Regional Disaster Officer - Idaho, Montana and East Oregon Region

The Regional Disaster Officer oversees the volunteer-led disaster cycle services program throughout the Idaho, Montana and East Oregon region. The role involves leadership of paid and volunteer teams, community engagement, disaster response coordination, and partnership management to ensure effective disaster services delivery.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the volunteer-led disaster cycle services program throughout the region in alignment with established program standards.
• Ensure employees and volunteers are assigned specific relationship management responsibilities with community-based, non-governmental and faith-based organizations supporting disaster services, and key emergency management staff.
• Serve during times of disaster in an operational leadership role for any scale of disaster.
• Participate in a leadership role on larger operations for region, division, or nationwide.
• Responsible for local government partnerships, measurement and evaluation, information dissemination, preparedness, readiness, and response management.
• Provide leadership and functional support, engage and mobilize communities, and support volunteers.
• Support and guide disaster employees to accomplish mission work through meaningful engagement of volunteer workforce.
• Direct an employee and diverse volunteer team responsible for disaster services programming.
• Ensure disaster services are delivered in a rapid, accessible, and equitable manner, culturally and linguistically appropriate.
• Monitor, collect and analyze business data to improve services to individuals and communities.
• Ensure compliance with data protection and privacy regulations while managing sensitive disaster-related information.
• Work with regional leadership to create and improve plans for disaster services programmatic vision.
• Provide feedback and recommendations to support continuous improvement.
• Champion and drive development of regional Disaster Leadership Volunteers.
• Develop and support disaster volunteers representative of the communities they serve.
• Lead and empower a diverse team of volunteers and employees including hiring, training, coaching, delegating, coordinating, evaluating and managing performance.
• Lead regional efforts to prepare and mobilize communities and engage partners for disaster preparedness, response, and recovery.
• Serve as Facilitative Leader and Disaster Cycle Services Face of the Red Cross at executive level.
• Ensure inclusion of diverse stakeholders across the disaster cycle.
• Coordinate community listening and engagement activities with leadership and volunteers.
• Build relationships and collaborate in matrix management environment with internal partners.
• Provide situational awareness to senior regional leadership regarding disaster services performance, policy, and program doctrine.
• Communicate and partner with regional disaster program management in contiguous regions.
• Act as regional disaster executive and Red Cross disaster subject matter expert.
• Partner with state leaders of organizations supporting frontline communities and community resiliency.
• Lead implementation of national initiatives addressing evolving community needs in disasters.
• Initiate, scale, coordinate and manage disaster relief operations in alignment with Disaster Cycle Services Concept of Operations.
• Serve as leader for the region during disasters upon completion of training requirements.
• Deploy and participate in operations outside home region.
• Perform all assigned responsibilities under “grey sky” requirements with potential for deployment as directed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum of 7 years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and related experience required.
• 5 years of management experience of paid or volunteer workforce.
• Ability to work on a team.
• Proven track record of collaboration, facilitation, problem solving, leadership and partnership engagement.
• Demonstrated experience leading high-performing volunteer teams and effectively engaging and mobilizing communities and community-based organizations.
• Proven ability with analyzing, interpreting, and acting on business analytics, planning, technical writing, public speaking, project management, data entry and management, and process improvement.
• Ability to handle multiple priorities effectively, assimilate information quickly, analyze problems and implement solutions appropriately.
• Ability to work independently while developing and motivating a high functioning team of employees and volunteers.
• Excellent interpersonal skills in dealing with all levels of employees and volunteers across the enterprise.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills, including training, presentation and negotiating skills.
• Experience with budget management, oversight, and compliance.
• Must be analytical, customer oriented, flexible, organized, and able to operate with an orientation toward solutions, an external focus, and team orientation.
• Familiarity with program guidance and standards required.
• Proficiency in standard office technology tools such as cell phone, laptop, and Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel).
• Ability to work outside of regular duty hours including nights and weekends.
• May travel and participate in meetings and conferences throughout territory, state, and Red Cross system.
• Regional disaster employees are required to deploy to disaster relief operations outside of their region at a minimum of once a year.
• Employees must meet all training and physical capacity requirements for deployment.

Skills

• Disaster Risk Management and Response Coordination
• Volunteer Team Leadership
• Community Engagement
• Project Management
• Business Analytics
• Technical Writing
• Public Speaking
• Data Management
• Process Improvement
• Budget Management
• Compliance Oversight
• Training Delivery
• Presentation Skills
• Negotiation Skills
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Team Management
• Program Standards Familiarity
• Multi-Priority Management
• Deployment Readiness

Languages

English