Community Disaster Program Manager

American Red Cross; Wichita Falls (TX); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plan

Dental plan

Vision plan

PTO 15 days/year

Holidays

Job summary

The American Red Cross seeks a Community Disaster Program Manager to lead volunteer-driven disaster cycle services in the assigned geographic area. You will mobilize partners, ensure readiness resources, and coordinate community engagement to strengthen disaster response capabilities.

Requirements include a Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience in building and managing volunteer programs. A valid driver's license and ability to deploy to disaster operations are essential.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• Experience: Minimum 5 years of related experience with building, mobilizing, leading and developing volunteer teams to execute a social services program or service.
• A Valid Driver’s License and a clean MVR.

Responsibilities

• Empower Volunteers: Lead and support a diverse volunteer team responsible for disaster cycle services in the assigned area.
• Lead the Program: Implement disaster cycle services activities within the region.
• Mission Capacity Building: Develop disaster volunteers and leadership within the community.
• Engage Community: Coordinate efforts to prepare and mobilize communities and partners.

Skills

Leadership

Volunteer management

Communication

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Job Description

Joining the American Red Cross 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?

When you choose to be a force for good, you will have mentors who empower your growth along a purposeful career path. You align your life’s work with an ongoing mission that is bigger than all of us. As you care for others, you are 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.

The candidate must reside no more than 45 minutes away from the chapter office.

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.


• Diverse Community: Identify, build trust in, and increase access to disaster services in diverse, historically underserved communities. Build relationships and partnerships with trusted and diverse organizations within assigned priority communities to extend the reach and trust of the Red Cross.

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 Valid Driver’s License and a clean MVR.

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, problem solving, marketing, leadership, and partnership management.


• Intermediate level proficiency with Microsoft Office software, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.


• Ability to work outside of regular duty hours including nights and weekends.

RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS

• Chapter-based positions: Geographic Community Disaster employees are expected to work daily in their assigned geographic area to engage and mobilize communities and support volunteers.


• Regional positions: Regional leadership and functional employees are expected to work daily within their region’s geographic area to provide leadership and functional support, engage and mobilize communities, and support volunteers.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to handle or feel; and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 15 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. The work environment will consist of moderate noise (i.e. business office with computers, phones and printers, light traffic). The employee must have the ability to work in a small cubicle and have the ability to sit at a computer terminal for an extended period of time.

WHAT WILL GIVE YOU THE COMPETITIVE EDGE (Preferred Qualifications)

• Bilingual English/Spanish is a plus


• Must be able to set priorities and have tough conversations.


• Must have volunteer management experience.


• Must be able to build strong teams.


• Must have experience working with community partners.


• Must be able to make decisions based on data

BENEFITS FOR YOU

• Medical, Dental Vision plans


• Health Spending Accounts & Flexible Spending Accounts


• PTO: Starting at 15 days a year; based on FLSA status and tenure


• Holidays: 11 paid holidays comprised of six core holidays and five floating holidays


• 401K with 6% match


• Paid Family Leave


• Employee Assistance


• Disability and Insurance: Short + Long Term


• Service Awards and recognition

The American Red Cross is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, San Diego Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and any other applicable state and local laws.

AmeriCorps, the federal agency that brings people together through service, and its partners - the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps Alums, National Peace Corps Association, and the Service Year Alliance - launched Employers of National Service to connect national service alumni with opportunities in the American Red Cross is proud to be an EONS partner and share our employment opportunities with the network of organizations.

Interested in Volunteering? Visit redcross.org/volunteertoday to learn more, including our most-needed volunteer positions.

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