Community Disaster Programs Lead

American Red Cross; Beaver (Beaver County); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

American Red Cross seeks a Community Disaster Program Manager to ensure collaboration with Volunteer Services, engage partners, and assess readiness, facilities, and resources across the assigned geographic area. You will mobilize volunteers to maintain disaster readiness and coordinate deployments as needed.

Successful candidates will hold a Bachelor's degree and have experience working with diverse communities, volunteers, and disaster response operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

American Red Cross seeks a Community Disaster Program Manager to ensure collaboration with Volunteer Services, engage partners, and assess readiness, facilities, and resources across the assigned geographic area. You will mobilize volunteers to maintain disaster readiness and coordinate deployments as needed.

Successful candidates will hold a Bachelor's degree and have experience working with diverse communities, volunteers, and disaster response operations.