Also called: Disaster Relief Logistician, Aid Supply Chain Officer
Gets food, water, medicine, and shelter to disaster zones and refugee camps quickly.
After a hurricane, you organize warehouses, trucks, and planes to get supplies to towns with destroyed roads. You might work for FEMA, the Red Cross, the UN, or an NGO, sometimes overseas.
Estimated; NGO pay is often lower than corporate.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in logistics, international development, or business; field experience matters most.
Ways in: 4-year college, Military, Graduate school. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Supply Chain Management, International Development, Emergency Management.
Growing about average. Grows with climate disasters and global crises.
Low risk for 10 years. AI helps forecast needs; getting supplies into disaster zones takes people on the ground.
Classes: Geography, Foreign language, Statistics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 13-1081.
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