Area Commander – Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service
Reporting to the Strategic Management Team, you will be a senior leader of the Fire and Rescue Service. As a member of Community Protection’s Head of Service team, you will also seek to achieve collective outcomes for our communities across wider Community Protection services, including Trading Standards, Community Safety, Public Health, County Resilience, Crisis Management and Humanitarian Operations.
Working with a close-knit and supportive team you will be responsible for:
– shaping and directing future service provision and optimising the use of resources
– delivering the Community Risk Management Plan (with a focus on prevention) and collaborating with partners to embed this plan across the council, partners and blue light services
– supporting the ongoing evolution of a corporate culture which is inclusive, open, respectful, and free of prejudice; and promoting the organisation as an employer of choice with a reputation for excellence in leadership, standards, training, health and wellbeing
– enhancing the organisation’s project delivery capability so that strategies can be transformed into deliverable projects that effectively improve outcomes for residents.
This role calls for an experienced and collaborative leader who takes a creatively pragmatic approach to shaping the future of public services. A track record of motivating and supporting a diverse workforce to be the best they can, will be required for success. Operating with integrity and openness, you will need to have the confidence and credibility to engage and lead colleagues, impacting positively on partners and wider stakeholders.
You will need to be able to demonstrate an ability to lead service delivery in a complex public sector organisation and have the potential to operate as part of the Strategic Command team for the county council’s Fire and Rescue Service.
In the role of area commander, you will be required to provide strategic leadership and support to emergency fire service operations and represent the authority at major events and incidents that present a significant risk to the community and therefore Incident Command Level (ICL) 4 is a requirement of the role, development will be offered to candidates who do not hold the ICL 4 qualification.
Development of the ICL 4 qualification will mean that you will gain the knowledge and skills to support on-scene operations with the authority to direct and commit resources and to oversee, co-ordinate and support multiple off-site operations.
Candidates who are a substantive competent group commander are invited to apply for this role and will need to evidence competency at their current level and hold a recognised ICL level 3 qualification. We also welcome applications from substantive / competent area commanders.
Salary: £90,410 progressing to £99,080
Contract type: Full Time
Closing date: October 5 2025
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