Disaster Manager – British Virgin Islands Red Cross At British Red Cross

Context

The British Virgin Islands Red Cross is the premier voluntary service provider of humanitarian services to people of most need in the British Virgin Islands. Our mission is to mobilise the power of humanity so that individuals and communities have the capacity to prepare for, deal with and recover from crisis.

Scope

The Disaster Manager, working under the direction of the Director, will support all programmatic activities of the BVI Red Cross related to emergency response, disaster risk reduction (DRR) and resilience building at the community level.

Overall purpose of the role

The DM Officer will contribute to developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating the BVI RC disaster management and risk reduction programmes, projects and activities.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Disaster Management

• Manage, in collaboration with the Branch Director, all aspects of the BVI RC disaster management response, resilience and recovery programmes. These include:
  • Undertaking assessments of frequent disaster risks, vulnerabilities and capacities.
  • Updating and disseminating the DM Strategy, Plan, SOPs, Contingency and Business Continuity Plans.
  • Coordinate needs assessments activities following an emergency.
  • Designing operational set-up and response plans and monitoring tools

Logistics

• Work in collaboration with the Finance and Administration Manager to ensure the following:
  • Maintain oversight of warehouses shared with DDM for contingency stocks, according to the signed agreement.
  • Receive and distribute goods in a professional manner (count goods in and out, make sure that paperwork is complete and filed appropriately).
  • Oversee the efficient operation of the stores whilst upholding good storage practices, including health and safety considerations.
  • Ensure that all logistics and stores paper work are properly completed and retained (e.g. delivery notes, goods received notes, stock cards and monthly stock reports).

Vehicle Management

• Ensure that the office has vehicles appropriate to its needs.
• Ensure that all vehicles/generators are fuelled. Arrange for regular servicing of all vehicles and generators.
• Allocate vehicles to ensure an efficient coverage of programming needs.

Skills & Experience

• Bachelor Degree in Emergency Management or related field
• Related experience in a relevant discipline
• Project management – planning, monitoring, evaluation and learning
• Experience of working within a humanitarian or social support environment and advantage
• Ability to support data collection and information management
• Flexible and organised
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written in English; Spanish language skills would be an advantage

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