Community Disaster Program Specialist

As a Community Disaster Program Specialist, you will guide, lead and support teams of trained volunteers to deliver comfort and care in times of disaster. You will also create and maintain a foundation of continuous and robust volunteer engagement using established processes and collaborating with volunteer services staff.

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 the urgent, disaster-caused needs of clients, with a focus on frontline communities.
• Assist with the successful implementation of either specific disaster cycle services program activities, or a specific disaster cycle services function within an assigned geographic area.
• Engage disaster volunteers who are the primary workforce, and 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.
• Partner 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 experience with social services, emergency management, disaster relief or non profit coordination or any other related experience.
• Ability to coordinate staff and volunteer activities.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• 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.
• Travel is required - 20%

Skills

• Emergency Management
• Disaster Relief Management
• Social Service
• Volunteer Coordination
• Staff Coordination
• Collaboration with Diverse Groups
• Multi-Priority Management
• Facilitation
• Problem Solving
• Marketing
• Leadership
• Partnership Management
• MS Word
• MS Excel
• MS PowerPoint
• Microsoft Outlook

Languages

English