SBP Hiring for Disaster Corps Project Lead at New Orleans, Louisiana Full Time

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As an AmeriCorps member serving with SBP, you will become part of the growing national service movement, and have the opportunity to develop and hone professional skills with a dynamic social-impact organization that is pioneering a new model for disaster recovery.

SBP’s Disaster Corps Project Lead is pivotal in supporting response efforts immediately following the impact of natural disasters. Project Leads who serve under SBP’s Disaster Corps will be the first on the ground to provide services to impacted vulnerable populations throughout the United States. The service activities that Disaster Corps Project Leads conduct when responding to disaster may include basic need assessments for communities, delivery and facilitation of food and water, as well as mucking and gutting of disaster-impacted homes. As the face and voice of SBP, you will aid community members in beginning their recovery efforts and educate the public on resilience and predictability.

During blue-skies, Disaster Corps Project Leads will play a vital role in SBP’s Rebuilding Program and actively lead the construction efforts on clients’ homes. A Disaster Corps Project Lead is responsible for ensuring that each phase of construction is being completed on schedule. When volunteers are present, Disaster Corps Project Leads are responsible for training and managing volunteers, keeping them on task, monitoring safety, ensuring quality work, effectively participating in construction, and completing tasks on schedule.

Project Lead Essential Functions:

• Maintain a clean, safe and organized work site.
• Ensure that each phase of construction is being completed on schedule.
• Ensure that work is of the highest quality.
• Interact effectively and positively with other team members, volunteers, clients and partners.
• Actively participate in construction projects.
• Perform strenuous, physical labor in different climates, over long periods of time.

Serving on Deployment; Essential Functions:

• Must commit to be available to travel within 24-48 hours’ notice and have the availability to deploy for 30 or more days
• In the event of a large-scale disaster, Disaster Corps members may be transferred to the impacted
• geography to support longer-term relief until an SBP operating site is fully functioning in the community.
• Provide immediate and long-term relief in areas impacted by natural disaster including but not limited
• to: basic needs assessments, volunteer coordination, client coordination, supply and donations
• management, debris removal, mucking and gutting homes, and any additional critical needs identified.
• Conduct disaster response and preparedness trainings for communities and other national service organizations
• Communicate the daily and weekly goals to all community stakeholders.
• Provide effective training and constructive feedback to volunteers and other responders who are completing mold suppression, mucking & gutting, insulation, drywall, mudding, painting, flooring, trim, doors and other phases of construction.
• Participate in and execute construction activities alongside volunteers and other responders.
• Maintain a professional and positive attitude when serving.
• Ask volunteers to return and spread the word about the enduring needs.
• Serve as a liaison between the homeowner and volunteers.
• Flexibility with housing while deployed which could include: public shelters, Airbnb, hotels, religious facilities, or other temporary housing options available. SBP will provide bedding materials if none are available.
• Flexibility with shared transportation, and irregular service hours and days.
• Ability to lift at least 50 lbs.

Benefits:

• Monthly Living stipend of $1,600
• An additional $175 monthly housing stipend for individuals who have previously served in AmeriCorps, NCCC, or VISTA
• An education award of $6,345 upon successful completion of each 10-month term
• Eligibility to postpone repayment of federally-guaranteed student loans during their service term. (The National Service Trust will also pay all or a portion of the interest that accrued during the service period.)
• Free limited benefits health coverage
• Access to the AmeriCorps Member Assistance Program
• Child care assistance
• Valuable professional development and opportunities to further their career

*COVID-19 Safety Statement: SBP requires COVID-19 vaccinations for all team members. SBP team members closely interact with vulnerable populations. As such, we have an obligation to ensure that no team member poses a direct threat to the health or safety of our clients, themselves, or others in the workplace. All vaccinated team members will be required to submit photocopies of the front and back of their vaccination cards prior to onboarding with SBP.