Community Partnerships & Access VISTA

AmeriCorps & Senior Corps; California (MO); On-site; USD 16,000 - 19,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Living Allowance

Transportation Reimbursement

Education Award

Relocation Allowance

Training

Childcare assistance

Health Coverage

End of Service Stipend

Job summary

We Strive for Literacy (WSFL) is building the Vista Literacy Collaborative to connect schools, families, community organizations, volunteers, and funders for timely literacy support to low-income children. AmeriCorps VISTA members create systems, tools, relationships, and documented practices that endure after their service year.

Members serve from WSFL’s Vista office as part of a three-person VISTA team, with structured supervision, coaching, and professional development support to strengthen

Qualifications

• Commitment to service and capacity-building.
• Ability to assess partners and develop tools for collaboration.
• Experience in engaging diverse community stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build the partnership and family-access infrastructure.
• Assess current partners, referral practices, barriers, and resources; create a partner map and pipeline.
• Develop and pilot outreach, meeting, and follow-up tools; facilitate staff coordination.
• Evaluate systems, train designated users, and contribute tools and lessons learned to replication toolkit.

Skills

Business/Entrepreneur

Communications

Community Organization

Recruitment

Leadership

Computers/Technology

Relationship building

Public Speaking

Team Work

General Skills

Education

Job description

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 the partnership and family-access infrastructure. Assess current partners, referral practices, family-access barriers, and community resources; create a partner map and organized pipeline; develop reusable outreach, meeting, and follow-up tools; Develop and pilot meeting agendas, facilitation tools, documentation procedures, and follow-up resources for staff to use in coordinating Collaborative meetings.; establish or strengthen relationships with schools and community organizations; and design, pilot, and improve referral and enrollment pathways with input from families and partners. Evaluate the systems, train designated users, and contribute final tools and lessons learned to the Vista Literacy Collaborative Replication Toolkit. Year 1 targets: Establish or strengthen 10 community partnerships and pilot partnership-engagement, referral, outreach, and collaborative-planning tools with at least four partners, documenting procedures for staff to sustain ongoing coordination.

Program Benefits :

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

Service Areas :

• Children/Youth
• Community Outreach
• Education.

Skills :

• Business/Entrepreneur
• Communications
• Community Organization
• Recruitment
• Leadership
• Computers/Technology
• Relationship building
• Public Speaking
• Team Work
• General Skills
• Education