Mass Care Team Member

The American Red Cross, through its strong network of volunteers, donors and partners, is always there in times of need. We aspire to turn compassion into action so that...

• all people affected by disaster across the country and around the world receive care, shelter and hope;
• our communities are ready and prepared for disasters;
• everyone in our country has access to safe, lifesaving blood and blood products;
• all members of our armed services and their families find support and comfort whenever needed; and
• in an emergency, there are always trained individuals nearby, ready to use their Red Cross skills to save lives.

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). 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.

• 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.

• 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

Seniority Level: Associate

Industry: Civic and Social Organizations and Non-profit Organizations