Regional DAT Manager

American Red Cross • Utica, NY

1d • $59,000 - $62,173

About The Position

Why Choose Us? 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. We are seeking a Regional DAT (Disaster Action Team) Manager for the Eastern New York Region. Can be based in Liverpool, Utica or Watertown, NY. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW (Job Overview): As a Disaster Action Team Manager, you will lead, develop, and support Disaster volunteer teams responsible for local preparedness, response, and client care management, as well as management of community and government relationships within an assigned geography. 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.

Requirements

• 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
• Travel: Travel required. Must have a current, valid driver's license.
• 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 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.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with volunteer engagement.

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. Work with regional disaster program management to create and improve plans for successfully meeting disaster cycle services programmatic vision.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental Vision plans
• Health Spending Accounts & Flexible Spending Accounts
• PTO: Starting at 19 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 Assistance
• Disability and Insurance: Short + Long Term
• Service Awards and recognition

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager