We’d love to hear from you about what you would like from AWE or what you can do for AWE! Email us at [email protected].

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Webinar – Resilience During Crisis
On Thursday 23 April 2020,  Elizabeth McNaughton, Cofounder @ Hummingly and AWE NZ Chapter CoLead, presented a webinar on Resilience During Crisis with their focus on empowering people to navigate through life’s challenges. By Kiwi Landing Pad. For information about the webinar, please click here.  Read more …

COVID19 – Resilience Podcast
NSW chapter lead Catherine Strods has been busy hosting a podcast series under her new Organisational Resilience consulting firm NACOR Consulting. Listen to all of the current podcasts here.  Read more …

AWE Member Interview

In the midst of the COVID-19 response Queensland Chapter Co-Lead, Alicia Palmer, caught up with Libby Preedy, Emergency Preparedness and Continuity Management Coordinator for the Townsville Hospital and Health Service, to talk all things COVID-19, adapting to change, and her optimism for a post-COVID-19 future. Read more …

AWE Member Survey – Working From Home 
It is not surprising that we have heard about how the impact of working from home can be experienced differently and create different challenges and opportunities for women and men. AWE is pleased to have been offered an opportunity to participate in a global survey on what people think about working from home. Read more …

Follow this link to the survey https://surveys.phrasia.com/s3/awe-network-wfh

The AWE Mentoring Program has been developed to assist AWE members to establish effective and positive mentoring relationships. We encourage all AWE members to express interest in participating in the program: as either a Mentor or a Mentee, or both!  Read more …

More information is available on the AWE website Mentoring page https://www.awenetwork.org.au/mentoring/

AWE Member Video Catchups
During April some AWE members have had the opportunity to catch up by video conference. TheAWE Committee met by video for the April Committee meeting and also for video ‘drinks after work’. Geelong members in Victoria also had another networking session by video link.

If you would like a hand in setting up an AWE virtual meeting, please contact us and we can host, or give you a hand in setting one up.  As video meetings are not limited by geography, maybe if you have a theme, anyone can join if they are interested.

Australia New Zealand Disaster and Emergency Management Conference (ANZDMC)
Thursday 1st  – Friday 2nd October 2020
2020 Theme – Leadership, Communication and Community Engagement
With the date being pushed back, final abstract submissions will be accepted until Friday 29 May 2020. Therefore, if you would like to edit or submit a second presentation, you are welcome to do this.
https://anzdmc.com.au/ 

Postponed:
Emergency Management Conference – Find out more about the conference program here.
Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction – ttps://www.unisdr.org/conference/2020/apmcdrr/home

Pending:
Women and Firefighting Australasia 2020 Conference – 25-28 August, Adelaide
AFAC 20 – 25-28 August, Adelaide – Connecting communities. Creating resilience
Australian Disaster Resilience Conference 2020 – 26-27 August, Adelaide – Disaster risk reduction in action: pathways to impact
2020 Floodplain Management Australia National Conference

New opportunity at ESTA – Executive Position
The Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority (ESTA) provides the critical link between the community and emergency services for all “000” calls. It partners with Victoria’s Police, Ambulance, Fire and SES agencies to facilitate community driven outcomes every day of the year.

A newly created position of Executive Manager, Operational Service Design and Performance is a key strategic role for the organisation, with the intention of delivering an effective, community-driven service model that facilitates continuous improvement and innovation.
●Design and Implement Change and Transformation
●Establish a diverse team and deliver a critical community service at Triple Zero
●Drive Best Practice – integrating performance, quality, safety, and wellbeing

ESTA is focusing on building the foundations of an inclusive culture as a priority that will contribute to our ongoing sustainability and success.

We are accelerating our commitment to action in achieving equitable employment opportunities and outcomes for women in leadership and women aspiring to leadership.
ESTA aims to provide work conditions that are safe, flexible, accessible, equitable and inclusive, where diversity is valued and you can realise your potential.

Please apply here https://www.davidsonwp.com/job/executive-manager-operational-service-design-and-performance-1/

FRRR – Disaster Recovery & Resilience Lead
Opportunity to connect with many wonderful rural and remote communities across Australia? A role that encourages your collaborative leadership skills and expands your best practice project management skills?
Location : VIC Regional  (Bendigo)
Work type : Full-time

Application closing date : 5 May, 2020
https://probonoaustralia.com.au/jobs/2020/04/disaster-recovery-resilience-lead/

Emergency Services Foundation launched a program of guided mindfulness meditations especially for people in emergency management which can be accessed via the ESF website https://esf.com.au/services/mindfulness/

Women & Leadership Australia (WLA) Scholarships
Scholarships are currently being offered by Women & Leadership Australia (WLA) to women working in the Defence (Serving Members, Contractors and Veteran Advocacy, Organisations or Service Provision) and the Emergency Services Sector. To find out more and register your interest you can do so via the following link https://www.wla.edu.au/policedefenceemergencyservices.html. Read more …
Applications Close – Friday 15^th of May 2020.

Gender equality in the workplace

Want to learn more about gender equality in the workplace? The Workplace Gender Equality Agency aims to promote and improve gender equality in Australian workplaces.  Read more …

Do you want to know more about Disaster Recovery?
The Australian Institute for Disaster Recovery is delivering a series of webinars to get to the heart of key issues in disaster recovery. View all webinars on the Recovery Matters webinar series YouTube playlist. Read more …

Research on the “gendered emergencies”: 
Laura Donati, a student of Law and Gender from the University of Umea (Sweden) is currently writing her MA thesis on gender and humanitarian emergencies and is looking for your opinion, inputs, suggestions, personal experiences or if you have any reading you’d like to recommend. Laura – [email protected] Read more …

National Security College (NSC) Online Professional Development
The National Security College (NSC) is proud to launch its new Online Professional Development platform, created in support of – and in consultation with – Australia’s national security community. To help celebrate the launch, the College is offering free access to the first course in the online professional development program, Leadership and decision making in times of adversity: insights from leading practitioners. Registrations are essential and places are limited to best enable participant interaction with the presenters.
More courses will be announced in the coming weeks.

Working from home? Stay productive and sane!
Based on her experiences of working from home, Emma Green shows us five ways to stay productive and sane while working from home including details on how to:

• Treat every day like a workday
• Create a sacred space
• Prioritise ‘face-to-face’ communication 
• Treasure your time, and track it
• Measure outputs, especially the good ones

AWE Member Snap Poll – Working from Home Likes and Dislikes:
We asked some of our AWE members what they like and don’t like about working from home. Read what they said here …