Role statement - Emergency Recovery Victoria | Emergency Management 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 recovery.

ERV is responsible for relief and recovery coordination at the state and regional tiers, 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 and regional relief, and recovery planning across ERV’s 5 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 and regional relief and 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 and regional relief, including: support the EMC to appoint State Emergency Relief Coordinators appoint Regional Emergency Relief Coordinators to fulfil responsibilities 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 relief and 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 relief and 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

Role statement - Emergency Recovery Victoria