Community Disaster Program Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Hawaii.

📋 Description

• Facilitate productive collaboration with Volunteer Services

• Identify, mobilize, and engage partners within all communities across the designated geographic area

• Assess readiness resources, facilities, supplies, local vendors, and strategies to address gaps

• Collaborate with volunteers to ensure communities are prepared to respond to disasters

• Lead and support a diverse team of volunteers executing volunteer-led disaster cycle services programming

• Implement disaster cycle services activities or specific regional functional activities, such as mass care, response, preparedness, recovery, planning, and readiness

• Develop and support disaster volunteers, while nurturing Disaster Leadership Volunteers

• Coordinate community preparation and mobilization efforts, engaging partners with relevant expertise and resources

• Work collaboratively with internal employees and volunteers in a matrix management framework

• Act as the Red Cross disaster subject matter expert for the assigned geographic area

• Build partnerships that enhance frontline communities and community resilience before, during, and after disasters

• Initiate and coordinate disaster relief operations

• Deploy outside the region for disaster relief operations at least once annually

• Travel as required and operate within the assigned geographic area

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required, or an equivalent combination of education and related experience

• At least 5 years of relevant experience in building, mobilizing, leading, and developing volunteer teams for social services programs

• Valid driver's license with a clean driving record

• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills

• Analytical and decision-making capability to interpret program trends, propose recommendations, and develop innovative processes for continuous improvement

• Experience in collaborating with diverse groups, managing multiple priorities, facilitating, problem-solving, marketing, leadership, and partnership management

• Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook

• Availability to work outside of regular hours, including nights and weekends

• Ability to work within the Hawaii–Aleutian Time Zone (HST)

• Capacity to meet training and physical requirements for deployment

• Preferred: Previous Red Cross experience and familiarity with Red Cross systems

• Preferred: Background in volunteer management or engagement

• Preferred: Experience in emergency management or disaster services

• Preferred: Project management experience

• Preferred: Leadership skills, consensus-building abilities, stakeholder motivation, and management of projects in a matrix environment

• Preferred: Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and technical aptitude with complex systems, databases, and enterprise applications

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package

• Mentors who support your development along a meaningful career path

• Opportunities for career advancement and exposure to various types of disasters through deployments

• Allowances may be provided for personal circumstances and local response activities

• Commitment to Equal Opportunity employment

• Consideration under applicable fair-chance employment laws