Community Disaster Program Manager

americanredcross; Concord (NC); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

American Red Cross seeks a Community Disaster Program Manager to lead volunteer teams and coordinate disaster readiness activities within the assigned geographic area. You will mobilize partners, manage resources, and ensure communities are prepared to respond to disasters.

You will collaborate with volunteers and staff across programs, develop leadership capacity, and drive readiness initiatives. A valid driver's license and five years' relevant experience are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 5 years of related experience building, mobilizing, and leading volunteer teams for social services.
• Valid driver's license with clean record.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support a diverse volunteer team delivering disaster cycle services across the assigned area.
• Coordinate disaster cycle activities and field operations within the region.
• Develop capacity by mentoring Disaster Leadership Volunteers and partner organizations.
• Engage communities and partners to improve preparedness, response, and recovery efforts.
• Collaborate with internal staff and volunteers in a matrix management environment.
• Serve as subject matter expert to maximize Red Cross presence and community engagement.

Skills

Interpersonal communication

Analytical decision making

Collaboration across diverse groups

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

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By joining the American Red Cross you will touch millions of lives every year and experience the greatness of the human spirit at its best. Are you ready to be part of the world's largest humanitarian network?

Join us-Where your Career is a Force for Good!

Job Description:

Joining the American Red Cross is like nothing else - it's as much something you feel as something you do. You become a vital part of the world's largest humanitarian network. Joining a team of welcoming individuals who are exceptional, yet unassuming. Diverse, yet uncompromising in unity. You grow your career within a movement that matters, where success is measured in people helped, communities made whole, and individuals equipped to never stop changing lives and situations for the better.

When you choose to be a force for good, you'll have mentors who empower your growth along a purposeful career path. You align your life's work with an ongoing mission that's bigger than all of us. As you care for others, you're cared for with competitive compensation and benefits. You join a community that respects who you are away from work as much as what you do while at work.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW (Job Overview):

As a Community Disaster Program Manager, you will ensure effective collaboration with Volunteer Services; identify, mobilize, and engage partners in all communities in assigned geographic area; and determine current readiness resources, facilities, supplies, local vendors, and strategies for addressing gaps. You will work with volunteers to ensure that the communities you serve are ready to respond to disasters.

Join us in meeting the needs of continuous disaster response! Regional disaster employees are required to deploy to disaster relief operations outside of their region at a minimum of once a year. Deployments contribute to skill building, career development and exposure to different types of disasters. Allowances may be provided for personal circumstances and local response activity. Employees must meet all training and physical capacity requirements for deployment.

This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.

WHERE YOUR CAREER IS A FORCE FOR GOOD (Key Responsibilities):

• Empower Volunteers: Lead and support a diverse volunteer team responsible for the implementation of volunteer-led disaster cycle services programming throughout the assigned geographic area, or functional activities throughout the region. Functional activities include mass care, response, community preparedness, recovery, planning, and readiness.
• Lead the Program: Implement either disaster cycle services activities within assigned geographic area or specific functional activities within the region
• Mission Capacity Building: Develop and support disaster volunteers who are the primary workforce, and representative of the communities they serve, both culturally and linguistically Cultivate and develop Disaster Leadership Volunteers, including volunteer partners, to meet specific responsibilities as part of their work in disaster readiness, preparedness, response, and recovery.
• Engage Community: Lead and coordinate efforts in assigned geographic area to prepare and mobilize communities and engage partners with specific functional expertise and assets to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters and emergencies.
• Manage in a Matrix: Build relationships and collaborate in the matrix management environment with internal partners, including employees and volunteers.
• Know Your Communities: Act as the Red Cross disaster subject matter expert within the assigned geographic area, to maximize Red Cross presence and community engagement and mobilization. Prospect and partner with organizations and leaders supporting frontline communities and community resiliency before, during and after disasters.
• Ready to Respond: Initiate and coordinate disaster relief operations in the assigned geographic area, or functional activities in the region in alignment with the Disaster Cycle Services Concept of Operations.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED (Minimum Qualifications):

• Education: Bachelor's degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience required.
• Experience: Minimum 5 years of related experience with building, mobilizing, leading and developing volunteer teams to execute a social services program or service.
• A current valid driver's license and good driving record is required.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated analytical and decision-making skills to interpret program trends, results, formulate recommendations, and develop creative processes for continuous program or service improvements.
• Proven record of accomplishment of collaboration with diverse groups and individual's representative of all the demographics of this community, managing multiple priorities, facilitation, p