Disaster Workforce Engagement Specialist

The Disaster Workforce Engagement Specialist supports the California Gold Country Region by guiding, leading, and supporting teams of trained volunteers to deliver comfort and care during disasters. The role involves creating and maintaining volunteer engagement, ensuring communities are ready to respond to disasters, and participating in disaster response operations.

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, focusing on frontline communities.
• Assist with the successful implementation of specific disaster cycle services program activities or functions 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, 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.
• Travel may be required. For positions applicable to Disaster Services, deployment to disaster operations outside the assigned region is required.
• A current valid driver's license and good driving record is required.
• 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.

Skills

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

Languages

English