Blood Donor Ambassador (BDA): Welcome blood donors, check them into their blood donation appointment, and support them through the recovery process at the refreshments table. You will help ensure blood donors have a positive and memorable experience from the moment they arrive to the moment they leave. By creating a welcoming and fulfilling donation process, you’ll inspire donors to commit to regular donations and help us meet the critical need for blood. Your kindness and professionalism during each blood drive will foster ongoing donor support, ensuring we have enough blood to meet the needs of the community.

Transportation Specialist (TS): Deliver life-saving blood donations to local hospitals and help patients in need. As a volunteer driver, you become a hero on wheels, delivering not just blood, but hope and life itself. Our user-friendly mobile app empowers you to seamlessly schedule shifts (both scheduled or on-demand), and make deliveries ensuring that blood, platelets, and other critical supplies get to hospitals swiftly.

Disaster Action Team (DAT) Specialist: Most of the 65,000 emergencies that the Red Cross responds to each year are local, personal disasters like home fires. Disaster Action Team volunteers are ready to respond to these emergencies, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to ensure families don’t have to face tough times alone. Disaster Action Team volunteers do this by providing immediate emotional support, financial assistance, and information to help families begin the process of recovery.

Duty Officer (DO): Remotely triage aid requests and investigate if Red Cross response is required. If the Duty Officer determines that someone qualifies for a response, they dispatch Disaster Action Team volunteers to the scene. Duty Officers also work with on-scene Disaster Action Team volunteers to provide virtual support and technical guidance.

Shelter Service Associate: Support the day-to-day activities withing a shelter, which may include working in reception, registration, feeding, dormitory, information, or other areas. Shelter volunteers work directly with residents to ensure their basic needs are met as well as help them access additional services.

Preparedness Presenter: Go out into your local community and teach people how to reduce the risk of disaster, prepare to response effectively, and cope with disasters when they happen. The skills you learn will enable you to help your own home and family, while you also help your community be more prepared and resilient. Become a presenter for our Prepare with Pedro (Grades K through 2^nd), Be Red Cross Ready, and/or Hands-Only CPR classes. Or install free smoke alarms and teach people fire safety education in their residencies through the Home Fire Campaign.

Disaster Health Services (DHS) Service Associate: Use your professional skills as a licensed healthcare professional to provide hands-on care, health education, health assessments, and additional health-related support in shelters. You can also remotely help disaster-affected clients replace medical items that were lost in disaster. Shelter and remote positions available.

• Current, active, and unencumbered licensure or certification for the healthcare professions, including RN, LPN, LVN, EMT, Paramedic, MD, DO, PA, NP, APRN.
• Click here for Disaster Health Services Eligibility Criteria

Disaster Mental Health (DMH) Service Associate: Use your professional skills as a licensed mental health professional to meet the emotional needs of disaster clients, communities, and other Red Cross disaster workers in disasters of all sizes. They identify individuals who need additional support, provide short-term disaster mental health interventions, and refer individuals to local resources as necessary. Shelter and remote positions available.

• Currently licensed or recently retired mental health professionals, current school psychologists and school counselors, and current psychiatric nurses.
• Click here for Disaster Mental Health Eligibility Criteria

Disaster Spiritual Care (DCS) Service Associate: Assist disaster-affected clients to utilize their own spiritual resources, values and faith in the midst of crisis, regardless of one's faith tradition. Facilitate long-term recovery for clients by providing spiritual and emotional support, and connection to local resources.

• Must meet one of the following criteria:
  • A disaster spiritual care provider in good standing in a National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD) member organization
  • A Board-certified chaplain
  • A professional chaplain (paid or volunteer) and is endorsed by that organization
  • An endorsed leader of a local faith community or organization

Client Care Program Service Associate: Remotely meet the disaster-caused needs of individuals and families with casework and recovery planning by matching Red Cross resources and assistance to these needs. Provide financial assistance to qualified clients, provide internal/community referrals. Assistance is provided in a consistent, scalable, and repeatable manner so that all our clients receive similar services.

VAVS Program Representative: Act as a liaison on behalf of the Red Cross to connect with the VA Medical Center in your area. Position only available at the Portland, Vancouver, Roseburg, and/or White City VA Medical Centers.

Hero Care Network Caseworker: Remotely provide emergency communications and critical services to military members, veterans, and their families. Be that critical link for families in emergency situations. Some services include arranging emergency leave, transportation home, financial assistance, and access to medical services.

Facilitator: Use your professional skills as a licensed mental health professional to travel around your Red Cross region to teach mental health workshops to those who request them. Available programs include Coping with Deployment, Reconnection Workshops, and Mind-Body Workshops.

Restoring Family Links Caseworker: Provide free and confidential services to help families reconnect when families are separated internationally as a result of conflict, disaster, migration, or other humanitarian emergency.

International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Instructor: Teach IHL classes at the Basic, Intermediate, and/or Expert level to those who request it. Through a hands-on approach utilizing group activities, class discussion and compelling visual media, the IHL Program invites participants to reflect on their perceptions of armed conflict and explore the powerful and fundamental concept of human dignity even in the midst of war.

Digital Volunteer: Use your social media skills to help maintain and amplify the Red Cross message on social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, X, and LinkedIn

Visual Storyteller: Take photos and/or videos to showcase the Red Cross at work, specifically at tabling events, trainings, and disasters.

Blogger – Writer: Remotely write Red Cross blogs, news stories, press releases, social media content, and media alerts for various platforms.

Front Desk Administrative Assistant: Greet visitors, check them into the building, and direct them where they need to go at the Red Cross office in Portland.

Fleet Team Member: Drop off and pick up Red Cross vehicles at car washes and service centers to ensure the organization has a fully operational and deployable fleet.

Facilities Team Member: Assist with the maintenance, repairs, and general upkeep of Red Cross offices around the region. 

Volunteer Engagement Ambassador: Remotely guide new volunteers from all lines of service through the process of joining the American Red Cross to ensure a smooth and comfortable onboarding experience. Provide regular check-ins and support new volunteers as needed.

Interview & Referral Specialist: Remotely guide prospective volunteers through the online volunteer application process and ensure they are scheduled for a screening phone call so they can be connected to the appropriate line of service. You can also remotely interview prospective volunteers over the phone and help them find the volunteer opportunity that is right for them based off their interests, skills, and availability.