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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 (Job Overview): 

As one of the nation’s premier humanitarian organizations, the American Red Cross is dedicated to helping people in need throughout the United States and, in association with other Red Cross networks, throughout the world.  We depend on the many generous contributions of time, blood, and money from the American public to support our lifesaving services and programs.  If you share our passion for helping people, join us in this excellent career opportunity.  

The American Red Cross Disaster Cycle Services Long-Term Recovery (LTR) team is seeking an innovative recovery professional to lead the design and implementation of Red Cross long-term recovery programming, with a focus on community mobilization and workforce development.

This role partners with Red Cross divisions, regions and community organizations to support the transition from disaster response to long-term recovery, and to build a skilled volunteer cadre to assist in community recovery efforts. It works with community-based recovery groups to support effective program delivery driving successful long-term recovery outcomes.

This position collaborates closely with national headquarters, region, division and cadre management functions to ensure the Community Recovery workforce is prepared to meet evolving community recovery needs

Responsibilities:

Program Management

• Identify sustainable programming in alignment with known community recovery needs and priorities in the long-term recovery phase.
• Support Red Cross Long-Term Recovery Operations to integrate LTR programs and services into broader community recovery plans.
• Establish and maintain strong partnerships with community-based recovery groups and other relevant stakeholders involved in long-term recovery efforts, to facilitate communication, coordination, and collaboration.
• Expand partnerships and promote resource sharing to improve community-based recovery outcomes.
• Identify opportunities for continuous process improvement and program evolution, including advancing support for diversity, equity, and inclusion in program and process.
• Develop, prepare and deliver reports, briefings, and presentations for internal and external stakeholders.
• Collaborate across the Long-Term Recovery Section. Support development of guidance for integrating grants, preparedness, and individual resilience programs within community recovery.
• Work with stakeholders across Community Operations, other branches, and region/division teams to develop, implement, and evaluate a unified community mobilization strategy for both steady-state and operational settings.

Workforce

• Collaborate with cadre managers and national, division, and region stakeholders to recruit, develop, and engage a highly skilled volunteer workforce supporting community recovery.
• Assess and identify opportunities for cadre engagement and development.
• Plan and deliver training to build volunteer cadre skills aligned with community recovery needs. Coordinate with Long Term Recovery Section, Workforce Engagement and Training to ensure ample learning opportunities (courses/sessions and leader development opportunities) are available and aligned to skill and responder needs.
• Regularly conduct continuing education calls to inform, communicate, and engage the workforce with program, policy