Government Grants VISTA

AmeriCorps & Senior Corps; California; On-site; USD 18,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Coverage

Living Allowance

Education Award or End of Service Stip

Stipend

Training

Job summary

Step Up's VISTA project seeks to strengthen fundraising and governmental engagement to expand access to mentorship and career readiness resources for low-income girls and young women. The role focuses on building funding infrastructure, mapping stakeholders, and developing grant materials across multiple markets in the United States.

Participants will monitor policy developments and collaborate with schools, districts, and community partners to elevate national visibility and expand Step Up's

Qualifications

• Experience in fundraising or grant writing is preferred.
• Strong writing and editing skills required.
• Ability to work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build a usable funding tracker covering government funding streams.
• Create a government stakeholder map across federal, state, and local levels.
• Develop a government engagement calendar for all markets Step Up operates in.
• Research funding opportunities, develop and write grant applications, and prepare supporting materials.
• Monitor policy developments related to mentorship, youth workforce development, economic mobility, and well-being.

Skills

Communications

Community Organization

Fund raising/Grant Writing

Writing/Editing

Team Work

Job description

Step Up's VISTA project is organized around three strategic pillars: Resource Innovation, Scalable Reach, and Brand Prominence. Each pillar addresses a specific organizational barrier limiting Step Up's ability to reach low-income girls and young women at scale: insufficient fundraising infrastructure, insufficient community infrastructure to enter new markets, and insufficient visibility to ensure young people in those markets know Step Up exists. The project will seek to build the organizational capacity, community infrastructure, and fundraising systems needed to expand Step Up's programming into new markets, develop a partnership model for young women and teen girls, schools and districts and elevate Step Up's national visibility to ensure young people in low-income communities across the country can access the mentorship and career readiness resources they need to move out of poverty and into economic self-sufficiency.

Member Duties :

• Build a usable funding tracker covering federal, state, regional and local government funding streams relevant to Step Up's programming
• Build a government stakeholder map across all of Step Up's markets: federal, state, and local elected officials and their staff, relevant agency leaders in workforce development, education, and youth services, and appointed positions that intersect with Step Up's mission
• Develop a government engagement calendar across all of Step Up's markets
• Research opportunities, develop and write grant applications, and prepare supporting materials
• Monitor policy developments that touch mentorship, youth workforce development, economic mobility, well-being, and/or career readiness

Program Benefits :

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

Terms :

• Permits attendance at school during off hours
• Permits working at another job during off hours.

Service Areas :

• Community and Economic Development
• Community Outreach
• Children/Youth.

Skills :

• Communications
• Community Organization
• Fund raising/Grant Writing
• Writing/Editing
• Team Work.

Program Locations

• CALIFORNIA
• GEORGIA
• ILLINOIS
• NEW YORK
• TENNESSEE
• TEXASAtlanta
• Chicago
• Dallas/Ft. Worth
• Houston/Galveston
• Los Angeles/Orange County
• New York City (inc. Long Island CT NJ NY)
• San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose