Disaster Workforce Engagement Manager

American Red Cross; Honolulu (HI); On-site; USD 66,000 - 71,000; Full time

Job summary

American Red Cross in Hawaii (Honolulu) seeks a Disaster Workforce Engagement Manager to guide and support teams of trained volunteers, building a robust volunteer workforce and coordinating disaster cycle services within communities. Primary responsibilities include empowering volunteers, enhancing program delivery, and ensuring rapid, equitable disaster response.

Regional travel may be required; a valid driver license is expected and the salary range is stated.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelors degree or equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• Experience: 5+ years building, mobilizing, leading, and developing volunteer teams to execute a social services program.
• Driver's license required.

Responsibilities

• Empower Volunteers: Facilitate and support a diverse volunteer team to deliver disaster services.
• Support the Program: Assist with program activities within geographic area.
• Mission Capacity Building: Engage disaster volunteers representing communities served.
• Engage Community: Support local efforts to prepare and mobilize communities for disasters.
• Manage in a Matrix: Implement plans to meet volunteer engagement targets and responses.
• Know Your Communities: Be the local contact for partners and communities.
• Ready to Respond: Participate in disaster response operations after training.

Skills

Volunteer leadership

Communication skills

Team coordination

Driver's license

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

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 Disaster Workforce Engagement Manager, you will guide, lead and support teams of trained volunteers to deliver comfort and care in times of disaster. Primary responsibilities include building, sustaining, and energizing the volunteer workforce to create and maintain a foundation of continuous and robust volunteer engagement using established processes and collaborating with volunteer services staff. 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. This role reports to our office in Honolulu. Regional travel is expected

The salary range for this position is (HI): $66,200/yr‐$70,600/yr.

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

• Empower Volunteers: Facilitate and support a diverse volunteer team responsible for the implementation of volunteer-led disaster cycle services programming as well as 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 our clients, with a focus on frontline communities.
• Support the Program: 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.
• Mission Capacity Building: Engage disaster volunteers who are the primary workforce, and representative of the communities they serve, both culturally and linguistically.
• Engage Community: Support local efforts to prepare and mobilize communities and engage partners to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters and emergencies.
• Manage in a Matrix: 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.
• Know Your Communities: 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.
• Ready to Respond: Participate in disaster response operations in the region in alignment with the Disaster Cycle Services Concept of Operations, upon completion of training requirements.

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:

• Ability to coordinate staff and volunteer activities.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Proven record of accomplishment of col