Community Disaster Program Specialist

The Community Disaster Program Specialist guides, leads, and supports teams of trained volunteers to deliver comfort and care in times of disaster. The role involves creating and maintaining volunteer engagement, supporting disaster response operations, and collaborating with community partners to prepare for and respond to disasters.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate and support a diverse volunteer team responsible for the implementation of volunteer-led disaster cycle services programming.
• Ensure disaster cycle services are delivered in a rapid, accessible, and equitable manner, both culturally and linguistically, to meet urgent disaster-caused needs.
• Assist with the successful implementation of specific disaster cycle services program activities or functions within an assigned geographic area.
• Engage disaster volunteers who are representative of the communities they serve, both culturally and linguistically.
• Support local efforts to prepare and mobilize communities and engage partners to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters and emergencies.
• Implement plans to meet assigned targets for volunteer engagement and volunteer-led Disaster Action Team response to local home fires or support specific function tasks within assigned geographic area.
• Act as the local point of contact for partners and communities, partnering with local organizations and leaders supporting frontline communities and community resiliency before, during and after disasters.
• Participate in disaster response operations in the region in alignment with the Disaster Cycle Services Concept of Operations, upon completion of training requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience required.
• Minimum 3 years of related experience.
• A valid driver’s license and a clean MVR.
• Ability to coordinate staff and volunteer activities.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Proven record of accomplishment of collaboration with diverse groups and individuals 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.
• Candidate must reside no more than 1 hour from Owensboro, KY area, including Davies County, Hopkins County, Hancock County or Ohio County.

Skills

• Volunteer Coordination
• Disaster Operations
• Community Engagement
• Partnership Management
• Staff Coordination
• MS Word
• MS Excel
• MS PowerPoint
• Microsoft Outlook
• Facilitation
• Marketing
• Leadership
• Problem Solving

Languages

English