Program Specialist, Disaster Workforce Engagement
About The Position
Joining the American Red Cross offers a unique experience, feeling as much as doing. You become an integral part of the world's largest humanitarian network, working alongside exceptional yet unassuming individuals. This diverse team is unified in its mission. You will grow your career within a movement that matters, where success is measured by the lives touched, communities restored, and individuals empowered to create positive change. Choosing to be a force for good means having mentors who support your growth on a purposeful career path, aligning your work with a mission larger than oneself. The organization provides competitive compensation and benefits, fostering a community that values employees both professionally and personally.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience required.
- Minimum 3 years of 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 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.
Nice To Haves
- Travel may be required.
- For positions applicable to Disaster Services, deployment to disaster operations outside the assigned region is required.
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 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 an 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.
Benefits
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
