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This survey will take about 15 minutes.

Your feedback will inform a submission on behalf of UFBA/FRFANZ members. The results of this survey will also be shared with the Rural Professional Association (RPA) for their submission. We therefore encourage members of these three Associations to complete the survey.

There is an opt-out tick box at the end of the survey - if you DO NOT wish to allow us to quote your answer in our submission. If we DO quote your answer we will NOT use your name.  It will remain anonymous as long as your content doesn't identify you or your brigade.

If you are a career firefighter/member of NZPFU please refer to their website for their submission process.

Please note however that we DO request your name and brigade in order to ensure responses are only from legitimate brigade members - this will be used for authentication only.

If you need more information about a question, the corresponding page reference from the proposal will in some cases be at end of each question.

Additional survey questions may be added over coming weeks as themes come through from members that need to be tested.

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* 1. Are you completing this survey as:

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* 2. Meeting community needs - How confident are you/your Brigade that the proposed changes to structure/rank will adequately enable FENZ to deliver fire and emergency services in a way that will meet the future needs of your community?

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* 3. If not or partly confident – what would you/your Brigade like to see change to better meet community needs?

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* 4. APPLYING RANK - (a) Do you/your Brigade agree with the proposed treatment of rank for operational purposes to control and direct personnel in fast moving and dynamic fire and emergency situations, where escalation of incident management competency requires immediate attention? Pages 29-76 of Proposal.

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* 5. POSITION AND RANK (b) Should there be both a position name and a rank name for the same person? (eg. it is proposed that the position is District Manager but their rank is Chief Officer, it is also proposed that Group Manager has a rank name of Deputy Chief Officer). Page 71 of Proposal.

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* 6. SUPPORTING AND ENABLING VOLUNTEERISM - If the proposal is agreed, then Chief Fire Officers, Controllers and SSOs would report through to a Group Manager who will be their main point of contact. The Group Manager would then report to a District Manager who in-turn would report to a Region Manager.

What expectations would you/your Brigade have of Group Manager to ensure that local leaders and volunteerism (whether rural or urban) is better supported, developed and resourced with appropriate equipment etc?

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* 7. VALUING AND STRENGTHENING VOLUNTEERS - Does the proposal give you/your Brigade confidence that volunteers contributions will be valued and respected and that the organisational arrangements will encourage, maintain and strengthen the capability of FENZ volunteers (Section 36 (1) (C) of the Fire and Emergency Act 2017. Refer to the Supporting information, Job Descriptions).

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* 8. VOLUNTEERISM STRATEGY - What changes would you/your Brigade expect to see FENZ making to implement the Volunteerism Strategy as a result of implementing this change process?

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* 9. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PROPOSED GROUP MANAGER AND CONTROLLER/CHIEF FIRE OFFICER. The proposal currently states that the point of contact for a Chief Fire Officer/Controller is their proposed Group Manager, recognising the role of the local leader and that volunteers aren’t employed, but are “engaged” personnel of FENZ. Do you agree with how this relationship is described?

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* 10. RURAL CAPABILITY AND CAPACITY - The proposal suggests disestablishing PRFO and DPRFO (and equivalent positions). Accountabilities of this position would be distributed across District Manager, Group Manager, District Risk Reduction and District Community Readiness and Recovery Manager. Do you/your Brigade have concerns about this change?

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* 11. CULTURE AND SKILL SETS. Are you confident that soft skills [1] for positions are adequately reflected in the proposal, supporting information and job descriptions?
Note [1] - Soft skills are a combination of people skills, social skills, communication skills, character or personality traits, attitudes, career attributes, social intelligence and emotional intelligence quotients, among others, that enable people to navigate their environment, work well with others, perform well, and achieve.

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* 12. ELIGIBILITY TO APPLY FOR POSITIONS - Keeping in mind legal obligations of FENZ the employer (and the Employee Transition Protocol), are you/your Brigade convinced that new and changing roles provide adequate opportunity for FENZ personnel and/or external applicants to apply for roles? Page 27 of Proposal and then 83-104.

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* 13. RATIO OF PROPOSED GROUP MANAGER TO BRIGADE. Has the proposal got the right ratio of Group Managers to the number of Brigades which could influence the support you/your Brigades may receive.
Note: there is no clear delineation between Volunteer and Career Brigades). What is the ideal ratio (tick one below):

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* 14. HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELLBEING (INCL. PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING) - Are you confident that your/your Brigades health, safety and wellbeing needs will be adequately addressed and upheld if this proposal is implemented?

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* 15. RISKS OF THE PROPOSAL - What are your/your Brigades biggest concerns in terms of:
a) the types of changes the proposal is suggesting?
b) how the proposal could be implemented in reality?

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* 16. OTHER - Are there any other points you/your Brigade would like to make?

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* 17. Please provide your details below for authentication ONLY. This information will be held confidentially by the UFBA/FRFANZ.

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* 18. We would like to use your written answers to contribute to our Association submission. Your personal information will be kept anonymous. If you would prefer we NOT use your comments please opt out below.

Thank you very much for taking the time to contribute your views, or the views of your brigade, to this submission. If you'd like closer involvement with the UFBA's future sector advocacy work please consider joining our Brigade Representatives Group - for more information contact UFBA Stakeholder and Membership Manager Jo Bryan at jo@ufba.org.nz. Thank you!
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