Nonprofit
Published 12/31/25 2:44PM

Mass Care Team Member

On-site, Volunteer must be in or near Harlingen, TX
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  • 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

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