Would You Take This Job – Supply & Logistics Coordinator (AmeriCorps)

Job Title: Supply & Logistics Coordinator (AmeriCorps Disaster Recovery Member).

Company: SBP (St. Bernard Project).

Location: New Orleans, Louisiana (also openings in Tampa, FL—check listing for site details). d

Schedule: Full-time, 10-month AmeriCorps service term (rolling start dates).

Compensation & Benefits (high level): Monthly stipend (~$2,228–$2,403), housing allowance, health insurance, relocation reimbursement, Segal Education Award on successful completion, and other AmeriCorps member benefits.

What You’ll Do:
Streamline SBP’s warehouse and delivery operations, make daily deliveries of supplies to service sites, prioritize efficiency so field teams have materials when and where they need them, and support disaster recovery logistics planning and execution. This role is operational and field-facing—expect both warehouse coordination and on-the-road deliveries.

Required Qualifications (high level):

  • Ability to work physically (lifting/moving supplies) and reliably run daily deliveries.

  • Comfortable working in dynamic, sometimes post-disaster environments and coordinating with volunteers and field teams.

  • Commitment to a 10-month AmeriCorps service term and eligibility for AmeriCorps participation.

Why it’s unique:
You’re not hiring for a corporate supply chain role—this is disaster-recovery logistics where speed, improvisation, and volunteer coordination matter. Your work directly shortens the time between disaster and recovery for homeowners in vulnerable communities. It’s hands-on, service-driven, and offers meaningful training and AmeriCorps benefits.

Link to job posting: SBP - SBP Disaster Recovery AmeriCorps Program

Would You Take This Job?
Would you sign up for a 10-month, field-facing AmeriCorps logistics role rebuilding communities after disasters? Why or why not?

Did a similar AmeriCorps logistics role after floods; the stipend was manageable with a roommate, and color-coding bins by site plus a 15-minute daily receiving huddle kept crews moving. Ask if they’ll cover forklift/box truck certs and set you up with a simple WMS (even Airtable) before day one.

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If you can swing the stipend, the role’s worth it. A simple win for us was a two-bin system for site consumables with a red tag on the backup; when the red bin got opened, the lead texted the SKU to a Google Voice number that dumped into a restock sheet, which cut emergency runs by half.

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If you end up in New Orleans for the 10-month term, the stipend’s tight but workable with a roommate; what saved us was a 3x/week milk-run route with firm supplier cutoffs (order by 2 pm = next-morning will-call). We put QR codes on each site bin that linked to a prefilled reorder form so crews could flag shortages without texting 10 people. That, plus a simple storm-week loadout checklist, cut our oops runs by half.

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