Growth Strategy VISTA

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Job summary

Step Up seeks a VISTA member for its Growth Strategy VISTA project to help scale programs for low‑income girls and young women. You will develop a standardized market landscape approach, perform priority community assessments, and build a partner outreach system to support expansion into new markets.

You will also design a community expansion scoring rubric to prioritize markets and inform timing for program entry across multiple states, including California.

Qualifications

• Must have a high school diploma or GED.
• Eligible to serve in AmeriCorps VISTA (18+).
• Role supports national program locations across several states.

Responsibilities

• Develop a market landscape assessment methodology for Step Up's expansion.
• Conduct market assessments for priority communities and produce structured reports.
• Identify community partners and build outreach protocols and a warm network.
• Create a scoring rubric to rank priority markets and expansion timing.

Skills

Communications

Community Organization

Computers/Technology

Writing/Editing

Youth Development

Team Work

Education

High school diploma/GED

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

• Create a smaller market landscape assessment methodology that will become Step Up’s standard approach to market assessment; Conduct market assessments for priority communities — applying the methodology to the communities within reach of each region's existing markets to produce a structured report with a clear recommendation about expansion readiness and timing; Create a community partner identification and outreach system — in each priority market, identifying the organizations and individuals that would be critical to a successful Step Up launch. This includes building the contact database and the initial relationship-building protocol, creating a warm network in each priority market before StepUp's formal entry; Create a community expansion scoring rubric — a structured tool that weighs all the assessment factors and produces a relative ranking of priority markets

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 .

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

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 , Computers/Technology , Writing/Editing , Youth Development , Team Work .

Program Type

AmeriCorps VISTA

Program

Growth Strategy VISTA

Program Start/End Date

02/08/2027 - 02/07/2028

Work Schedule

Full Time

Education level

High school diploma/GED

Age Requirement

Minimum: 18 Maximum: None

Program Locations

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

Languages

English

Accepting Applications

From 10/13/2026 To 12/11/2026

Contact

Menon Menon
510 S Hewitt St
Los Angeles CA 90013
3124514870
[e-mail]
www.suwn.org