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6 people are interested
Find Our Digital Helpers for Disaster Response
ORGANIZATION: CEDR Digital Corps
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6 people are interested
As a non-profit, CEDR has a wide array for volunteer opportunities. This includes roles related to our response to disaster as well as CEDR's day to day operations.
Help us find, recruit and retain the volunteers to help fill these critical roles by joining our recruiting team. On this team you'll have the opportunity to:
- Work with the team leads to identify the skill sets needed
- Develop and implement a plan to find talented volunteers to fill these roles
- Screen potential volunteers
- Help on board and introduce volunteers to their team leads and new teams
More opportunities with CEDR Digital Corps
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About CEDR Digital Corps
Location:
PO Box 230651, Tigard, OR 97281, US
Mission Statement
CEDR Digital Corps coordinates the work of volunteers around the world to create and utilize innovative technical solutions to challenges in disaster response and mitigation.
Description
CEDR Digital Corps are digital helpers during disasters. We harness the power and wisdom of the crowd to provide vital situational awareness to emergency management agencies during disaster, while simultaneously providing critical factual information to the public from official sources. We leverage technology and social media to quickly gather and vet critical information about conditions on the ground. All the data collection and dissemination is to help both first responders and impacted individuals in disaster areas.
Last year, as members of a spontaneous group of volunteers, we:
- mapped over 12,000 data points related to: infrastructure conditions, gasoline, power, and water/food distribution points
- broadcasted over 100 Zello Broadcasts in Spanish and English regarding conditions in Puerto Rico to an audience of over 1,000 subscribers
- authored and published unique hurricane-related health and safety social media and blog posts in several languages as a means to reach and help those in disaster zones
- supported Puerto Rican citizens with a variety of strategies to counter the information vacuum that occurred when their communications infrastructure collapsed.
Between July 30-Aug 29 2018, CEDR posted over 1,200 tweets amplifying local, state and ICM social media messages related to four national level wildfires and one major hurricane. Our active engagement with the public during that period, garnered over 1.3M organic impressions and resulted in over 1,000 retweets of a critical FEMA map.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
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This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
DATE POSTED
February 17, 2019
SKILLS
- Human Resources Recruitment
- Recruiting
- People Skills
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 18
- Varies. During disaster activations, the time commitment will peak as lots of volunteers tend to sign up at that time and there is a lot of communication with new volunteers and team leads to ensure their resource needs are being met.