Disaster Action Team (DAT) Specialist

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Our Disaster Action Team Volunteers (aka Disaster Response Volunteers) provide 24 hour emergency response to local disasters, particularly house fires, ensuring that those affected have access to resources for basic necessities such as food, shelter, and clothing.

WATCH how Disaster Response volunteers make a difference--> https://youtu.be/-yamNDUbsn0

The Red Cross responds to an emergency every 8 minutes! No one else does this: not the government, not other charities. From small house fires to multi-state natural disasters, the American Red Cross goes wherever we’re needed, so people can have clean water, safe shelter and hot meals when they need them most.

Responsibilities:

• Participation in meetings, projects, and local response activities
• Completes all required training and maintains current training standard as DAT program requirements change.
• Attends regular team meetings and training as required by the region/territory.
• Completes assigned projects and local response activities according to the needs of the DAT program. (Preparing vehicles, response materials, administrative support of the DAT program and other tasks assigned by the DAT Leader.)

Requirements:

• Follow and execute 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.
• Ability to speak another language is a plus! (Spanish, Vietnamese, Korean, Arabic, Farsi, etc.)

Volunteer Locations available across Orange County, California!

Apply here: https://volunteerconnection.redcross.org/?nd=lead&a=129097&h=156&p=2133750

Sign-up to volunteer today! Please email questions to Christina Gosling, the Sr. Volunteer Recruiter Specialist, at christina.gosling@redcross.org or (714) 380-7263.