Western North Carolina Recovery and Resilience Fellow

About SBP

At SBP, we believe that every community deserves a future where resilience outshines disaster. Founded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2006, we are a social impact organization on a mission to shrink the time between disaster and recovery. By empowering communities to rebound quickly—regardless of race, economic status, or location—we’re building a world where strength, equity, and opportunity prevail.

• Training and Advising:
  Equipping individuals, communities, nonprofits, businesses, and governments with cutting-edge strategies to prepare for, mitigate, and recover from disasters.
• Building Resilience:
  Constructing durable, disaster-resistant homes while sharing our proven models with others to amplify recovery efforts.
• Advocating for Change:
  Pushing for systemic improvements that make disaster recovery more predictable, efficient, and fair for all survivors.

SBP’s impact is powered by the passion of volunteers, Ameri Corps members, and partners, alongside a dedicated team driven by our core values: racial equity, environmental sustainability, and a relentless commitment to helping those most in need. Together, we’ve changed thousands of lives—and we’re just getting started.

If you’re inspired to make a difference and driven to build stronger, more resilient communities, we’d love for you to join us. Let’s create lasting change, together.

The Resilience Fellow will work alongside partners to:

• Understand current disaster risks and ongoing recovery in Western North Carolina, post-Hurricane Helene
• Understand current local and state mitigation and resilience priorities
• Identify underserved communities and recovery partners in need of additional support
• Coordinate, develop, and pursue funds to support recovery, resilience, and mitigation projects

The perfect candidate will have experience with disaster recovery programs, having worked with a variety of stakeholders to include local governments and/or nonprofits and long-term recovery groups. This candidate should have a general understanding of Federal and State/Local recovery funding, and possess the knowledge to help secure additional funding and streamline opportunities for resilience and mitigation efforts in Western NC.

This is a 2-year position as part of the SBP Resilience and Recovery Fellowship Program.

• Serve as a recovery and resilience champion to communities in Western North Carolina impacted by Hurricane Helene, working with state and local stakeholders to access and/or influence funding for preparedness, recovery, resilience, mitigation, and climate adaptation projects to mitigate against future losses in a disaster.
• Successful implementation of recovery projects will require a dynamic combination of human capacity, actionable projects, and streamlined access.

• Fellows will accelerate investment through available funding sources, including local, state, federal, private, philanthropic and public opportunities.
• To be successful, the Fellow must understand regional and local priorities, identify public and private stakeholders, review current applicable plans in place, and assess and document gaps.
• Fellows must also be skilled translators and conveners of stakeholders and opportunities, capable of building trust and generating options for action as local communities characterize their vulnerabilities.

• Create an opportunity for future employment in the community they serve following their 2-year Fellowship
• Help facilitate the SBP-led programs, identify program opportunities, and share the expertise of SBP’s Advisory Services Team with other nonprofits, municipalities, non-governmental, and volunteer organizations to increase capacity and efficacy.

• Proven success in project management and/or grant writing.
• Ability to take complex regulations, funding opportunities and community dynamics and translate them into impactful proposals and achievable projects.
• Excellent relationship management skills to enhance internal organizational relations and external community interactions.
• Understanding of CDBG-DR, Federal, and/or disaster recovery programs.
• Organized and detail-oriented with exceptional…