Student Support & Basic Needs Innovator

AmeriCorps & Senior Corps; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 17,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Childcare assistance

Education Award/End of Service Stipend

Health Coverage

Living Allowance

Relocation Allowance

Training

Job summary

Georgia Gwinnett College seeks an AmeriCorps VISTA to strengthen sustainable systems that help students facing financial hardship, food or housing insecurity, foster care experience, and other poverty-related barriers access resources that support persistence, well-being, and educational attainment.

The VISTA will build partnerships, improve pantry operations, recruit volunteers, and develop communications to raise awareness of basic-needs resources and campus services for student success.

Qualifications

• Ideal candidates are organized, collaborative, resourceful, and committed to educational equity and student success.
• Strong communication, writing, project management, outreach, volunteer engagement, partnership development, and data-tracking skills are helpful.

Responsibilities

• The AmeriCorps VISTA will build sustainable systems that expand Georgia Gwinnett College students’ access to basic-needs resources and student-success supports.
• They will develop and improve inventory, donation, distribution, outreach, resource-sourcing, and reporting tools for Campus Care Pantry and Grizzly Thrift.
• They will create student-facing communications that promote basic-needs resources, Grizzly Forward, and the Dean of Students Office Case Management process.

Skills

Communications

Community Organization

Computers/Technology

Leadership

Public Speaking

Teaching/Tutoring

Writing/Editing

Non-Profit Management

Team Work

Job description

Georgia Gwinnett College seeks an AmeriCorps VISTA to strengthen sustainable systems that help students facing financial hardship, food or housing insecurity, foster care experience, and other poverty-related barriers access resources that support persistence, well-being, and educational attainment.

The VISTA will build partnerships, improve pantry operations, recruit volunteers, and develop communications to raise awareness of basic-needs resources and campus services for student success.