Assist Families after a Disaster - Join our Shelter Team!

Purpose: The purpose of this position is to perform Mass Care readiness and capacity building activities needed to enable effective service delivery (in a disaster response).

Responsibilities: Mass Care provides activities and services on a congregate basis to the

community as a whole including feeding, sheltering, reunification, and distribution of emergency supplies.

This position is responsible for the tasks involved in the Mass Care program including:

1) Support the annual mass care goals, RDO objectives, and regional/

chapter plan for mass care services through participation in meetings, projects, and local response activities

2) Projects and local response activities will be assigned according to the

activities you are training in: feeding, sheltering, distribution of emergency supplies, or reunification.

3) Projects may include tasks such as conducting facility surveys for

response activity sites, meeting with partners to build relationships,

conducting inventory and updating supply kits.

Qualifications:

Ability to:

• follow and implement requests received from supervisor with little or no supervision.
• adapt to change, negotiate compromise and tolerate ambiguity.
• build effective relationships with others who can help with work related goals.
• be sensitive in human interactions to diversity inclusiveness.
• work toward service associate position in at least one Mass Care activity

Requirements:

• Complete 8 hours of online training prior before deployment is considered.
• The Red Cross will cover travel, lodging and meals while volunteer is deployed during disaster relief efforts.
• Must be free to deploy for a 14 days period. Travel may be outside of home state.

Relationships: Works closely with all other Mass Care workers to ensure team goals are achieved.

Development Opp: Take the Mass Care Management 2017 course. Take training and gain experience required to serve as:

• Feeding, Sheltering, Reunification, or DES worker during operations.
• Mass Care Regional Program Lead or Mass Care Chapter/Territory Coordinator

Training:

• Disaster Cycle Services: An Overview (Required)
• Mass Care: An Overview (Required)
• Fundamental courses for all Mass Care activities strongly recommended