Community Awareness Coordinator AmeriCorps VISTA

About VISTA National Service

Members: Members make a year-long, full-time commitment to serve on a specific project at a nonprofit organization or public agency. AmeriCorps VISTA is open to all U.S. citizens, nationals, or lawful permanent resident aliens age 18 and older. Members receive a modest living allowance ($12,800 per year). Members who serve for a year also receive health coverage, childcare, if needed, and other benefits. After successful completion of a term of service, members can choose to receive a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award　(approx. $5000) or post-service stipend

About Take Stock in Children... Take Stock in Children was established in 1995 as a non-profit organization in Florida that provides a unique opportunity for deserving low-income youth/students, many from minority families, to escape the cycle of poverty through education.

The mission of Take Stock in Children is to passionately promote
personal growth, self-responsibility, and academic success for
deserving low-income children by providing a unique set of
resources including mentors, scholarships, long-term support, student
advocacy, and a guaranteed educational opportunity.

Please visit our Website for more information www.takestockinchildren.org

.Goal of the Project: The Pathways to Building Capacity project will enhance TSIC program capacity in order to support program excellence and growth by providing resources that enhance mentoring services, community awareness, alumni activities and donor development. Through these advancements, more low-income students will be provided with mentors, academic guidance, and college scholarships. The Community Awareness Coordinator will provide support to 40 local TSIC programs to help promote the TSIC program, recruit more mentors for students, and demonstrate TSIC student on-going success. Pre/Post survey of TSIC local affiliates receiving member services will report that the services provided helped make the organization more effective.

The Community Awareness Coordinator will...

• Research print, on-line, and television media opportunities for TSIC publicity.
• Work with local media providers to highlight the TSIC program by securing in-kind media opportunities.
• Outline a best-practice strategy for identifying and securing publicity opportunities to share with local programs.
• Collect mentor and alumni stories to be shared though various media formats.
• Create a regular system of communication to local programs and collection of local story content.
• Create a story archive system that facilitates easy access and dissemination of available content.
• Create a scheduled dissemination system and distribute collected stories through various media outlets.
• Research and share information on community awareness events and online resources.
• Create a calendar of community awareness events that align with the TSIC mission.
• Disseminate the calendar to local program affiliates and work to ensure local program participation by proving support and marketing resources as applicable.
• Create a list of online publicity resources and share with local TSIC programs. 
• Disseminate information through our state-wide network about opportunities for local TSIC affiliates to increase awareness.
• Synthesize research performed into a brief tool-kit highlighting publicity partnerships established as well as local event and online opportunities for community awareness.
• Create a community awareness calendar for local programs with monthly suggested activities and resources.
• Provide media training to local programs including information secured from all research performed.
• Create a sustainable system to transfer project specific knowledge and protocols to the next Vista, volunteer or TSIC staff person.
• Create outlines for each activity performed.
• Compile contact lists and resource samples for all activities performed.
• Create a Community Awareness Handbook outlining results of all research, activities, trainings and materials created for local program dissemination, along with best practice tips and challenges based on the member’s service year experience.

TSIC VISTA members should have a college degree or post-secondary certification, be creative, passionate, hard-working and committed to bringing individuals and communities out of poverty through education.

Are you ready to serve? If so please upload your cover letter and resume through our Smart Recruiters portal.

Thank you for your interest in becoming an AmeriCorps Vista member for 2016-2017.