Regional Mass Care Manager

American Red Cross; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 78,000; Full time

Job summary

A humanitarian organization is seeking a Regional Mass Care Manager in Seattle. This role involves leading volunteer teams and coordinating disaster response services, including sheltering and feeding programs. The ideal candidate has significant experience in social services and holds a Bachelor’s degree. Benefits include competitive compensation, comprehensive health packages, a 401K match, and opportunities for career growth.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision plans

401K with 6% match

Paid Family Leave

Flexible Spending Accounts

15 days PTO

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience leading volunteer teams in social services.
• Valid Driver's License required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support a diverse volunteer team.
• Implement disaster cycle services activities.
• Develop disaster volunteers for community service.
• Coordinate community engagement for disaster response.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Analytical skills

Decision-making skills

Leadership

Community engagement

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Overview

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 Regional Mass Care Manager, you will be responsible for regionwide mass care planning to ensure essential disaster services, including feeding, sheltering, household pets, distribution of emergency supplies and reunification, are available and delivered in a seamless fashion. 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.

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, and 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. Lead and empower a diverse team of volunteers.
• 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 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 assigned geographic area, or functional activities in the region in alignment with the Disaster Cycle Services Concept of Operations.

PAY INFORMATION:

The salary range for this position is (Washington State): $77,968.80-$77,968.80.

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.

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.
• Valid Driver\'s License

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 individuals 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, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 15 pounds and occasionally up to 30 pounds. Specific vision abilities required include close, distance, color, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. The work environment will consist of moderate noise. The employee must have the ability to work in a small cubicle and sit at a computer terminal for an extended period of time.

WHAT WILL GIVE YOU THE COMPETITIVE EDGE (Preferred Qualifications):

• Relationship management
• Mentoring volunteer workforce
• Good management skills
• Good negotiation skills
• Ability to work across different lines of communications
• Process management
• Adaptability
• Familiarity in Mass Care
• Logistics and Operations skills a plus
• Must be very organized
• Must be great at planning
• Must be a quick learner
• Planning and organizational skills a must

DISCLAIMER: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this position. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.

BENEFITS FOR YOU:

Our comprehensive package includes:

• 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
• 401K with 6% match
• Paid Family Leave
• Employee Assistance
• Disability and Insurance: Short + Long Term
• Service Awards and recognition

Apply now! Joining our team will provide you with the opportunity to make your career a force for good!

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.

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