American RED Cross

American RED Cross

State Relations Disaster Liaison

Albany, NY

Sponsorship not specified$60k-$64kDetected 5 days ago
ExcelLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMicrosoft Office

About the role

  • Represents Red Cross interests and communicates positions, strategy and deliverables to EMAs through frequent interfaces including preparedness messaging; response planning and readiness.
  • O perates as a part of the Regional team.
  • Responsible for collaboration with local government partnerships, preparation, and response and recovery management.

Responsibilities

  • Develop a volunteer workforce to represent the Red Cross as a regular presence at EMA to manage relationships and maintain familiarity with operations in those offices.
  • Supports EMA planning, exercising and training for preparedness, response, and recovery in assigned Region or territory; representing Red Cross interests and articulating Red Cross capacity to support plans during operations.
  • Participate in the recruitment, development, training, and readiness of a leadership cadre of volunteers appropriate to meeting both blue and gray sky activity with EMA to assure a unified voice of ARC to this partner.
  • Act as Red Cross SME to EMAs for all phases of planning and operations; acting as resources to EMA partners throughout the Region.
  • Supports DPM and the region in the development of partner relationships in the community to perform the disaster cycle.
  • Support the development and maintenance of strong partnerships and relationships.
  • Engages region in increasing their partner recruitment through community meetings and individual agency relationship building.
  • Leads Region in assessing the needs of potential partners and creating development plans for each organization, manages development strategies across the region.

Requirements

  • The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
  • While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit
  • The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms.
  • The employee is occasionally required to stand
  • The employee must have the ability to work in a small cubicle and have the ability to sit at a computer terminal for an extended period of time.
  • They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.

Skills

  • Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
  • Intermediate level proficiency with Microsoft Office software, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
  • Ability to work outside of regular duty hours including nights and weekends.

Compensation

  • As you care for others, you're cared for with competitive compensation and benefits.

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental Vision plans
  • Health Spending Accounts & Flexible Spending Accounts
  • PTO: Starting at 19 days a year; based on FLSA status and tenure

Company info

  • Specific functions of this position include program implementation, remote team building of employees and volunteers, and soliciting feedback from end customers.

This listing is sourced directly from American RED Cross's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.