Vice President, Region Leader, Spend Management
Vizient, Inc
Vice President, Community Support
Circle 4 Marketing, LLC
full-time
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Location: District of Columbia, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $160,000 - $200,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
Chef
About the role
- Amplify WCK’s impact locally by building and leading a competency-driven community response strategy.
- Ensure communities are embedded in organization-led and community-led responses, aligned with WCK’s “neighbors feeding neighbors” principle.
- Oversee attraction, support, engagement, and retention of community responders and volunteers; cultivate global network of chefs, food partners, and local leaders.
- Serve as central hub for WCK’s community response teams and integrate communities into multi-participant response model.
- Lead multiple director-level functions and partner closely with Response Operations, Security, Response Support, and Response People Operations.
- Build and maintain structural framework including KMS-integrated playbooks, competency definitions, and databases for community engagement.
- Develop and manage the Response Corps, establish volunteer development pathways, and scale volunteer operations for major responses.
- Implement and support community teams and the "reservist" approach to maintain activation readiness while remaining rooted locally.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Digital and Data, Communications, Development, and other teams to support tools, training, and fundraising.
- Capture lessons learned and embed continuous improvement metrics into KMS; design evaluation systems for community-led response effectiveness.
Requirements
- 10–15 years of progressive leadership experience in community engagement, volunteer management, or international development.
- Proven track record of building and managing large-scale volunteer or community networks.
- Experience in emergency response, humanitarian operations, or crisis management.
- Demonstrated success in cross-cultural relationship building and community organizing.
- Strong background in network development and partnership management.
- Experience managing multiple direct reports and complex organizational structures.
- Experience implementing or working within competency-based frameworks, ensuring authority and readiness are tied to verified skills.
- Familiarity with Knowledge Management Systems (KMS), including capturing lessons learned, playbooks, and escalation protocols.
- Digital and data fluency, with experience using omnichannel platforms and volunteer management systems for onboarding, training, compliance, and engagement.
- Proven ability to design and manage scalable systems that integrate local and community responders into global response structures.
- Experience applying continuous improvement frameworks, embedding feedback and lessons from activations into organizational systems.
- Ability to deploy to emergency response locations when needed.
- Physical and mental resilience to work in challenging field conditions.
- Capability to maintain effectiveness in high-stress, rapidly changing environments.
- Must be able to adapt to varying cultural contexts and operational environments.
- Alignment with the mission and values of WCK.
- Valid passport and ability to travel internationally.
- Skills and Competencies: Exceptional relationship-building and networking abilities; strong understanding of community dynamics and local engagement strategies; cultural competency and sensitivity; strategic thinking with hands-on execution; excellent communication and influencing skills; experience with volunteer management systems; crisis leadership and decision-making abilities; bilingual capabilities preferred (Spanish highly valued).
- Preferred Experience: Background in culinary arts, food service, or hospitality; peer-to-peer or grassroots organizing models; knowledge of international humanitarian standards; experience with chef networks; rapid response or emergency management operations; leveraging digital platforms or knowledge systems; exposure to omnichannel engagement or global contact center models in humanitarian contexts.
