Service & Deployment Coordinator - AmeriCorps

Position Title: California Emergency Response Corps; AmeriCorps Service & Deployment Coordinator

California Emergency Response Corps (CERC), AmeriCorps is looking for a Service and Deployment Coordinator to join our team. The Coordinator will be in charge of recruiting, training, and managing a deployable group of AmeriCorps members when requested. Support and train CERC members and ensure that they are fulfilling their contract obligations.

Benefits:

• Pay range: $66,560 -$80,000/yr
• Generous time off policies starting at 3 weeks vacation and additional paid sick leave
• 16 paid holidays
• Stepping stone into a career in Emergency Management/Disaster Response
• Hybrid position
• Medical insurance, dental, vision, mental health, life, accident, critical illness hospital indemnity, FSA: healthcare, dependent, commuter, 403b

Minimum Qualifications

• Must be a permanent resident of California, USA
• Must be able to travel as needed
• Willingness to participate in disaster response operations for up to two weeks or longer
• Willingness to learn and participate in disaster cycle services (Preparedness, Response, Recovery) operations
• Strong team and individual leadership skills
• Logistics and inventory control management
• Proficiency/willingness to learn data keeping systems i.e. Google, Salesforce, Box etc…
• Ability to work within parameters of State and Federal grants

Preferred

• Previous experience with disaster response
• Previous AmeriCorps experience
• Bilingual Spanish/English preferred

Responsibilities

• Recruit, train and manage a deployable group of AmeriCorps members when requested by California Volunteers and Office of Emergency Services
• Ensure CERC members complete their minimum hour requirements by the end of their contracts
• Create a comprehensive disaster-response training plan for AmeriCorps members hosting two training events per month virtually or in-person aligning to Incident Command Structure doctrine and best-practices for state-wide members
• Conduct member disaster simulations for state-wide members
• Ensure the health and safety of all deployment personnel for the full duration of the assignment
• Create a program-wide “gray sky” Incident Action Plan and Standard Operating Procedure for state-wide program
• Ensure all members complete FEMA ICS 100, 200, and Red Cross Disaster Cycle Services, Sheltering Operations, Everyone is Welcome and Psychological First Aid, and other training as assigned
• Establish collaborative partnerships with local organizations
• Work in partnership with BACR Operations and Human Resources for continual support of members and on-boarding processes and procedures
• Ensure inventory control of deployment gear for all state-wide members
• Responsible for individual member goal setting, mid-year evaluation and end of year

The Organization:

For more than four decades, Bay Area Community Resources (BACR) has been delivering a wide range of services to schools and other community settings throughout the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Services are clustered in program areas that include expanded learning, behavioral and mental health, fiscal sponsorship, healthy communities, national service, and youth workforce and re-entry.

Each year, BACR provides strengths-based, trauma-informed direct services to tens of thousands of people. We continually witness the strength and resilience of the individuals and families we serve who are often those most adversely impacted by systemic racism, poverty, and inequitable access to resources and opportunities.

During this time, the organization has remained steadfast to our mission: promoting the healthy development of individuals, families, and communities. We are grateful for the opportunity to support communities throughout the Bay Area, promoting resilience, health and justice and to our dedicated staff who serve those communities with compassion, passion, creativity and talent.

Above is the pay range for this position that we reasonably expect to pay. Individual compensation is based on various factors including experience/education, skillset, and geographic location.