Disaster Services/Community Partnerships Team Member

• Meet with diverse communities within the chapter boundaries with a focus on increasing access, trust, and information while performing core community engagement activities: community meetings, neighborhood canvassing, neighborhood services, partnerships, and neighborhood recruitment;
• Share information about Red Cross services available to diverse groups through a preferred community language;
• Work on a Community Engagement Team led by a Team Leader to implement community engagement goals and increase Red Cross presence;
• If requested by Volunteer Services, support recruitment events by engaging communities to learn about and join Red Cross activities;

• Willingness to comply with Red Cross COVID-19 policies for in-person volunteer activities.
• Experience working with immigrants, underserved and/or undocumented populations, required
• Willingness to learn and grow personal competency about other cultures, required
• Experience working with communities at a grassroots level, required

Ability to:

• follow and implement requests received from supervisor with little or no supervision, required
• adapt to change, negotiate compromise and tolerate ambiguity, required
• build effective relationships with others who can help with work-related goals. required
• be sensitive in human interactions to diversity inclusiveness, required
• use facilitative leadership and collaboration techniques to build and manage relationships, required
• use computer systems such as: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, required

• Disaster Cycle Services: An Overview
• Mass Care: An Overview
• Everyone is Welcome
• Partner Engagement Essentials
• Psychological First Aid: Helping Others in Times of Stress
• Soft Skills for Community Engagement
• Working with Immigrant and Undocumented Populations in a Disaster Response

• Learn more about facilitating meetings
• Learn more about participatory assessments
• Grow in understanding about the Red Cross programs and supporting increased community awareness and access to those services
• Train to serve as a CEP worker during disaster relief operation

1 year, renewable

20 hours a month