Coordinator - Emergency Management

at  Canadian Red Cross

Employee Working Location : Partially Virtual / Hybrid (Edmonton, AB)
Employment Status : Permanent Full-time
Salary Band : $59,870 - $74,837 / year
The Canadian Red Cross (CRC) – an inspirational not for profit organization, helps people and communities in Canada and around the world in times of need and supports them in strengthening their resilience. As a Canada’s Best Employers 2024, we are committed to having an accessible, diverse, inclusive, and barrier-free work environment.

• Contribute to workforce planning assessments by identifying local operational needs, gaps, and promotions within the volunteer workforce.
• Be responsible to directly support as well as engage teams in volunteer sourcing initiatives to achieve set targets as part of the defined recruitment strategies and tactics.
• Ensure completion of local and program-specific onboarding and orientation activities with volunteers.
• Implement and lead programmatic volunteer engagement through regular communication, activities and informal recognition, as well as support centrally managed engagement activities including those developed or rolled out by the Volunteer Engagement and Experience (VEE) Manager.
• Coordinate disaster risk reduction and readiness activities in an all-hazards approach with particular emphasis on relevant risks, and in line with CRC Readiness Standards;
• Participate in the development and preparation of program objectives and work plans as required.
• Ensure that Red Cross supplies and assets are inventoried, maintained, tracked and deployed as per the logistics plan, in agreement with Supply Chain Management/Logistics.
• Coordinate and support emergency preparedness and awareness activities within the assigned area including annual campaigns such as Emergency Preparedness Week, Fundraising campaigns, etc.
• Supervise and contribute to the development and support the implementation of Emergency Response Plans (ERPs) in accordance with programs standards, including workforce planning.
• In times of small-scale localized responses, support or lead the set up and operation of responses in community, based on request from EM leadership.
• Play a key role during local, provincial and national disaster and emergency responses as required including Duty Officer coverage as assigned.
• Build partnerships with stakeholders including assigned local and municipal governments representatives, NGOs, police and fire departments as well as community leaders in a continuous effort to enhance response capacity.