Regional Disaster Action Team Manager
American Red Cross
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Wichita • Kansas • Oklahoma • United States
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About the role
- Lead, develop, and support Disaster volunteer teams responsible for local preparedness, response, and client care management.
- Work with volunteers to ensure that the communities you serve are ready to respond to disasters.
- Implement disaster cycle services activities within assigned geographic area or specific functional activities within the region.
- Develop and support disaster volunteers who are the primary workforce, and representative of the communities they serve, both culturally and linguistically.
- Lead and coordinate efforts in assigned geographic area to prepare and mobilize communities and engage partners with specific functional expertise and assets.
- Act as the Red Cross disaster subject matter expert within assigned geographic area.
- Initiate and coordinate disaster relief operations in assigned geographic area, or functional activities in the region.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience required.
- Minimum 5 years of related experience with building, mobilizing, leading, and developing volunteer teams to execute a social services program or service
- Valid Driver’s License & a clean MVR REQUIRED
- 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.
Benefits
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Hard Skills & Tools
disaster cycle servicesclient care managementprogram trends analysisservice improvements
Soft Skills
interpersonal skillsverbal communicationwritten communicationanalytical skillsdecision-making skillscollaborationproblem solvingleadershippartnership management
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeValid Driver’s License