Senior Associate, Mission Support – Planning, Situation & Geospatial Analysis

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Team Rubicon

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2010

🤝 Non-profit

🤲 Charity

🌍 Social Impact

Non-profit • Charity • Social Impact

Team Rubicon is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing disaster relief and building resilience in vulnerable communities worldwide. The organization operates domestically and internationally, offering disaster response, long-term recovery, and other support services. Team Rubicon is powered by volunteers, known as Greyshirts, who work tirelessly to aid communities affected by various disasters such as hurricanes, wildfires, and floods. Funded by donations from individuals and corporate sponsors, Team Rubicon ensures that disaster survivors receive help free of charge.

📋 Description

• Provide Situation Unit functional leadership to monitor domestic and global events that may trigger TR's response or affect ongoing operations, fusing multiple information sources (e.g., meteorological products, government/NGO situation reports, partner updates, open-source reporting) into clear, actionable situational awareness products tailored to TR decision-makers and Greyshirt volunteer leaders. • Coordinate with branch Greyshirt volunteer leaders engaged in more localized situational awareness reporting to ensure unity and continuity of effort. • Lead and develop a cadre of Greyshirt volunteers with GIS expertise to support situational awareness, planning, and decision-making across TR's functions & departments. • Apply professional GIS skills to evolve TR’s GIS capability, promoting standardization and quality of geospatial products, and coordinating & prioritizing GIS support requests to meet customer needs, including developing dashboards, mapping products, operational visualizations, and common operating pictures that improve organizational visibility and leadership decision-making. • Provide TR mission planning expertise to support and advise Greyshirt volunteer leaders and staff through the full mission planning process for domestic and OCONUS operations throughout all phases of the disaster cycle. • Build strong working relationships across TR’s geographic branches and mission support functions to remove friction, clarify roles, and ensure consistent planning standards, coordinating mission planning inputs to produce clear, executable plans. • Maintain and continuously improve planning tools, templates, and procedures that promote consistency while remaining adaptable. • Support QA/QC for operational data and reporting to improve accuracy and timeliness of information used for internal decision-making and external reporting, working collaboratively with other functions & departments to develop analytical tools enabling impact assessment, lessons learned, and continuous improvement across domestic and OCONUS operations.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience preferred • 3–5 years of relevant professional experience in disaster response, emergency management, crisis operations, humanitarian assistance, military operations, or related fields (public, private, and/or nonprofit) • Previous experience and fluency in TR mission planning concepts and the ability to provide reliable guidance to volunteer and staff leaders across domestic and OCONUS contexts (or demonstrated ability to rapidly achieve this fluency) • Experience supporting international/OCONUS operations, including awareness of common security and access considerations in the global humanitarian environment, the humanitarian principles, and coordination bodies such as the UN Cluster System • At least entry-level professional capability with GIS tools and geospatial concepts is required, including the ability to generate and/or validate common mapping and visualization products and guide their development and use to meet changing needs; advanced GIS proficiency with a demonstrated experience managing GIS workflows, including familiarity with Esri platforms such as ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online (web maps, dashboards, Experience Builder, Survey123, and Field Maps) is strong preferred • Experience supporting or leading data collection, QA/QC, analysis, and reporting to inform decisions and impact assessments; ability to translate data into clear insights and recommendations • Experience with business intelligence and/or data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI) and with data management practices that improve reporting quality and transparency preferred • Experience producing situational awareness products (e.g., hazard monitoring, storm track interpretation, risk/impact summaries) in support of operational decision-making • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to brief diverse audiences and communicate plans, risks, and recommendations.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible Unlimited Paid Time Off • Generous holiday schedule (including a paid week off between winter holidays) • Matching 401k contributions up to 4% with no vesting requirement • 100% company-paid health benefits for employees and their dependents • Professional development, leadership development and events/conferences • Paid time off to volunteer with the non-profit of your choice • One-week all-inclusive onboarding experience