Senior Director, Community Response Operations

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Please use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox when accessing Candidate Home. By joining the American Red Cross you will touch millions of lives every year and experience the greatness of the human spirit at its best. Are you ready to be part of the world's largest humanitarian network? Join us-Where your Career is a Force for Good! Job Description: Joining The American Red Cross is like nothing else - it's as much something you feel as something you do. You become a vital part of the world's largest humanitarian network. Joining a team of welcoming individuals who are exceptional, yet unassuming. Diverse, yet uncompromising in unity. You grow your career within a movement that matters, where success is measured in people helped, communities made whole, and individuals equipped to never stop changing lives and situations for the better. When you choose to be a force for good, you'll have mentors who empower your growth along a purposeful career path. You align your life's work with an ongoing mission that's bigger than all of us. As you care for others, you're cared for with competitive compensation and benefits. You join a community that respects who you are away from work as much as what you do while at work. Where Your Career is a Force for Good! WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: This is a people manager position reporting to the Senior Director, Community Operations. The role provides strategic leadership and end‑to‑end oversight of regionally‑managed level 1 response operations. The position will ensure programs are delivered consistently, aligned with organizational priorities, and grounded in a strong understanding of the systems, processes, and infrastructure that enable effective service delivery. Responsibilities include shaping and assessing program strategies, overseeing operational performance, and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement, with a focus on client experience, capacity building, and community mobilization. The position ensures that community response efforts are supported by scalable, sustainable infrastructure and integrated workflows across teams, partners, and technology platforms. This role designs flexible, community‑informed approaches while maintaining visibility into the full operational ecosystem, from field execution to underlying support systems. Additionally, the position leads the integration of community response and recovery operations priorities into the organization's overall business plan, ensuring alignment between strategic objectives, operational capabilities, and infrastructure readiness WHERE YOUR CAREER IS A FORCE FOR GOOD: Formulate community response operations strategy in the development and implementation of programs, evaluate overall activities of programs to ensure consistency with the direction of the organization, and exercise control over management personnel responsible for specific programs. Ensure consistent delivery of community response operations programs, quality and growth of programs and the integration with other programs within the organization. Review community response operations program to ensure progress is being accomplished toward overall program objectives and make change recommendations based on business needs. Develop and implement short and long-term strategies to integrate community response operations priorities into the overall organization business plan and manage the execution of those strategies. Hire, manage, and evaluate direct and indirect staff. Direct staff in the development and implementation of departmental policies, procedures and programs. Engage volunteers in a meaningful way. Collaborate proactively with cross‑functional colleagues to align strategies, share expertise, and support the development and execution of complementary program initiatives across the organization. WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED: Education: Bachelor's degree required. Experience: Minimum 10 years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and related experience required. Management Experience: 7 years of management experience. Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to think critically and strategically required. The ability to develop and implement an organizational vision which integrates key American Red Cross goals, priorities, values, and other factors is critical. Candidate must demonstrate the ability to balance change and continuity--to continually strive to improve customer focus and organizational performance within the Red Cross framework, to create a work environment that encourages innovation, and to maintain focus, intensity and persistence, even under adversity. The ability to design and implement strategies which develop direct reports and others in the organization, and foster integrity and trust in meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals and the ability to make timely and effective decisions and produce results through strategic planning and the implementation

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