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:
- 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
- Projects and local response activities will be assigned according to the
activities you are training in: feeding, sheltering, distribution of emergency supplies, or reunification.
- 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
Details
- Time Commitment: A few hours per month
- Recurrence: Recurring
- Cause Areas: Community Development, Disaster Relief, Housing & Homelessness, Volunteering
- Good For: Public Groups, Age 55+, International Volunteers
- Participation Requirements: Driver’s License, Background Check, Attend Orientation
- Age Requirement: 18+