Nonprofit
Published 4 months ago
Mass Care Team Member
On-site, Volunteer must be in or near Harlingen, TX
Details
Available Times:
Weekdays (daytime, evenings)
Time Commitment:
Flexible
Commitment Details:
1 year commitment as a volunteer at least
Recurrence:
Recurring
Volunteers Needed:
50
Cause Areas:
Disaster Relief, Rural Areas, Seniors & Retirement, Veterans
Benefits:
Training Provided
Good For:
Public Groups, Age 55+, Private Corporate Groups
Participation Requirements:
Driver’s License, Background Check, Attend Orientation
Other Requirements:
Volunteer needs to be engaged on a monthly basis at least once a month.
Description
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.
Key Responsibilities:
- 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:
- 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
Location
On-site
American Red Cross
6914 W Expressway 83, Harlingen, Texas, US
