Careers and Industry

Students are employed in the various emergency management and emergency service organisations in Australia (EMA, State EM agencies, Police, Fire, Ambulance and SES) and also in similar agencies overseas. In addition, students are employed in agencies and public and private organisations and agencies who support Government agencies in the provision of emergency management, e.g. Red Cross, Salvation Army, Community Service and Welfare agencies, health departments and so on.

CSU has a collaborative agreement with Emergency Management Australia (EMA), the federal Government’s Emergency Management agency, and has had a formal collaborative agreement with EMA since 2000. Prior to this, CSU’s Emergency Management program had a strong linkage with EMA stemming back to the development of the course in the late 1980s/ early 1990s by the Tasmanian State Emergency Service, when EMA staff were involved in aspects of the course’s development and facilitation. The current head of EMA and one of his Directors are past graduates of our undergraduate course.

CSU also has strong connections with the NSW Emergency Management Office and NSW Fire Brigades. We have an informal connection with the NSW Emergency Management Office, given that we are located in NSW and provide EM education and training to quite a number of EM practitioners within NSW. We have a graduate employed within the NSW EMO and we provide advice and assistance to them on a regular basis regarding EM policy and practice within NSW.

We have a formalised relationship with the NSW Fire Brigades in that staff from our EM program are actively engaged by the NSW Fire Brigades to assist in the Station Officer and Inspectorate promotion programs. In addition, CSU has been working with the NSWFB Professional Development Unit for a number of years now in the development of proposals to introduce formal tertiary professional development education programs to their junior officers. CSU, through our RTO office, currently provides a Graduate Certificate program for NSWFB Inspectorate officers as part of their Inspectors’ Promotion Program.

CSU has developed linkages with the Australian Defence Force and the Singapore Civil Defence Force. We have a Memorandum of Understanding with the Singaporean Civil Defence Force, which sees the offering of our undergraduate emergency management program to officers within the SCDF. This MOU also includes Fire Investigation programs offered through the Australian Graduate School of Policing’s campus at Manly.

We are currently in discussions and negotiation with the Australian Defence Force regarding the offering of our postgraduate, Master degree program to staff posted within the Joint Operations Support Section of the ADF. JOSS provides military liaison and linkage with civil authorities regarding the provision of military assistance and support to civil authorities during times of emergency.

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