Senior Community Disaster Program Manager

About the role

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!

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. Functional activities include mass care, response, community preparedness, recovery, and planning and readiness.
• 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. Lead and empower a diverse team of volunteers and employees.
• 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