Hong Kong Red Cross
Hong Kong Red Cross
Address：Hong Kong Red Cross Headquarters, 19 Hoi Ting Road, West Kowloon, Kowloon
E-mail : [email protected]
Website： http://www.redcross.org.hk
Deputy Manager (Community Resilience)
Job Purpose:
The role works closely with the Manager/Senior Manager (Community Resilience) and the broader team to develop, lead, and deliver a portfolio of community resilience projects. These initiatives aim to strengthen general public and key stakeholders’ knowledge and practical skills in disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and “working with nature” approaches in Hong Kong.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the Manager/ Senior Manager to formulate the strategic direction on public awareness and advocacy on community resilience agenda by providing situational analysis and proposing recommendations, in line with the corporate strategic direction;
- Plan and design awareness and education model to enhance awareness on community resilience, climate change adaptation, working with nature agenda to general public and key stakeholders;
- Lead the team to drive the development and execution of projects, provide professional intervention by timely review and evaluate community resilience service projects to assure continuous improvement and compliance with strategic direction;
- Explore and identify resource needs and ensure the mobilization of staff and volunteers to provide quality service, as well as collaborate with other teams and service units in running projects to achieve the aligned goals;
- Establish network and maintain relationships with external stakeholders, such as community partners, academia, government departments and NGOs for collaboration and support.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in any discipline, preferably in climate & environmental studies, human science, social service or disaster management
- Minimum 5 years post-graduation and related working experience with supervisory experience
- Sound knowledge and experiences in working with community, familiar with community needs and its unique groups, preferably has experience in community resilience and disaster risks projects
- Sound leadership, analytical and coordination skills.
- Good communication skills with stakeholders and community partners.
- Good people management and interpersonal skills, strong sense of responsibility, mature and able to work independently and under pressure.
- Good command in both written and spoken English and Chinese (including Putonghua)
Contract Period: 2 years
Fringe Benefits:
Fringe benefits including generous annual leave, marriage leave, caring leave, volunteer leave, medical and dental benefits (including dependents), Employer MPF voluntary contribution, and a discretionary incentive payment (where applicable) will be offered to the right candidates.
Interested candidates are invited to submit an online application, by clicking the below link
Review of applications will start as soon as possible and continue until 10 May 2026, or until the post is filled, whichever is earlier.
Personal data provided by job applicants will be used strictly in accordance with Agency’s data protection policy for recruitment purposes only. Applicants not contacted within 4 weeks may consider their applications unsuccessful and all related information will be kept on our files up to a period of 6 months.
** Apart from the vacancy in the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, this Council will not be responsible for processing any of the above vacancies. If you are interested in applying for the above vacancies, please submit your application directly to the relevant authorities. Thanks for your cooperation.