• Time frame: ongoing
• Time involved: attend training, practice exercises and meetings (minimum 4 per year) and assist when available during emergencies. The opportunity exists for involvement in preparedness sessions and community presentations if desired.
• Location: North East Tasmania

The program

Red Cross has been responding to emergencies and providing humanitarian assistance in Australia since 1914. We are committed to strengthening and extending our emergency aid services to assist all Australians prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies.

The opportunity

Emergency Services Volunteer Team Members belong to a multi-skilled team of volunteers, who assist individuals and communities across the emergency management cycle by:

• helping people prepare for possible future emergency events (preparedness),
• providing relief during emergency events (response), and
• assisting in the aftermath of an event (recovery).

In times of emergency, volunteers may be requested to assist in their local area, and across Tasmania. Team members will receive training and exercise opportunities to build capacity to organise, lead and deliver these services in the field.

The impact

As an Emergency Services volunteer, you’ll help people to be better prepared, better connected to each other and more resilient when emergencies happen. Red Cross will ensure you have training, ongoing support and access to other opportunities within the World’s largest humanitarian network.

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 different lived experiences, abilities, gender, ethnicity, age, and sexual orientation. 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 volunteering at Red Cross. We also have great career opportunities.