Regional Disaster Officer - Idaho, Montana and East Oregon Region

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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: Regional Disaster Officer - Idaho, Montana and East Oregon Region (Boise or Nampa Idaho) WHY CHOOSE US? 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! We are currently seeking a Regional Disaster Officer for our Idaho, Montana and East Oregon Region. The position will be based in Boise or Nampa Idaho. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW The Regional Disaster Officer (RDO) will oversee, through a team to include both paid and volunteer workforce, the successful implementation of the volunteer-led disaster cycle services program throughout the region in alignment with established program standards. Ensure employees and volunteers within a region are assigned specific relationship management responsibilities with community-based, non-governmental and faith-based organizations supporting disaster services, and key emergency management staff (i.e., relationship management). 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. Drivers for this work include the number of municipalities within its coverage area, the amount and complexity of program activity, presence of significant grant funding, geography, risk, population, frequency of events, and regional structure. 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. Perform all duties and responsibilities in alignment with the Fundamental Principles and in compliance with standard operating procedures and other applicable Federal, State, and local regulations. WHERE YOUR CAREER IS A FORCE GOOD 1. Empower Volunteers: Direct an employee and diverse volunteer team responsible for the implementation of volunteer-led disaster services programming throughout the region. Ensure disaster services are delivered in a rapid, accessible, and equitable manner, both culturally and linguistically, to meet the urgent, disaster-caused needs of our clients, with a focus on frontline communities. 2. Lead the Program: Oversee the successful implementation of the entire disaster cycle services program in alignment with Fundamental Principles and established program standards. 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 successfully meeting disaster services programmatic vision. Provide feedback and recommendations to support the continuous improvement process. 3. Mission Capacity Building: Champion and drive the development of regional Disaster Leadership Volunteers, including volunteer partners, to meet specific responsibilities as part of their work in disaster readiness, preparedness, response, and recovery. Develop and support disaster volunteers who are the primary workforce, and representative of the communities they serve , both culturally and linguistically. Lead and empower a diverse team of volunteers and employees. This includes, but is not limited to, hiring, training, coaching, delegating, coordinating, and evaluating and managing performance to ensure a well-qualified, empowered team and enhance programmatic success. 4. Engage Community: Lead regional efforts to prepare and mobilize communities and engage partners to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters and emergencies. Serve as Facilitative

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