Role statement - Emergency Recovery Victoria

Emergency Recovery Victoria

Emergency Recovery Victoria (ERV) is a permanent and dedicated relief and recovery agency focused on building 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, businesses and not for profit organisations to enable locally driven and locally delivered recovery outcomes.

Mitigation

Activity Critical task alignment / activity source

Lead and coordinate state relief, and state and regional 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 emergency management plans appropriately encompass relief and recovery considerations that: 

 
  • 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 relief, and state and regional recovery, including: 

 
  • develop, implement and continuously improve overarching relief and recovery frameworks and whole of government relief and recovery policy, including plans and guidance 
 1.1

Response (including Relief)

Activity Critical task alignment / activity source

Coordinate state relief, including: 

  • support the EMC to appoint State Emergency Relief Coordinators 

  • engage with Relief Coordinating Agencies (RelCAs), the Commonwealth Government, other jurisdictions and non-government agencies to ensure appropriate relief supports are in place and are well integrated to meet community needs 

1.2, 3.2

Support the EMC to coordinate data collection and impact assessment processes for secondary impact assessments

11.1, 11.2, 11.3

Relief Coordinating Agency (RelCA): 

  • in collaboration with the relevant Control Agency, of community information (including available services and supports) at the state tier, and provider of community information where required 

Table 11: Specified relief activities and relief coordinating agency (RelCA) 
Support state and regional transition from response to recovery  1.1, 4.4, 4.5

Recovery

Activity Critical task alignment / activity source

Coordinate state and regional recovery, including:

 
  • lead intergovernmental coordination, such as convening state and regional recovery committees and taskforces to track progress, resolve conflicts, duplication and gaps in policy and programs and address community needs 

3.1
  • engage with communities, Councils, State Government agencies, the Commonwealth Government and non-government agencies 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 (including in partnership with EMV), as required 
 15.4, 20.3
  • Lead the coordination of Victorian Government communications and public information in relation to recovery
 2.3, 2.5
  • recovery support for Aboriginal Culture and Healing, ensuring coordination efforts align with the State Government’s commitment to advancing Aboriginal self-determination 
 Tables 13-18: Recovery coordination

Recovery coordinator for state and regional tiers, including the delivery of recovery programs and services (including community services) 

 3.1

Recovery Lead Agency (RecLA) across the recovery environments at the state and regional tiers including: 

  • coordination [1] of spontaneous volunteers (strategic [2])  and management of donated goods, including engagement with relevant organisations as required 

 Table 14: Recovery coordination: For Services across all environments

Recovery Lead Agency (RecLA) to: 

  • coordinate, as lead government liaison, Australian Government Disaster Recovery Financial Assistance 

 Table 15: Recovery coordination: Social environment 

Recovery Lead Agency (RecLA) to: 

  • coordinate the insurance industry response, information and advice 

 Table 16: Recovery coordination: Economic environment

Recovery Lead Agency (RecLA) to: 

  • coordinate approved state-led or supported clean-up 

Table 17: Recovery coordination: Built environment

Recovery Support Agency (RecSA) to Councils to: 

  • form, lead and support municipal recovery committees  

  • provide recovery centres (as required) 

 Table 14: Recovery coordination: For Services across all environments 
Advise Cabinet, relevant Committees of Cabinet and the SCRC and on strategic matters relating to relief and recovery 4.5, 4.6

As directed by government, deliver recovery programs and services (including community services) where: 

  • there is an evidenced gap in capability and/or capacity within a responsible agency, ensuring there is an agreed transition back to that agency when capability and/or capacity is no longer exceeded 
  • no agency has responsibility, ensuring new programs or services are considered through recovery governance to support the identification of a suitable lead following future emergencies 
 19.5
Support the design and/or administration of recovery grants in coordination with the Commonwealth Government, recovery agencies and Councils, 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, 21.2

Lead and support real-time monitoring, event debriefing and review of relief and recovery coordination 

21.1, 21.2
Establish and maintain contemporary state and regional recovery policies, doctrine, guidelines, frameworks and programs, built on monitoring, insights and evaluation learnings captured from previous major emergencies, exercises and good practice case studies  21.1, 21.2
Provide assurance to government that recovery needs are being met  21.4

 

Footnote

1 The coordination of spontaneous volunteers may also occur during the response (including relief) phase of an incident

2 ‘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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