HandsOn VISTA- Welcome to America Project- Resources

AmeriCorps & Senior Corps; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 18,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Coverage

Living Allowance

Relocation Allowance

Training

Job summary

The Welcome to America Project (WTAP) in Phoenix, AZ is seeking a VISTA member to strengthen organizational capacity by developing and refining standard operating procedures and tools for warehouse inventory management, donation intake and tracking, and volunteer coordination.

Responsibilities focus on creating sustainable systems, documenting procedures, and improving connections with community partners to support refugee integration and long-term self-sufficiency.

Qualifications

• Experience in community engagement or refugee communities is helpful but not required.

Responsibilities

• Develop efforts to improve operations of our warehouse and increase connections with community partners.
• Help newly arrived refugees receive essential resources for integration and sustainability.
• Support documentation, tracking, and partner coordination to enable a sustainable hand off.
• Create practical implementation guides and processes staff can maintain after the service year.

Skills

Community Organization

Conflict Resolution

Leadership

Public Speaking

Recruitment

General Skills

Team Work

Job description

Join The Welcome to America Project (WTAP) and help strengthen the systems that connect newly arrived refugees with essential resources as they establish their lives in Arizona. Refugees may face economic hardship and barriers to accessing household goods, community resources, and other supports needed to achieve stability and work toward self-sufficiency. WTAP helps address these gaps, and sustainable organizational systems are essential to expanding its capacity to serve the community.The VISTA member will build organizational capacity by developing, testing, documenting, and refining standard operating procedures and tools for warehouse inventory management, donation intake and tracking, donor acknowledgment and recordkeeping, volunteer coordination, and community partnerships. The member will assess existing processes, identify opportunities for improvement, create practical implementation guides, and document procedures that staff can maintain after the service year. The member will also develop systems to strengthen connections with community partners and improve the organization's ability to coordinate and track donated resources.Rather than performing routine warehouse operations, processing donations as an ongoing responsibility, or facilitating regular volunteer activities, the VISTA member will focus on creating sustainable systems and resources that staff can use to manage these activities more effectively. These capacity-building efforts will help WTAP use resources efficiently, strengthen community partnerships, and improve its ability to connect newly arrived refugees with essential goods and services that support stability and long-term self-sufficiency.Experience with Google Workspace, community engagement, or refugee communities is helpful but not required. Applicants who speak English and languages such as Dari, Pashto, Arabic, Swahili, Rohingya, Spanish, Somali, or Kinyarwanda are encouraged to apply.

Member Duties

Develop efforts to improve operations of our warehouse and increasing connections with community partners, to help newly arrived refugees receive essential resources for integration and aid in sustainability efforts in the community. All of which is to be accomplished to enable a sustainable hand off.

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
• Relocation Allowance
• Training.

Terms

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

Service Areas

• Community and Economic Development
• Community Outreach.

Skills

• Community Organization
• Conflict Resolution
• Leadership
• Public Speaking
• Recruitment
• General Skills
• Team Work.