LEADER needed to make sure people have food to eat after large disasters.

Your American Red Cross is looking for leaders at both the Regional level (covering the 51 counties along the Texas Gulf Coast) to take on the preparedness roles of ensuring we have feeding plans in place for medium and large scale disasters.They will alsoprovide leadership to Disaster Cycle Services workers in performing feeding activities during preparedness, response, and recovery within a Region.

The ideal candidate is willing to contact local area vendors to create feeding agreements with negotiated rates. They will be friendly, personable, computer savvy and have the charisma of a salesperson you WANT to buy from. Ability to activate during a disaster to lead the execution/implementation of the feeding plan (for a 2 week assignment) is highly desirable.

Key Responsibilities:

Feeding provides snacks, meals, drinks and water using Emergency Response Vehicles (ERVs) or other vehicles on routes within the impacted area or at a fixed location such as community center.

This position is responsible for the collaborative leadership of the feeding program within the region including:
1. Oversee overall feeding program, ensuring feeding guidance is observed
2. Ensure effective, collaborative planning for feeding operations in the region, including documenting the plan and keeping it current
3. Ensure adequate supplies for feeding operations in the region
4. Ensure adequate partnerships are pre-identified to address feeding needs identified in regional plans, including requirements for regional, cultural, and health-related dietary requirements, coordinating feeding operational plans and managing expectations around feeding capability, capacity and reporting
5.Build feeding capacity and capability through partnerships, recruitment, training and mentoring
6. Serve as a Red Cross subject matter expert in feeding program guidance and tools

Qualifications:Ability to build and lead a team using a collaborative leadership style and demonstrating traits of honesty, forward looking, competence, intelligence and compassion. This Lead will envision a teams impact in Mass Care and inspire the team into action. They will ensure the team understands how they fit into the larger DCS structure and how their actions can positively influence and support the DCS Program as a whole.

Time Commitment:Is around 10-20 hours per month with additional time needed initially to learn feeding protocols and procedures. Again, ability to activate during a disaster to lead the execution/implementation of the feeding plan (for a 2 week assignment) is highly desirable. (The Red Cross will cover travel, room and board when deployed for a disaster response.)