(Wildfire Season) Disaster Shelter Volunteers

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The American Red Cross responds to natural disasters and need a HIGH amount of volunteers during wildfire season. We assist by opening shelters. We evacuate residents and need volunteers to help serve food, communicate, manage logistics, reception/registration, dormitory, in-kind donations, transporting supplies, managing red cross vehicles, distributing supplies, etc.

Responsibilities:

• Complete tasks necessary for shelter operations and provide assistance to evacuated residents.
• Embodying the fundamental principles of the American Red Cross in their work with clients, disaster responders and partners
• Providing excellent client service and support the daily maintenance of the shelter operation at the direction of the assigned Shelter Supervisor
• Using the online Shift Tool during the disaster event to report availability and schedule shelter shifts
• Completing the required virtual self-paced training (3 hours of training total)

• Must be 18+ years of age
• Bilingual in Spanish, Vietnamese, Korean, Farsi, Arabic, etc. (preferred but not required)
• Willing and able to volunteer in person in a disaster shelter
• Ability to build appropriate and effective relationships with co-workers and shelter residents.
• Ability to support and correct performance, manage conflict and ask for help early on so that workflow and service delivery does not impact shelter residents or the shelter community.
• Demonstrates clear, concise, and effective written and verbal communication.

• MUST complete 3 hours of online training
• Availability to sign up for shifts of your choice (shifts are 4, 8 or 12 hours long) when disaster occurs