High School Partnership Specialist VISTA

AmeriCorps & Senior Corps; Minnesota; On-site; USD 18,000 - 20,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Childcare assistance

Education Award or End of Service Stip

Health Coverage

Living Allowance

Relocation Allowance

Training

Job summary

College Possible is seeking an AmeriCorps VISTA High School Partnership Specialist to scale Navigate across Greater Minnesota, pairing near-peer coaches with eligible students to expand college access. This role focuses on expanding partnerships in rural communities and building upon prospect research to steward institutional and community partners beyond the Twin Cities.

The AmeriCorps VISTA will strengthen recruitment efforts, develop outreach and materials, and create systems to track

Qualifications

• Communications and outreach experience.
• Public speaking and presentation skills.
• Ability to recruit and engage students and partners.
• Strong writing and editing for recruitment materials.
• Collaborative teamwork across organizations.
• Knowledge of education access and college readiness.
• Community outreach and stakeholder engagement.
• Adaptability and problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Strengthen student recruitment for Navigate program across Greater Minnesota.
• Research and map potential high schools and community partners; identify target rural communities.
• Develop recruitment materials, promotional resources, and partner MOUs; plan outreach.
• Develop tracking systems with goals/benchmarks for 5–10 new partners.
• Create staff training resources and tools to support recruitment activities.

Skills

Communications

Public Speaking

Recruitment

Writing/Editing

Team Work

Education

Community Organization

General Skills

Job description

High School Partnership Specialist VISTA

Further College Possible's efforts to scale the Navigate program across Greater Minnesota to serve first-generation students from low income and rural backgrounds. Navigate is a tech-connected hybrid version of the Flagship program that matches near-peer coaches with eligible students to combat cyclical poverty. The VISTA will build capacity for student recruitment by re-engaging and expanding the high school network within target rural communities that currently have limited college access programming. This will be achieved by building upon existing prospect research systems to execute a stewardship plan for prospective institutional and community partners located outside of the Twin Cities Metro area.

Member Duties

The AmeriCorps member will strengthen student recruitment for College Possible’s Navigate program across Greater Minnesota. The member will research and map potential high school and community partners, identify target rural communities, and develop a comprehensive student recruitment and partner stewardship strategy. They will create and update student-facing recruitment materials, promotional resources, and partner MOUs, and explore community-based outreach strategies to engage rural students. The member will develop recruitment tracking systems with goals, benchmarks, and feedback mechanisms for 5–10 new high school partners. They will also develop staff training resources, develop tools, materials, and guidance that support staff-led in-person recruitment activities, communicate recruitment progress and best practices, and establish sustainable document control processes to support future recruitment cycles.

Program Benefits

• Childcare assistance if eligible


• Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend


• Health Coverage*


• Living Allowance


• Relocation Allowance


• Training

Service Areas

• Community Outreach


• Children/Youth


• Education

Skills

• Communications


• Community Organization


• Education


• Public Speaking


• Recruitment


• Writing/Editing


• General Skills


• Team Work

High School Partnership Specialist VISTA