Senior Associate, Training (Advanced Skills) - Team Rubicon

Team Rubicon (TR) is seeking a Senior Associate, Training (Advanced Skills). The Senior Associate, Training (Advanced Skills) will support the Unified Training Strategy by leading the Sawyer, Route Clearance, and Roof Tarping training programs. This person will support Team Rubicon’s capabilities, training curriculums, and instructor methodology to provide guidance and appropriate tactics for advanced skills.

The Senior Associate, Training (Advanced Skills) will coordinate with the training team to understand the needs of East and West branches and participate in complex training events that include multi-day courses to support Branch Operations with Disaster Training Camps, and Just-In-Time on-site disaster training events.

Every day will be a challenge, but every month brings new opportunities for an organization that is quickly becoming a household name in disaster response.

This position reports to TR’s Manager, Mission Support (Training), and is remote-based in the contiguous United States.

Duties:

• Execute Team Rubicon’s training strategy across the branches (East & West) to enhance our ability to respond rapidly and locally to disasters.
• Recruit, hire, develop, and supervise instructor cadre (Sawyer, Route Clearance, and Roof Tarping).
• Coordinate with the Associate of Complex Training and the geographic branches to forecast program needs.
• Work alongside Volunteer Management on incident resolution and investigation involving the Route Clearance, Chainsaw, and Roof Tarping programs.
• Participate in the development of standards, policies, and processes for response, recovery, and mitigation operations.
• Support the coordination and execution of complex training, local responses, EOC activations, and operations, and support EOC activations.
• Build, vet, and manage a yearly roster of personnel to deploy on Route Clearance Operations and assist in team selection and management during those operations.
• Coordinate with Program Design and Learning to ensure program and curriculum documents are reviewed and updated on a timely recurring schedule.
• Deploy to complex training events and operations as needed.

Education and Background:

• At least 3 years of relevant experience in the military, non-profit, or emergency management.
• Skilled group facilitator with an ability to balance patience and command.
• Proven record of personnel management experience such as recruiting, managing, training, and developing employees and volunteers.
• Project Management Skills: Proficiency in planning, executing, and overseeing. Experience in managing timelines, resources, and team members.
• Experienced with technology tools and in remote working for communicating and coordinating with a large network of TR staff members, Greyshirts (volunteers), and external stakeholders.
• Successful past performance in leading volunteers is highly desired.

Special Requirements:

• This is a full-time, remote position and can be based out of the Lower 48 United States with a flexible and non-traditional work schedule (relocation expenses not provided).
• Evening and weekend schedule supporting leadership meetings, video conferences, events.
• Frequent travel to attend staff meetings and to support training events, exercises, service projects, and training-related networking events/conferences.
• Local Travel: Reliable transportation is required. The person filling this position will be expected to travel within their local area to support ongoing efforts.
• Other Travel: At least 25% (approx. 12 weeks per year) non-local travel to support broader organizational activities.
• Austere Travel: When required to support on-ground disaster missions and route clearance operations.