Emergency Services Student Placement - QLD

• Short-term opportunity (three-month period / 12 weeks)
• Work time and dates are flexible (as arranged with supervisor)
• Students may spend 1-2 days per week on site (office or field-based), depending on the project requirements
• Must be able to commit to at least 20 hours per week working on project-related activities
• Regular progress meetings with supervisor

Why Choose a student placement with Red Cross?

• Experience being part of the world’s largest humanitarian network
• You can help improve lives and create a positive impact in your community
• It’s an opportunity to enhance your skills & knowledge & gain new experiences
• You’ll be helping Red Cross to support vulnerable people across Australia

The program 

As a postgraduate student, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to ongoing projects in disaster management and resilience building. Working within the Emergency Services team, you'll engage in research or field projects aligned with your academic studies. The placement will be monitored by the Emergency Services Lead in collaboration with the academic supervisor(s) at Griffith University. 

The opportunity 

For this role, you will need excellent interpersonal skills to interact with a broad range of people, including those with different lived experiences, abilities, and cultures. Your advanced technical proficiencies will enable you to critically analyse information and data, creating innovative and evidence-based solutions and recommendations. 

Red Cross will ensure you have training, ongoing support and opportunity to access skills and expertise from within Red Cross network and to other opportunities within the world’s largest humanitarian network.  

The impact 

As a student placement, your skills will assist in addressing gaps in emergency sector research, policies, and practices, and contribute to setting recommendations and innovative solutions that enhance community capacities and reduce vulnerabilities. You will gain invaluable experience and exposure to working within a dynamic emergency services team focused on community outcomes. Completion of the project will result in achieving 20 credit points toward your academic progress. 

Application requirements

• For this role you will be required to undertake a National Police Check, which will be organised through Red Cross 
• You will need to provide a recent copy of your CV
• The role will also require you to hold or apply for a Working With Children Check or Working With Vulnerable People Check depending on your State/Territory.  Red Cross can assist you in applying for this check.
• You will need to hold a current Australian Drivers License to undertake this role 

Further information 

To find out more about this opportunity please contact Deb Cox on 0404 698 779 or via email [email protected]

Thank you for considering placement at Red Cross. We also have great career opportunities, please visit our website at www.redcross.org.au/careers