AmeriCorps Resource and Data VISTA

Not found for 'AmeriCorps; Metairie (LA); On-site; USD 16,000 - 20,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Childcare assistance

Education Award or End of Service Stip

Health Coverage

Living Allowance

Relocation Allowance

Training

Job summary

VIA LINK in Louisiana is seeking a AmeriCorps Resource and Data VISTA to help expand and improve our human services database and dashboards.

You will work with our call center and care navigation team, assess data quality, update style guides, attend community events, and explore storytelling in dashboards to better serve residents. This is a full-time AmeriCorps VISTA role for data-driven public service.

Qualifications

• Some college education or equivalent required.
• Strong writing and editing skills.
• Experience in social services or disaster response is a plus.
• Ability to work in team environment.

Responsibilities

• Work with call center and care navigation to identify service gaps and expand areas.
• Assess and standardize records in the resource database.
• Update VIA LINK’s style guide to identify changes needed.
• Attend community events to recruit partners for the resource database.
• Evaluate how tools performed for the public during disasters.
• Research best practices for disaster response among sister agencies.
• Study the effectiveness of data dashboard tools.
• Identify data to incorporate into dashboards and storytelling elements.
• Create a manual for new datasets and storytelling elements.

Skills

Writing/Editing

General Skills

Social Services

Disaster Services

Team Work

Education

Some college

Job description

This VISTA position will help us assist tens of thousands of people throughout Louisiana. They will work with our Resource Department, which manages our human services database that clients use to connect with all types of human services that they need. The VISTA will help evaluate this database and identify ways to expand it. They will ensure that we are prepared to support residents during disasters by helping to develop the tools that we use during hurricanes and pandemics. This VISTA will also expand how we share data with our community. The VISTA will develop valuable data analysis skills by learning how databases are structured, and how to use Microsoft Power BI software and using it to create data dashboards. Our data dashboards are used by a range of government and nonprofit organizations, and this VISTA will identify new ways to analyze our data so that it can be useful for the public. The VISTA member will alleviate poverty in Southeast Louisiana by improving the human services referrals that VIA LINK makes to residents, which will help them connect with services that can improve their health and financial outcomes. They will also address poverty by improving the human services data that nonprofits, foundations and government agencies have access to so that they can conduct better planning and create more effective programs to address poverty.

Member Duties:

Work with our call center and care navigation team to identify types of services that our resource database is lacking and work to expand those areas. Assess the quality of records in our resource database and standardize. Assist in updating VIA LINK’s style guide to identify changes that need to be made. Attend community events as appropriate to identify new partners to include in our resource database. Evaluate how our tools worked for our contact center staff and the public during previous disasters. Research best practices for disaster response among sister agencies. Study the effectiveness of our data dashboard tools. Identify new data that could be incorporated into our dashboards and ways to make them more useful to public health org's. Conduct research and propose ways that VIA LINK can incorporate storytelling into its data dashboards. Create a manual with information about the new datasets and storytelling elements.

Program Benefits:

• Childcare assistance if eligible
• Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend
• Health Coverage*
• Living Allowance
• Relocation Allowance
• Training

• For details about AmeriCorps VISTA healthcare benefits, please visit https://americorpsvista.imglobal.com/ .

Terms

None

Service Areas

• Community and Economic Development
• Community Outreach
• Disaster Relief
• Ex-Offender Reentry
• Hunger
• Homelessness

Skills

• Writing/Editing
• General Skills
• Social Services
• Disaster Services
• Team Work

Program Type:

AmeriCorps VISTA

Program

AmeriCorps Resource and Data VISTA

Program Start/End Date

11/16/2026 - 11/15/2027

Work Schedule

Full Time

Education level

Some college

Age Requirement

Minimum: 18 Maximum: None

Program Locations

LOUISIANA

Accepting Applications

From 10/09/2026 To 10/21/2026

Contact

Berit Turnquist
3445 N Causeway Blvd
Metairie LA 70002
6517241660
[e-mail]
www.vialink.org