The Campus Compact AmeriCorps VISTA program places AmeriCorps VISTA members in full service with our campus and community partners for a one-year period. During this year, members spend 35 hours per week on their host site’s campus or with one of that campus’s community partners to work on building systems and programs that support low-income college students and community members. The VISTA member’s work is to build capacity, meaning that rather than directly serving the community, they’re enhancing or creating systems, structures, and resources that support the direct anti-poverty work. Campus Compact functions as the central VISTA program hub, performing program administration, offering training and support to VISTA members and their projects, and connecting the work happening in individual projects both to similar work happening nationwide and back to AmeriCorps. For detailed program information and FAQs, please visit the Americorps.gov website.
Member Duties:
The AmeriCorps VISTA will build capacity for a new Washington and Lee University program to enhance best practices for community organizations in recruiting and supporting first-generation and low-income W&L students as volunteers. This program will increase communication across differences to grow the needed mindset, skillset, and heartset for optimal collaborations. The VISTA will research best practices, hold discussion circles with college students and community organization representatives, and develop a survey in order to understand ways of enhancing engagement and developing students’ professional and civic skills. The success of this program will increase student engagement and positive community relations. Students will also gain competencies in service-learning work that can translate into career skill development.
Service Term: August 12, 2024 - August 11, 2025
Application Instructions: Visit this link and apply to the position through the my.AmeriCorps.gov system
Note: The myAmeriCorps system is sometimes finicky and can be hard to update – if that website says “no longer accepting applications,” please feel free to reach out to our team via email at vista@compact.org to check. For support using the myAmeriCorps portal, please see this document.
$Commensurate with experience. per Unknown Employment Type: Full-Time