AMERICOPS: COMMUNITY PROGRAMS & DISASTER PREPAREDNESS COORDINATOR

Description

DEPARTMENT: Centralia Corps

POSITION TITLE: AMERICOPS: community programs & Disaster preparedness coordinator

SUPERVISOR: CENTRALIA CORPS OFFICERS

Service Term: AUGUST 1, 2023, TO JUNE 15, 2024

MISSION STATEMENT:

The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an evangelical part of the universal Christian church. Its message is based on the Bible. Its ministry is motivated by the love of God. Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.

AmeriCorps

This position is funded by AmeriCorps. AmeriCorps is a national service program designed specifically to fight poverty. Each member makes a year-long, full-time commitment to serve on a specific project at a nonprofit organization or public agency. There is a pre-taxed Living Allowance of $20,000 per term.

SCOPE OF POSITION:

The Community Programs & Disaster Preparedness Coordinator at Salvation Army will re-invigorate impoverished communities by coordinating emergency disaster services, food distributions, and community outreach. This role is responsible for partnering with community leaders to assist in educating the area on the importance of disaster preparedness and help create plans for mobilizing staff, volunteers, and resources before, during and after a disaster.

Description of anticipated service schedule: This position strengthens time management skills, multitasking, teamwork, and independent service capabilities. Refer to the site supervisor for any questions regarding your work assignments or other concerns.

AmeriCorps Member Position Assigned Service Activities:

Emergency Disaster Services/EDS Volunteer Recruitment:

• Lead (once trained) or assist TSA NW Division, EDS Training Manager before, during, and after each regularly scheduled EDS presentation venue.

• Give out the EDS Awareness pre- and post-survey and assist in tallying the results for reporting purposes.

• Prepare/clean and sanitize the venues/host sites and surrounding areas before and after each EDS presentation.

• Lead or assist in the volunteer recruitment efforts that site supervisor deems important or necessary,

• Build community disaster resiliency with engaging materials, presentations, and exhibits covering items such as identifying possible local disasters, how to be prepared, how to help the community, and the role of The Salvation Army.

• Explore novel ideas to increase efficiency, reach, and quality of combatting food insecurity.

• Build capacity to respond to local/regional incidents by recruiting and developing a trained team with coursework, at least quarterly field training opportunities, and ensuring all volunteers have completed all necessary steps to be deployable.

• Widen outreach network in the nearby communities to secure future EDS presentation venues as needed.

• Develop connections and thorough working relationships with all sectors of the community including governmental, nonprofit, and community groups to build a whole community approach supporting all those affected by disaster incidents including survivors, first responders, and responding groups.

• Develop the Puyallup area Emergency Disaster Services policies and procedures to ensure response in a timely and effective manner.

• Develop and manage multiple communication channels (print, email, text, social media, etc. ) for all aspects of EDS (volunteers, community partners, community, etc. ).

• Develop volunteer opportunities marketing collateral.

• Develop and implement communication opportunities: social media, message board, emails, community group networking.

• Increase the effectiveness of volunteer opportunity's structure: policies and procedures, communications, standard roles and responsibilities, orientations, coaching, exit interviews, feedback loops, thank you' s, etc.

• Develop and implement a yearly volunteer program calendar to ensure volunteers are recruited and developed for all needed opportunities.

• Recruit and onboard volunteers for all corps community center opportunities.

• Collect relevant data for dissemination into appropriate database system.

Social Support Services:

• Receive, sort, store, distribute food, personal hygiene supplies, and other items directly and through recruiting, developing, and managing volunteers.

• Plan and prepare boxes of food and other items for community distribution (especially in rural and underserved areas) partnering with other food banks, community-based organizations, and governmental bodies.

• Build and sustain relationships with community members experiencing food insecurity and connect households to the appropriate community resources.

• Conduct grassroots community outreach to connect families with their nearest food banks and meals sites.

• Partner with food banks, community-based organizations, and governmental bodies to develop and implement large-scale antihunger strategies including, but not limited to, increasing of donations to The Salvation Army food programs, food outreaches (especially in rural and underserved areas), and funding opportunities.

• Collect feedback and implement change as a result of family and community feedback.

• Explore novel ideas to increase efficiency, reach, and quality of combatting food insecurity.

• Reduce food insecurity through planning, preparing, cleaning/sanitizing, and serving meals to the community center and for special events.

• Lead or assist in regular and seasonal (e. g. , Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Summer Camp) activities as appropriate: camp transportation, Calendar development, Mall Giving Tree, picking up donations, community opportunities.

• Ensure the canteen is clean and sanitized, and continually ready for deployment, road worthy, and stocked.

• Collect and share all relevant information (local successes, testimonials, numbers, and types of assistance provided, etc. ) to the site supervisor for dissemination.

• Manage confidential client data, input into the appropriate database, help prepare and disseminate necessary reports, and track ongoing food security interventions.

• Listening to and building relationships with seniors, disabled, and other guests of the community center.

• Create a sense of place of belongings, worth, and dignity.

• Explore novel ideas to increase efficiency, reach, and quality of combating food insecurity.

• Develop and disseminate marketing collateral for community and guest engagement.

• Develop and implement a means of increased volunteer and donation recruitment and engagement: connect with service clubs, community groups, places of worship, schools, businesses.

• Create and implement feedback loops for community, donor, and participant engagement as well as to identify areas of improvement, community duplication, missed opportunities, and community unfilled o.