Emergency Response Team Member
Use your professional and leadership skills to help bring care and comfort to those affected by disaster.
Do you enjoy:
- Working in a fast-paced, ever-changing and challenging environment?
- Being part of an energetic and diverse team of highly-skilled individuals?
- Using your professional skills to assist vulnerable members of our community?
BECOME AN EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM MEMBER
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Providing care & comfort to those affected by disaster.. |
| Being an Emergency Response volunteer makes you a member of an exceptional Disaster Management team that helps families reunite and recover from disaster. Our volunteers are ready when the time comes. They are highly skilled and well trained. Many come to us with specific skills in leadership, human resources, social work and logistics. Others bring a variety of experience from their professional lives. All offer their compassion and a sincere commitment to help.
Duties:
- Employ your critical thinking and leadership skills to manage an effective disaster response
- Provide comfort and services to individuals and families affected by disaster
- Strategize and create disaster preparedness plans and activities at the regional level
- Commit to being an on-call (pager) disaster response volunteer periodically and consistently throughout the year
- Work in collaboration with partner agencies and other community based groups
- Participate in the evaluation and improvement of service delivery
Qualifications:
- at least 18 years old
- proven leadership and professional skills
- able keep your cool in high-pressure situations
- creative and innovative problem solving skills
- long-term vision and ability to strategize
- excellent communicationskills
- able and willing to think outside the box
- you thrive in a challenging team environment
- flexible and adaptable in evolving response environments
- ability to empathise with people affected by disaster
- successful completion of volunteer career path training specifically designed for individual volunteers
- you do not discriminate as to nationality, race, religious beliefs, class or political opinions
- criminal record check
Required commitment:
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Responding to disasters or emergencies in your community. |
| Volunteers are requested to complete all training modulesindividually designed for their volunteer career path training needs. They must have the ability t respond within a 12 hour delay following the impact of a disaster; respond for a period of up to 2 weeks; have flexibility to travel to a disaster site (generally within the region/province but with the possibility ofCanada andUS wide) and; be on-call from time to time.
Training:
We expect that volunteers will bring with them prior expertise and knowledge. As such, each individual’s training needs will be assessed and, based on the national training program, an individually designed volunteer career training path will be developed with each volunteer. Training will includea basic online training module and options to select further courses from more advanced modules.
Benefits:
Disaster Management volunteers will gain experience in high-pressure situations and will have the opportunity to gain skills and knowledge in a very specialized field. The crisis management skills and networking contacts you make while volunteering will provide you with a creative and professional edge in your regular working life. You will have an opportunity to flex your management, organizational planning and visioning skills while making a tangible difference in the lives of others.
TO VOLUNTEER: Contact the Canadian Red Cross, BC/Yukon Disaster Management program by e-mail at bcyukon.dmvolunteer@redcross.ca.
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