About Us
Australian Red Cross is part of the world's largest humanitarian movement.
We support and empower people and communities in times of vulnerability.
We act for humanity.
The Role:
The Specialist, Evacuation Centre Management and Sheltering plays a critical role in ensuring organised and efficient disaster response, maintaining readiness, and enhancing national capabilities in shelter management.
This position is responsible for coordinating evacuation centre management and sheltering activities across the organisation.
Develop and maintain evacuation and sheltering best practice, whilst ensuring currency and relevance of Red Cross evacuation and sheltering tools, resources, and training.
Key Responsibilities:
* Coordinating evacuation centre management and sheltering activities across the organisation.
* Developing and maintaining evacuation and sheltering best practice.
* Ensuring currency and relevance of Red Cross evacuation and sheltering tools, resources, and training.
Requirements:
* Demonstrated sound technical knowledge and expertise of evacuation centre operations, including shelter management and coordination of support services.
* Demonstrated experience in research and development of practice, guides, tools, and resources.
* Experience in the development and delivery of training and exercises.
* Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate teams in high-pressure environments, with a focus on collaboration, problem-solving, and decision-making.
* High level of knowledge of relevant regulations, standards, and best practices in emergency management and public safety.
* Ability to work under general direction from senior employees and work with and lead teams and people from diverse backgrounds and create a collaborative working environment.
* Sound analytical skills and demonstrated ability to assess, evaluate and solve problems and exercise initiative and judgment where practices and procedures are not clearly defined.
Benefits:
* Work for purpose, know that the work you do enables Red Cross to support and empower people and communities in times of vulnerability.
* Red Cross respects, values and encourages diversity.
* We believe that diversity in our people enriches our organisation as well as the impact we have.
* Financial wellbeing: Salary packaging options available.
* Health & Wellbeing: Access to specialist advice for nutrition, sleep, resilience and mindfulness, as well as access to guided meditation and other wellbeing programs.
* Work/Life Flexibility: Access to flexible working arrangements, paid 'Me' day just for you and a wide range of other paid leave options.
* Career development: Access to ongoing learning, training, and development courses.
About Australian Red Cross:
Australian Red Cross strives to create a safe and inclusive culture with wellbeing at its centre.
We embrace diversity and welcome Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people with diverse lived experiences, abilities, genders, ethnicities, ages, and sexual orientations.
We are a child safe organisation with zero tolerance of any harm to children.
Our vision is to be trusted as the leading humanitarian organisation making a genuine difference in the lives of people and communities.
Thank you for considering a career at Red Cross.