Community Disaster Program Specialist

Global Roles; Stillwater (OK); Presencial; USD 42 000 - 64 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Global Roles in Stillwater, OK, is seeking a Community Disaster Program Specialist to guide and mobilize volunteer teams, delivering comfort and care during disasters. You will build and maintain robust volunteer engagement using established processes and collaborate with volunteer services staff.

The role emphasizes coordinating staff and volunteers, advancing disaster cycle services, and partnering with local organizations to support frontline communities through response, recovery, and

Descrição da oferta de emprego

As a Community Disaster Program Specialist, you will guide, lead and support teams of trained volunteers to deliver comfort and care in times of disaster. You will also create and maintain a foundation of continuous and robust volunteer engagement using established processes and collaborating with volunteer services staff.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate and support a diverse volunteer team responsible for the implementation of volunteer-led disaster cycle services programming.
• Ensure disaster cycle services are delivered in a rapid, accessible, and equitable manner, both culturally and linguistically, to meet the urgent, disaster-caused needs of clients, with a focus on frontline communities.
• Assist with the successful implementation of either specific disaster cycle services program activities, or a specific disaster cycle services function within an assigned geographic area.
• Engage disaster volunteers who are the primary workforce, and representative of the communities they serve, both culturally and linguistically.
• Support local efforts to prepare and mobilize communities and engage partners to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters and emergencies.
• Implement plans to meet assigned targets for volunteer engagement and volunteer-led Disaster Action Team response to local home fires or support specific function tasks within assigned geographic area.
• Act as the local point of contact for partners and communities.
• Partner with local organizations and leaders supporting frontline communities and community resiliency before, during and after disasters.
• Participate in disaster response operations in the region in alignment with the Disaster Cycle Services Concept of Operations, upon completion of training requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience required.
• Minimum 3 years of experience with social services, emergency management, disaster relief or non profit coordination or any other related experience.
• Ability to coordinate staff and volunteer activities.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• 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.
• Travel is required - 20%

Skills

• Emergency Management
• Disaster Relief Management
• Social Service
• Volunteer Coordination
• Staff Coordination
• Collaboration with Diverse Groups
• Multi-Priority Management
• Facilitation
• Problem Solving
• Marketing
• Leadership
• Partnership Management
• MS Word
• MS Excel
• MS PowerPoint
• Microsoft Outlook

Languages

English