Community Disaster Program Specialist - Hawthorne, NY

About the role

Join the American Red Cross Greater New York Region in Metro North, covering Rockland and Westchester Counties. This role is based in Hawthorne, NY, and preference is given to applicants residing in one of these counties.

Key Responsibilities

• Empower Volunteers: 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 urgent disaster-caused needs, with a focus on frontline communities.
• Support the Program: Assist with the successful implementation of specific disaster cycle services program activities or a specific disaster cycle services function within the assigned geographic area.
• Mission Capacity Building: Engage disaster volunteers who are the primary workforce and representative of the communities they serve, both culturally and linguistically.
• Engage Community: Support local efforts to prepare and mobilize communities and engage partners to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters and emergencies.
• 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 the assigned geographic area.
• 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.
• 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• Experience: Minimum 3 years of related experience.
• License: Current, valid driver's license with good driving record required.
• Skills and Abilities:
  • Ability to coordinate staff and volunteer activities
  • Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
  • Proven collaboration with diverse groups and individuals representative of all community demographics
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities, facilitation, problem solving, marketing, leadership, and partnership management
  • Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
  • Ability to work outside of regular duty hours, including nights and weekends
• Residency: Geographic Community Disaster employees are expected to work daily in their assigned geographic area to engage and mobilize communities and support volunteers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bilingual preferred

Physical Requirements

• Regularly required to sit; use hands to handle or feel; and talk or hear
• Frequently required to reach with hands and arms
• Occasionally required to stand; walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• Frequently lift and/or move up to 15 pounds; occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds
• Work environment: moderate noise (business offices with computers, phones, printers, light traffic)
• Ability to work in a small cubicle and sit at a computer terminal for extended periods

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Health Spending Accounts & Flexible Spending Accounts
• PTO: Starting at 19 days per year (based on FLSA status and tenure)
• 11 paid holidays (6 core + 5 floating)
• 401K with 6% match
• Paid Family Leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Disability and Insurance: Short + Long Term
• Service Awards and recognition

Pay

Salary range for this position in New York: $62,400 - $65,700. The American Red Cross aligns salaries to the specific geographic location where work is primarily performed. Actual salary may be determined by specific skills, years of experience, and comparison to other employees in the role. This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.