Benjamin is a dynamic, reliable and multi-skilled professional with With over 10 years of experience in emergency management, strategic planning, project management, and event production, Benjamin is a dynamic and reliable leader who drives organisational growth and development. He is currently the Community Resilience & Health Coordinator at Banyule City Council, where he oversees the unit that works to build capacity across the community in public health and wellbeing, emergency preparedness, response, relief, and recovery.Benjamin has a track record of engaging and leading teams on a journey of organisational change for improved performance, delivery, and culture. He has successfully supported the strategic and corporate planning framework, coordinated the performance reporting, and embedded the project management processes at Victoria State Emergency Service. He is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Postraguate qualifications in Disaster and Emergency Response, Project Management and Applied Business, achieving all competencies with high distinction. He is also holds membership through the Project Management Institute, Australasian Institute of Project Management, the International Special Events Society and with the Risk Management Institute Australiasia. He is passionate about enhancing his knowledge and skills in incident management, incident response, and consequence management. Benjamin continually commands strong leadership, organisational and communication skills, accentuated by a verifiable ability to exhibit confidentiality, diplomacy and professionalism when dealing with internal and external stakeholders. Dedicated to delivering pragmatic and effective solutions to specific problem areas and ready to utilise leadership skills, strengths and expertise to drive organisational growth and development.A strategic and commercially focussed leader with a track record of engaging and leading teams on a journey of organisational change for improved performance, delivery, and culture. Proven ability to work closely with and influence stakeholders on proposed change initiatives in response to immediate and ongoing needs of an organisation, exhibiting expert knowledge and experience in building and developing strong teams and implementing impactful change management strategies, whilst simultaneously displaying excellence and effectiveness in leading disaster response and crisis management.
Listed skills include Event Management, Leadership, Event Planning, Leadership Development, and 17 others.
