Storytelling VISTA

AmeriCorps & Senior Corps

California

On-site

USD 15,000 - 18,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Childcare assistance

Education Award or End of Service Stip

Health Coverage

Living Allowance

Stipend

Training

Job summary

Step Up is seeking a communications-focused volunteer to help design a quarterly story intake form, build a database for storing stories by theme, audience, format, and subject, and document the workflow from opportunity to distribution.

The role will contribute to creating an impact narrative framework to ensure Step Up's messaging across channels remains consistent yet adaptable to context, while supporting national visibility and mentorship programs.

Qualifications

Design experience for storytelling intake forms and prompts.
Ability to build a structured story database by theme, audience and format.
Documentation of end-to-end storytelling processes for distribution.

Responsibilities

Design a story intake form for program staff and create prompts to surface story-worthy moments.
Create a structured database storing approved stories by theme, audience, format, and subject.
Document replicable process to identify storytelling opportunities and draft and distribute stories.
Develop an impact narrative framework that stays consistent across channels while fitting context.

Skills

Communications

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

Design a story intake form for all program staff, building a quarterly story collection cadence into the organizational calendar, and creating simple prompts that help non-communications staff recognize and surface a story-worthy moment when they see one
Create a structured database that stores approved stories by theme, audience, format, and subject
Create documented, replicable process for how Step Up identifies a storytelling opportunity, matches it to a story from the library, drafts the story, and follows up to see it through distribution
Create an impact narrative framework —a structured approach to how Step Up talks about its work that is consistent across channels and audiences but adaptable to context.

Program Benefits