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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

The Regional Executive-CEO oversees the achievement of core mission delivery including performance targets in mission, communications/marketing, volunteer services, operational management, blood donor sponsorship support and recruitment, and fundraising. Serves as the face of the American Red Cross for various community initiatives; the media, donors, biomedical initiatives, blood sponsors and their communities. Manage regional functional officers chapter leaders. Partner in a matrix system structure with division leadership to ensure organizational programs are executed. Develop and engage volunteer boards and community volunteer leadership. Builds a diverse and an engaged regional employee and volunteer workforce representative of the communities served and who uphold the core values of the American Red Cross.

WHERE YOUR CAREER IS A FORCE GOOD

1. Deliver overall targets/goals of the region including service delivery, workforce engagement, biomed support, revenue, and expense. Maintain compliance with corporate governance, policies, and governmental regulations. Ensure sound financial management and public accountability for contributions, income, expense, and all Red Cross assets. In partnership with division leadership, provide leadership and management of assigned staff, deliver Red Cross programs and services and uphold the core values of the organization.

2. In conjunction with the division fundraising & development leadership, work together to achieve the fundraising goals across assigned region.  Actively participate in developing fundraising strategies and fundraising efforts to grow financial resources within the region.

3.Build and cultivate strong external relationships with key organizations and community leaders. Partners include donors, blood sponsors, governments, corporations, civic organizations, military, and other community charitable and nonprofit agencies.

4. Ensure strong visibility for the American Red Cross in the regional jurisdiction. Increase and leverage community awareness and commitment to the American Red Cross by being an active community participant. Ensure regular local media and social media communications regarding all Red Cross services and regional/national activities, consistent with regional/national communication strategies.

5. Build a strong collaborative environment across all lines of service and business units in the region to effectively deliver against the Red Cross mission. Provide leadership and strategy for improved performance. Ensure that community needs are communicated to the lines of services and business units and that the American Red Cross programs and capacity needs are communicated to the community.

6. Build regional capacity for service delivery in all lines of service through program development and the engagement and retention of volunteers and partners. Ensure consistent, responsive, and timely delivery of high-quality services throughout the region. Ensure youth and young adults are engaged through a network of Red Cross Clubs which are integrated into the service delivery plans. May be called upon to serve roles in coordination with national response operations.

7. Oversee the board members and community volunteer leaders within an assigned region or geographic area. Build and guide activities of chapter boards. Ensure diversity of board leadership, representation of major organizations and community lea