'll Do
Lead DRA's national training strategy, governance and capability direction
Oversee workforce readiness, deployability and credential alignment
Strengthen training governance, assurance and risk controls
Provide leadership across the national training function
Sponsor training systems, LMS and data optimisation initiatives
Deliver executive-level reporting on training performance and readiness
Partner with Field Operations, DRRTs and Organisational Support functions
Intervene directly where capability gaps pose operational or reputational risk
What You Will Bring
Demonstrated experience in enterprise-level capability or training leadership
Strong governance, systems and risk management capability
Experience leading large, distributed or volunteer-based workforces
Ability to operate confidently in ambiguity and high-consequence environments
Executive presence with the ability to influence senior leaders and Boards
Strong strategic thinking combined with delivery orientation
Confidence stabilising and improving systems under operational pressure
Understanding of emergency management, surge or preparedness models (highly regarded)
Why Join DRA?
Contribute to nationally significant disaster readiness capability
Lead high-impact organisational uplift within a defined mandate
Work alongside values-driven professionals, veterans and volunteers
Flexible, purpose-led engagement with meaningful executive exposure
Opportunity to shape systems that directly support deployments
Contract Details
Contract Type: Maximum term (3 months) with potential to transition to a permanent appointment
Location: Flexible / National/ Hybrid with the ability to travel interstate when needed
Disaster Relief Australia reserves the right to commence shortlisting and interviews prior to the closing date and may close the vacancy early. Early applications are encouraged.