Government Operations volunteers are responsible for ensuring Red Cross actions are aligned with, supportive of, and complementary to government. The role involves managing expectations, establishing and monitoring situational awareness, and seek, collect, evaluate and communicate critical information. This role is often situated in an Emergency Operations Center.
Supports clients behind the scenes without direct client contact to coordinate our services with government partners.
• Excellent communication skills
• Able to articulate goals, needs, benefits of partnership
• Values input and fosters a cooperation
• Consistently follows through with commitment and responsibilities
• Able to work independently through complex communications procedures
• Able to work in a fast paced and ever-changing environment
Needs to be able to represent ARC to partners with professionalism and work within the established DRO chain of command to make commitments. Position may be based at an EOC or at a DRO headquarters providing virtual/phone support to EOCs and partners. Some degree of working independently is needed.
