Disaster Mass Care Volunteer (Shelter / Feeding / Emergency Supplies)

Disaster Mass Care Volunteer (Shelter / Feeding / Emergency Supplies)

Mass Care provides activities and services on a congregate basis to the community as a whole including feeding, sheltering, reunification, and distribution of emergency supplies.

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Locations

Adams County,Asotin County,Benton County,Bonner County,Boundary County,Chelan County,Clallam County,Columbia County,Douglas County,Franklin County,Garfield County,Grant County,Grays Harbor County,Island County ,Jefferson County,King County,Kitsap County,Kittitas County,Kootenai County,Lewis County,Lincoln County,Mason County,Okanogan County,Pend Oreille County ,Pierce County,San Juan County ,Skagit County ,Snohomish County,Spokane County,Thurston County ,Walla Walla County,Whatcom County,Whitman County,Yakima County

Key Responsibilities

Mass Care provides activities and services on a congregate basis to the community as a whole including feeding, sheltering, reunification, and distribution of emergency supplies.   This position is responsible for the tasks involved in the Mass Care program including: 1) Support the annual mass care goals, RDO objectives, and regional/ chapter plan for mass care services through participation in meetings, projects, and local response activities 2) Projects and local response activities will be assigned according to the activities you are training in: feeding, sheltering, distribution of emergency supplies, or reunification.   3) Projects may include tasks such as conducting facility surveys for response activity sites, meeting with partners to build relationships, conducting inventory and updating supply kits. 

Relationships

Works closely with all other Mass Care workers to ensure team goals are achieved. 

 

** Refer to: DCS: Trainee - (chapter acronym) Mass Care Team Member

Development Opportunities

Take the Mass Care Management 2017 course. Take training and gain experience required to serve as: • Feeding, Sheltering, Reunification, or DES worker during operations. • Mass Care Regional Program Lead or Mass Care Chapter/Territory Coordinator

Qualifications

Ability to: • follow and implement requests received from supervisor with little or no supervision.  • adapt to change, negotiate compromise and tolerate ambiguity.  • build effective relationships with others who can help with work related goals.           • be sensitive in human interactions to diversity inclusiveness.  • work toward service associate position in at least one Mass Care activity

Training

• Disaster Cycle Services: An Overview (Required) • Mass Care: An Overview (Required) • Fundamental courses for all Mass Care activities strongly recommended

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