Disaster Workforce Engagement Manager - Anchorage, AK

VetJobs; Anchorage (AK); On-site; USD 67,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision plans

PTO starting at 15 days

Holidays 11 paid

401K with 6% match

Paid Family Leave

Employee Assistance

Disability Insurance

Service Awards and recognition

Job summary

The American Red Cross in Anchorage seeks a Disaster Workforce Engagement Manager to guide volunteers and staff, building a robust volunteer network to deliver comfort and care during disasters.

You will deploy regionally, collaborate with partners, and ensure readiness across communities, with travel as needed and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• Minimum 5 years of related experience building and leading volunteer teams.
• Travel may be required; deployments outside region yearly.
• Valid driver's license with good driving record.

Responsibilities

• Lead and energize volunteer workforce to deliver disaster services.
• Build programs to engage volunteers across communities.
• Coordinate with volunteer services staff and partners.
• Prepare communities to respond to disasters and mobilize resources.
• Deploy regionally for disaster response per OPS requirements.

Skills

Coordinate staff & volunteers

Interpersonal communication

Collaboration with diverse groups

Microsoft Office

Work nights/weekends

Education

Bachelor's degree

Equivalent education/experience

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job Description

ATTENTION MILITARY AFFILIATED JOB SEEKERS - Our organization works with partner companies to source qualified talent for their open roles. The following position is available to Veterans, Transitioning Military, National Guard and Reserve Members, Military Spouses, Wounded Warriors, and their Caregivers. Unless specifically stated otherwise, this role is "On-Site" at the location detailed in the job post.

WHY CHOOSE US?

Joining The American Red Cross is like nothing else - its 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.

Where Your Career is a Force for Good!

What You Need To Know

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.

• 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.

Minimum Education Required

Bachelors

Additional Qualifications/Responsibilities

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

• Bachelor's degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience required.
• Minimum 5 years of related experience with building, mobilizing, leading, and developing volunteer teams to execute a social services program or service.
• Travel: Travel may be required. For positions applicable to Disaster Services, deployment to disaster operations outside the assigned region is required.
• A current valid driver's license and good driving record is required

Skills And Abilities:

• 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.

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.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications):

• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail
• Experience supporting and engaging volunteers
• Background in program development is preferred
• Flexibility and adaptability in a dynamic environment

Compensation: The salary range for this position is $67,000 to $72,000. Note that American Red Cross salaries are aligned to the specific geographic location in which the work is primarily performed. Other factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, how many years of experience you have, and comparison to other employees already in this role.

This job will be posted for a minimum of five business days and extended if the applicant pool needs to be expanded. This role is not eligible for relocation assistance.

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

Physical requirements are those present in normal office environment conditions. Operational flexibility is required to meet sudden and unpredictable needs. Ability to use a personal computer, applicable software, and office equipment for sustained periods of time. May include sitting for long periods of time, driving a vehicle, and working under challenging conditions.

City Anchorage

State Alaska

Job Category Management

Job Code Health_Safety Health_Safety

Affiliate Sponsor American Red Cross

Salary Range $60,000-$75,000