Community Disaster Program Manager

As a Community Disaster Program Manager with the American Red Cross, you will ensure effective collaboration with Volunteer Services; identify, mobilize, and engage partners in all communities in the assigned geographic area; and determine current readiness resources, facilities, supplies, local vendors, and strategies for addressing gaps. This full-time position covers Huntsville, AL and Birmingham, AL. Applicants must live within Etowah, Cherokee, DeKalb, Marshall, or Jackson counties in Alabama, preferably Gadsden, AL. Note: this position is not eligible for relocation assistance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and support a diverse volunteer team implementing disaster cycle services programming (mass care, response, community preparedness, recovery, planning, and readiness)
  
• Develop and support disaster volunteers as the primary workforce, representative of the communities served
  
• Lead community engagement efforts to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters and emergencies
  
• Build relationships and collaborate in a matrix management environment with internal partners
  
• Act as the Red Cross disaster subject matter expert within the assigned geographic area
  
• Initiate and coordinate disaster relief operations in alignment with the Disaster Cycle Services Concept of Operations
  
• Build trust and increase access to disaster services in diverse, historically underserved communities

Regional disaster employees are required to deploy to disaster relief operations outside their region at least once a year.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience
  
• Minimum 5 years of related experience building, mobilizing, leading, and developing volunteer teams for a social services program
  
• A valid driver's license and clean MVR

Required Skills:

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
  
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills
  
• Proven collaboration with diverse groups, managing multiple priorities, facilitation, and partnership management
  
• Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
  
• Ability to work outside regular duty hours including nights and weekends

Benefits include medical/dental/vision plans, health and flexible spending accounts, PTO starting at 15 days a year, 11 paid holidays, 401K with 6% match, paid family leave, employee assistance, and short/long-term disability insurance.

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Location

Huntsville, Alabama, USA34.729550-86.585316USAL