Role statement - Emergency Recovery Victoria

About Emergency Recovery Victoria

Emergency Recovery Victoria (ERV) is a permanent and dedicated recovery agency to build stronger and more resilient individuals, communities, and regions through community‐led recovery.

ERV is responsible for recovery coordination at the state and regional tier, and relief coordination at the state tier, partnering with all levels of government, business and not for profit organisations to enable locally driven and locally delivered recovery outcomes.

Mitigation

Activity Critical task alignment / activity source

Lead and coordinate recovery planning across ERV’s five lines of recovery (People and Wellbeing, Aboriginal Culture and Healing, Environment and Biodiversity, Business and Economy, and Building and Infrastructure), ensuring that recovery plans:

 
  • are developed through participation with community and agency stakeholders
 1.1, 1.2
  • incorporate initiatives that build community resilience where-ever this is possible.
 1.1, 6.6

Coordinate state and regional recovery, including:

 
  • develop and implement overarching recovery framework and whole of government recovery policy, including recovery plans and guidance
 1.1
  • lead in recovery planning, program management, engagements and operations to ensure wraparound services systems are easily available for affected people.
 1.3, 15.5

Response (including Relief)

Activity Critical task alignment / activity source

Support State and regional transition from response to recovery

 

Support the EMC to coordinate data collection and state impact assessment processes

 

Coordinate state relief, including:

  • support the EMC to appoint State Emergency Relief Coordinators
  • engage with relief coordinating agencies (ReLCA), Commonwealth Government, other jurisdictions and non-government organisations to ensure appropriate relief supports are in place and are well integrated to meet community needs.

 

Recovery

Activity Critical task alignment / activity source

Coordinate state and regional recovery, including:

 
  • lead intergovernmental coordination

3.1
  • engage with communities, local governments, State Government departments and agencies, the Commonwealth Government and non-government organisations to ensure appropriate recovery supports are in place and are well integrated to meet community needs.

3.2, 20.5, 20.6
  • State and Commonwealth funding for recovery, as required
 15.4, 20.3
  • Lead the coordination of Victorian Government communications and public information relation to recovery
 2.3, 2.5
Responsible for community recovery coordination Tables 13-18: Recovery coordination

Recovery Lead Agency (RecLA) across the recovery environments including:

  • community information
  • coordination of spontaneous volunteers (strategic)[1] (including for relief)
  • management of donated goods (including for relief).
 Table 14: Recovery coordination: For Services across all environments

Recovery Lead Agency (RecLA) to:

  • coordinate approved state-led or supported clean-up of residential property
 Table 17: Recovery coordination: Built environment

Recovery Support Agency (RecSA) to Municipal councils to:

  • form, lead and support municipal recovery committees
  • provide and staff recovery/information centres
  • provide and manage community recovery services.
 Table 14: Recovery coordination: For Services across all environments
Recovery Support Agency (RecSA) to DJPR to deliver recovery programs and advice to primary producers, and rural land managers and other animal businesses Table 16: Recovery coordination: Economic environment
Advise Cabinet, relevant Committees of Cabinet and the SCRC and on strategic matters relating to relief and recovery 4.5, 4.6
Support the establishment and operation of Community Recovery Committees 3.2
Support the establishment and operation of community recovery hubs 3.3, 20.6
Deliver state coordinated recovery programs where no government portfolio has accountability, as directed by government, or there is an evidenced gap in capability or capacity  19.5
Support design and/or administer recovery grants in coordination with Commonwealth, State and local government department and agencies, as required 15.4, 20.3

Assurance and Learning

Activity Critical task alignment / activity source

Oversee whole of government recovery progress towards recovery outcomes

21.1

Establish and maintain contemporary state and regional recovery policies, guidelines, frameworks and programs, built on monitoring, insights and evaluation learnings captured from previous major emergencies, exercises and better practice case studies

21.1, 21.2

 

Footnote

[1] Strategic’ relates to the broad strategy for spontaneous volunteers and not the management of spontaneous volunteers in response to an event

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