Deputy Regional Disaster Officer

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.

As a Deputy Regional Disaster Officer, you will oversee, through a team to include both paid and volunteer workforce, the successful implementation of the volunteer-led disaster cycle services program throughout the region in alignment with established program standards. 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.

1. Empower Volunteers:
Direct an employee and diverse volunteer team responsible for the implementation of volunteer-led disaster services programming throughout the region. Ensure disaster 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. Lead the Program:
Oversee the successful implementation of the entire disaster cycle services program in alignment with Fundamental Principles and established program standards.

3. Mission Capacity Building:
Champion and drive the development of regional Disaster Leadership Volunteers, including volunteer partners, to meet specific responsibilities as part of their work in disaster readiness, preparedness, response, and recovery.

4. Engage Community:
Lead regional 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:
Build relationships and collaborate in the matrix management environment with internal partners, including employees and volunteers.

6. Know Your Communities:
Act as the regional disaster leader and Red Cross disaster subject matter expert.

7. Ready to Respond:
Initiate, scale, coordinate and manage disaster relief operations in the region in alignment with the Disaster Cycle Services Concept of Operations.

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor's degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience required.
• Experience:
  
  Minimum 7 years of related experience.
• Management
  
  Experience:
  
  5 years of management experience of paid or volunteer workforce.
• Valid Driver's License

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated analytical and decision-making skills to interpret program trends, results, formulate recommendations, and develop creative processes for continuous program or service improvements.
• 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.

• 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.