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
Manager (Community Resilience)
Job Purpose:
The core purpose of this role is to provide leadership for Community Resilience Service. S/he works closely with the Senior Manager (Community Resilience) to lead development and execution of Community Resilience team to support the Hong Kong Red Cross in organizing and coordinating community resilience service in Hong Kong.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the Senior Manager to steer service direction in community resilience in Hong Kong with subjects including disaster risk reduction, climate, nature, and urban development.
- Lead a team of staff and volunteers in providing quality training on resilience and disaster preparedness.
- Ensure effective implementation of strategies and actions to strengthen the knowledge and skills of the community resilience projects in raising awareness and enhance capacity on disaster preparedness and resilience from the public, at-risk population groups, and other stakeholders.
- Explore and develop new initiatives and enhancement to assure quality, efficiency and continuous improvement to meet social needs and community expectations.
- Establish and maintain effective relationships with external stakeholders, including government, funding bodies, NGOs etc. to gain knowledge, collaboration and support.
- Contribute to the development and presentation of projects to solicit funding to enhance and support the operation of the community resilience training / activities / service programmes.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in any discipline, preferably in human science, social service, disaster management or climate & sustainability subjects
- Minimum 5 years’ post-graduate relevant work experience in community service, including at least 3 years at managerial level
- Familiar with needs of the community and its unique groups, preferably those related to disaster risks, climate and nature
- Strong capacity and experience with training background is preferred
- Strong leadership, people management and coordination skills with the ability to motivate and build a high-performing team
- Mature personality, strategic mindset with vision, strong interpersonal and leadership skills
- Excellent command of both written and oral English, Chinese/Cantonese/Putonghua
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.
Contract period: 2 years
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 19 April 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.