Job Description

Overview

We are seeking a Community Disaster Program Manager for the U.S. Virgin Islands Region in St. Croix. Current residents of St. Croix preferred.

Job Description: The American Red Cross is the worlds largest humanitarian network. This role requires collaborating with Volunteer Services, engaging partners in the community, and ensuring readiness resources, facilities, supplies, and local vendors to address gaps. You will work with volunteers to ensure communities are ready to respond to disasters.

What You Need to Know (Job Overview)

As a Community Disaster Program Manager, you will ensure effective collaboration with Volunteer Services; identify, mobilize, and engage partners in all communities in the assigned geographic area; determine current readiness resources, facilities, supplies, local vendors, and strategies for addressing gaps; and work with volunteers to ensure that the communities you serve are ready to respond to disasters.

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Empower Volunteers: Lead and support 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: Implement either disaster cycle services activities within the assigned geographic area or specific functional activities within the region.
• Mission Capacity Building: Develop and support disaster volunteers who are the primary workforce, and representative of the communities they serve, both culturally and linguistically. Cultivate and develop Disaster Leadership Volunteers, including volunteer partners, to meet specific responsibilities as part of their work in disaster readiness, preparedness, response, and recovery.
• Engage Community: Lead and coordinate efforts in the assigned geographic area 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.
• 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 the Red Cross disaster subject matter expert within the assigned geographic area to maximize Red Cross presence and community engagement and mobilization. Prospect and partner with organizations and leaders supporting frontline communities and community resiliency before, during, and after disasters.
• Ready to Respond: Initiate and coordinate disaster relief operations in the assigned geographic area, or functional activities in the region in alignment with the Disaster Cycle Services Concept of Operations.

Qualifications (Minimum)

• Education: Bachelor's degree required, or an equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• Experience: Minimum 5 years of related experience with building, mobilizing, leading and developing volunteer teams to execute a social services program or service.
• Travel required.

Required Skills and Abilities

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Analytical and decision-making skills to interpret program trends, formulate recommendations, and develop creative processes for continuous program or service improvements.
• Proven ability to collaborate with diverse groups representing the demographics of the community, manage multiple priorities, facilitate, problem solve, market, lead, and partnership manage.
• Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Ability to work outside regular duty hours including nights and weekends.

Residency Requirements

• 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.

This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met to perform the essential functions of this job. The employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to handle or feel, and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee may stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 15 pounds and occasionally up to 30 pounds. The work environment is a moderate-noise office setting. The employee must be able to sit at a computer terminal for extended periods.

Disclaimer: This description outlines the general nature and level of work performed. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, or skills.

Benefits

Our comprehensive package includes:

• 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
• 401K with 6% match
• Paid Family Leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Service Awards and recognition

Apply now. Joining our team will provide you with the opportunity to make your career a force for good!

The American Red Cross is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable state and local fair chance laws.

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