Communications & Volunteer Recruitment VISTA

AmeriCorps & Senior Corps; California (MO); On-site; USD 15,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Education award

Transportation Reimbursement

Training

Living Allowance

Choice of Education Award or End of St

Relocation Allowance

Health Coverage

Childcare assistance

Job summary

We Strive for Literacy (WSFL) is building the Vista Literacy Collaborative to connect low-income children with literacy support through schools, families, and volunteers. This AmeriCorps VISTA role helps create systems, tools, and practices that endure beyond the service year.

Based in WSFL's Vista office, you will work with a three-person VISTA team, receiving supervision, coaching, and professional development while strengthening partnerships and referral pathways.

Qualifications

• Experience in communications, volunteer recruitment, or nonprofit outreach.
• Ability to develop messaging guides, content calendars, and campaign workflows.
• Strong writing/editing and content planning skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and implement volunteer recruitment systems and communications channels.
• Assess audiences, channels, and recruitment needs.

Skills

Communications

Recruitment

Content creation

Editing

Community outreach

Job description

Communications & Volunteer Recruitment VISTA

We Strive for Literacy (WSFL) is building the Vista Literacy Collaborative so schools, families, community organizations, volunteers, and funders can work together to connect more low-income children with timely literacy support. Nearly two-thirds of Vista Unified students are not reading at grade level, leaving many children significantly behind in the foundational literacy skills they need for school success. Families must also navigate disconnected services, making it harder to find timely, effective support. Over three years, the Collaborative expects to benefit approximately 300 low-income children and families by strengthening partnerships, referral pathways, volunteer systems, community awareness, and sustainable resource development. This is a capacity-building service opportunity: AmeriCorps VISTA members create systems, tools, relationships, and documented practices that remain after their service year rather than provide ongoing direct tutoring. Members serve from WSFL’s Vista office as part of a three-person VISTA team and receive structured supervision, project coaching, and professional-development support.

Member Duties :

• Build communications and volunteer recruitment systems that increase awareness of local literacy opportunities and mobilize community support. Assess existing communications, audiences, channels, volunteer needs, and recruitment processes; develop a messaging guide that clearly relates the VLC to WSFL; create a community-awareness plan, content calendar, reusable templates, and campaign workflow; define volunteer roles; develop outreach, intake, screening, onboarding, communication, tracking, retention, and recognition systems; and pilot recruitment and awareness campaigns. Analyze results, improve the systems and contribute final tools to the Replication Toolkit. Year 1 targets include using the newly developed recruitment system to recruit at least 12 prospective volunteers, pilot screening and onboarding tools with staff, evaluate the effectiveness of the recruitment and retention systems, and provide documented procedures that staff can use to sustain an active volunteer pipeline.

Program Benefits :

• Education award upon successful completion of service
• Transportation Reimbursement
• Training
• Living Allowance
• Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend
• Relocation Allowance
• Health Coverage*
• Childcare assistance if eligible

Service Areas :

• Education
• Community Outreach
• Children/Youth

Skills :

• General Skills
• Recruitment
• Computers/Technology
• Community Organization
• Communications
• Writing/Editing
• Content creation and planning

Communications & Volunteer Recruitment VISTA