SBP Hiring for Disaster Corps Project Lead at Houston, Texas Full Time

Are you passionate about addressing social justice and sustainability? If so, our service-minded AmeriCorps team needs your help!

Climate change is here, increasing the size and frequency of natural disasters and displacing over 15 million people each year. Hurricanes like Ida, Harvey, Maria, and Katrina disproportionately affect under resourced communities, whose road to recovery often takes years. SBP is dedicated to shrinking the time between disaster and recovery, work that includes helping individual homeowners and communities rebuild after a disaster.

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 stipend of $2,100
• Free individual Cigna health insurance
• A housing stipend of $175/month for AmeriCorps alumni
• Relocation reimbursement of up to $500 for eligible members
• Segal Education Award of $6,495 (Can be used as tuition assistance and/or for repaying qualified student loans and is awarded upon successful completion of a 10-month term of service)
• AmeriCorps Childcare Benefits Program
• Student loan forbearance for qualified loans
• Free Mental Health, Financial, and Legal support through the Member Assistance Program

As an AmeriCorps member serving with SBP, you will be part of the growing national service movement. You will receive professional development with a dynamic social-impact organization that is pioneering a new model for disaster recovery to support people, especially those who are most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. If you’re committed to learning, have a strong work ethic, and enjoy working with volunteers, we want you on our team! 

*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.