Senior Community Disaster Program Manager

Job Overview

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Empower Volunteers: Lead and manage 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.
• Lead the Program: Oversee the successful implementation of either disaster cycle services activities within assigned geographic area, or specific functional activities within the region.
• Mission Capacity Building: Champion and drive the development of Disaster Leadership Volunteers, including volunteer partners, to meet specific responsibilities as part of their work in disaster readiness, preparedness, response, and recovery.
• Develop and support disaster volunteers who are the primary workforce, and representative of the communities they serve, both culturally and linguistically.
• Engage Community: Supervise the team’s efforts 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 in assigned geographic area.
• 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 a regional Red Cross disaster subject matter expert to maximize Red Cross presence and community engagement and mobilization.
• Ready to Respond: Initiate, scale, coordinate and manage disaster relief operations in the region, or functional activities in alignment with the Disaster Cycle Services Concept of Operations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience required.
• Experience: Minimum 5 years of related experience.
• Management Experience: 3 years of supervisory or management experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Must be able to develop relationships with chapter executives and chapter Community disaster program managers.
• Strong Critical Thinking Skills. Must be able to Identify issues and provide solutions. Responsible for tactics to support mission and goals.
• Strong Computer Skills. Volunteer management experience a plus.
• Must be able to make decisions based on data.
• Must be a servant leader.
• Senior Leadership Experience.

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