Regional Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or an equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• At least 5 years of related experience building, mobilizing, leading, and developing volunteer teams to execute a social services program or service.
• Current valid driver’s license and good driving record.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Analytical and decision-making skills to interpret program trends and results, formulate recommendations, and develop creative continuous-improvement processes.
• Demonstrated collaboration with diverse groups and individuals representative of community demographics.
• Experience managing multiple priorities, facilitation, problem solving, marketing, leadership, and partnership management.
• Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Ability to work outside regular duty hours, including nights and weekends.
• Ability to meet training and physical capacity requirements for disaster deployment.
• Ability to meet the physical requirements of the position, including lifting or moving up to 30 pounds occasionally and sitting at a computer terminal for extended periods.

Nice To Haves

• Experience as a public safety or emergency services dispatcher, particularly in law enforcement, fire, or EMS.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support diverse volunteer teams implementing volunteer-led disaster cycle services throughout an assigned geographic area or regional functional activity.
• Implement disaster cycle services in an assigned area or specific functional activities across the region, including mass care, response, community preparedness, recovery, and planning and readiness.
• Work with regional disaster program management to create and improve plans for meeting disaster cycle services program goals.
• Develop and support disaster volunteers who are the primary workforce and represent the communities they serve culturally and linguistically.
• Cultivate and develop Disaster Leadership Volunteers, including volunteer partners, to fulfill disaster readiness, preparedness, response, and recovery responsibilities.
• Lead and coordinate efforts to prepare and mobilize communities and engage partners with relevant expertise and assets.
• Build relationships and collaborate with internal employees and volunteers in a matrix management environment.
• Serve as the Red Cross disaster subject matter expert in the assigned geographic area to strengthen organizational presence, community engagement, and mobilization.
• Initiate and coordinate disaster relief operations in the assigned area, or regional functional activities, in alignment with the Disaster Cycle Services Concept of Operations.
• Work daily within the assigned geographic area or region to provide leadership and functional support, engage and mobilize communities, and support volunteers.
• Deploy to disaster relief operations outside the region at least once a year.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Health Spending Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Paid time off starting at 15 days per year, based on FLSA status and tenure.
• 11 paid holidays, including six core holidays and five floating holidays.
• 401(k) with 6% match.
• Paid family leave.
• Employee assistance.
• Short- and long-term disability and insurance.
• Service awards and recognition.