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Community Disaster Program Manager - Honolulu, HI

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Community Disaster Program Manager – Honolulu, HI Job Description

ATTENTION MILITARY AFFILIATED JOB SEEKERS

– Our organization works with partner companies to source qualified talent for their open roles. The following position is available to Veterans, Transitioning Military, National Guard and Reserve Members, Military Spouses, Wounded Warriors, and their Caregivers. If you have the required skill set, education requirements, and experience, please click the submit button and follow the next steps. Unless specifically stated otherwise, this role is “On‑Site” at the location detailed in the job post.

Joining the American Red Cross is like nothing else – it’s as much something you feel as something you do. You become a vital part of the world’s largest humanitarian network. Joining a team of welcoming individuals who are exceptional, yet unassuming. Diverse, yet uncompromising in unity. You grow your career within a movement that matters, where success is measured in people helped, communities made whole, and individuals equipped to never stop changing lives and situations for the better.

When you choose to be a force for good, you’ll have mentors who empower your growth along a purposeful career path. You align your life’s work with an ongoing mission that’s bigger than all of us. As you care for others, you’re cared for with competitive compensation and benefits. You join a community that respects who you are away from work as much as what you do while at work.

Job Overview As a Community Disaster Program Manager, you will ensure effective collaboration with Volunteer Services; identify, mobilize, and engage partners in all communities in assigned geographic area; and determine current readiness resources, facilities, supplies, local vendors, and strategies for addressing gaps. You will work with volunteers to ensure that the communities you serve are ready to respond to disasters.

Regional disaster employees are required to deploy to disaster relief operations outside of their region at a minimum of once a year. Deployments contribute to skill building, career development and exposure to different types of disasters. Allowances may be provided for personal circumstances and local response activity. Employees must meet all training and physical capacity requirements for deployment.

This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. This role serves and supports the island of Oahu and reports to our office in Honolulu.

The salary range for this position is $64,900 - $69,256.

Key Responsibilities

Empower Volunteers: Lead and support a diverse volunteer team responsible for the implementation of volunteer‑led disaster cycle services programming throughout the assigned geographic area, or functional activities throughout the region.

Lead the Program: Implement disaster cycle services activities within assigned geographic area or specific functional activities within the region.

Mission Capacity Building: Develop and support disaster volunteers who are the primary workforce, and representative of the communities they serve, both culturally and linguistically. Cultivate and develop Disaster Leadership Volunteers and partner volunteers to meet specific responsibilities as part of their work in disaster readiness, preparedness, response, and recovery.

Engage Community: Lead and coordinate efforts in assigned geographic area to prepare and mobilize communities and engage partners with specific functional expertise and assets to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters and emergencies.

Manage in a Matrix: Build relationships and collaborate in the matrix management environment with internal partners, including employees and volunteers.

Know Your Communities: Act as the Red Cross disaster subject matter expert within the assigned geographic area to maximize Red Cross presence and community engagement and mobilization. Prospect and partner with organizations and leaders supporting frontline communities and community resiliency before, during and after disasters.

Ready to Respond: Initiate and coordinate disaster relief operations in the assigned geographic area, or functional activities in the region in alignment with the Disaster Cycle Services Concept of Operations.

Minimum Qualifications Education: Bachelor’s degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience.

Experience: Minimum 5 years of related experience with building, mobilizing, leading and developing volunteer teams to execute a social services program or service.

Valid driver’s license and good driving record.

Required Skills and Abilities

Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.

Demonstrated analytical and decision‑making skills to interpret program trends, results, formulate recommendations, and develop creative processes for continuous program or service improvements.

Proven record of collaboration with diverse groups and individuals representing all demographics of the community; managing multiple priorities, facilitation, problem solving, marketing, leadership, and partnership management.

Intermediate level proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).

Ability to work outside of regular duty hours including nights and weekends.

Preferred Qualifications

Demonstrated ability to develop creative and innovative solutions to complex challenges.

Ability to think critically and adaptively in dynamic or high‑pressure environments.

Experience building relationships with community partners, businesses, and state and county stakeholders across Oahu.

Ability to lead through adversity, guide teams in navigating complex challenges, and drive effective solutions with strategic problem‑solving.

Physical Requirements The physical demands include frequent reaching with hands and arms, lifting up to 15 pounds regularly and up to 30 pounds occasionally, sitting, standing, walking, kneeling, crouching, and crawling. Vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. The work environment is moderate noise (business office with computers, phones and printers, light traffic). The employee must be able to work in a small cubicle and sit at a computer terminal for extended periods.

Disclaimers and additional information about responsibilities are provided in the original posting.

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