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By joining the American Red Cross you will touch millions of lives
every year and experience the greatness of the human spirit at its best.
Are you ready to be part of the world's largest humanitarian
network?
Job Description:
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.
Where Your Career is a Force for Good!
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW (Job Overview):
As a Community Disaster Program Specialist, you will guide, lead and
support teams of trained volunteers to deliver comfort and care in times of
disaster. You will also 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.
WHERE YOUR CAREER IS A FORCE FOR GOOD (Key Responsibilities):
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Mission Capacity Building: Engage disaster volunteers who are
the primary workforce, and representative of the communities they serve,
both culturally and linguistically.
4. Engage Community: Support local efforts to prepare and mobilize
communities and engage partners to prepare for, respond to, and recover
from disasters and emergencies.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED (Minimum Qualifications):
- Education: Bachelor's degree required, or equivalent combination of
education and related experience required.
- Experience: Minimum 3 years of related experience.
- Valid Driver’s License
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.
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 and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 15 pounds and
occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. Specific vision abilities
required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision,
peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. The work
environment will consist of moderate noise (i.e. business offices with
computers, phones and printers, light traffic). The employee must have the
ability to work in a small cubicle and have the ability to sit at a
computer terminal for an extended period of time.
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.
Apply now! Joining our team will provide you with the opportunity to make a difference every day.
The American Red Cross is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action
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.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered
for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance
Ordinance for Employers, San Diego Fair Chance Ordinance, the California
Fair Chance Act and any other applicable state and local laws.
AmeriCorps, the federal agency that brings people together through service,
and its partners — the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps Alums, National Peace
Corps Association, and the Service Year Alliance — launched Employers of
National Service to connect national service alumni with opportunities in
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