IAEM Oceania

Passing this job offer on as a courtesy to our members.

I am an independent recruiter retained by international development organizations and am sending you this position announcement in the hope that you may know someone who has the international development experience in post-disaster, or post-conflict, massive short-term employment projects. Please feel free to forward.

I am seeking candidates for the position below on behalf of Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) of Washington, DC, whose program in Haiti continues to change to meet the evolving needs currently faced by Haitians. Please note that French language fluency is a requirement.

Title: Recovery Program Manager

Location: Haiti
Start Date and duration: Must be available for immediate deployment for at least 3 months with availability of approximately 9-12 months or longer.

I'm passing on details of competition in Australia that is being run by the Attorney-General's Department along a theme of Emergency Management Volunteers. Details quoted below and in the attachment.

IAEM Oceania member, Steve Glassey, has provided the following report entitled "Recommendations to enhance companion animal emergency management in New Zealand". This report was developed to partially fulfil the requirements of the Charles Sturt University Master of Emergency Management.

For more information about the report, please contact Steve:
M +64 21 0278 8930
E steve.glassey at mercalli.co.nz

The full report can be downloaded below.

Oceania News

Election Time

Next month we will be having an election for an Australian National Representative. If you know of someone who you think would do a great job at this, now is the time to start encouraging them to think about it. Details will be sent out with the next Oceania Offerings.

New Treasurer

James Gustus has stepped into the role of Treasurer. Welcome aboard, James!

Four items to bring to your attention:

1 - Call for Presenters for AOR2010
If you would like to present at AOR 2010 there are details on how to do so here. I would like to encourage Oceania members to be actively involved in helping shape the content of AOR 2010. It's our conference and it needs to represent the topics we are passionate about and want to share with Asia and the wider IAEM and emergency management communities.

2 - Auckland CEM Study Workshop, CEM Exam and CEM 101 Presentation

Deadline: None
The Global Risk Identification Newsletter is accepting 500-800 word articles highlighting the experience and efforts of those involved in risk assessment around the world. Those interested in submitting to the quarterly newsletter can send their articles to info@gripweb.org.

Work is progressing on the Asia-Oceania Conference. To stay up to date visit AOR 2010. This page also has information on how to submit an application to present at the conference. The conference will be the first IAEM conference outside of the USA. To make it a success we need members support in:

Sourcing speakers
Sourcing sponsors
Sourcing exhibitors
Spreading the word about the conference
Attending the conference

Source: Stuff.co.nz

Traffic cameras have been used to monitor the impact of the tsunami on Christchurch coastlines. Christchurch City Council civil defence staff used a traffic camera on Humphreys Drive to check water levels in the Estuary when the first wave – triggered by an earthquake near Samoa – reached Christchurch shores about 11.30am. A mobile traffic camera has also been positioned in Moncks Bay to record water levels in the Estuary throughout the day. Council civil defence manager Murray Sinclair said the water levels did not rise dramatically when the first wave hit.

The MCDEM Samoa Tsunami Releases are available from this page.

Source: NZ Herald

It is not good enough for John Carter to say there will be a review of New Zealand Civil Defence's response to the tsunami alert - there needs to be an independent review of what happened by someone we can trust. And it should be given priority. You never know when the system will next need to respond and after yesterday's schemozzle, my confidence in the system has weakened, not grown. Before that confidence in the system can be restored, we need to have confidence in a decent review and what happened. We need to be sure it is not some PR puff piece put together by the officials involved whom we know would say "we can always do better."