VISTA Community Education Coordinator

AmeriCorps & Senior Corps; Illinois; On-site; USD 16,000 - 20,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training

Health Coverage*

Living Allowance

Relocation Allowance

Childcare assistance if eligible

Education Award or End of Service Stip

Job summary

Vienna High School hosts VISTA members who support the Impact Southern Illinois Together initiative across Johnson, Pope, Alexander and Massac Counties by building volunteer systems and sustainability infrastructure.

You will conduct needs assessments, design curricula, train staff, pilot new programs, research grants, and develop a sustainability plan to empower local staff independent of ongoing VISTA support.

Qualifications

• Experience in community organizing and youth development preferred.
• Ability to communicate effectively with diverse partner organizations.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Conduct academic enrichment and financial literacy needs assessment.
• Design and administer needs-assessment tool.
• Research evidence-based curricula for enrichment and financial literacy.
• Identify priorities for expanded programming across partner sites.
• Produce a written curriculum plan and facilitator guides.
• Develop educational curricula tailored to regional partners.
• Coordinate with university extension staff to incorporate content.
• Train partner staff and volunteers to deliver enrichment.
• Pilot curricula, gather feedback, and revise.

Skills

Community Organization

General Skills

Youth Development

Education

Communications

Job description

Vienna High School strives to graduate active, self-actualized 21st-century citizens who are caring, career-directed, and value-oriented. Through the Impact Southern Illinois Together project, Vienna High School and its rural partner organizations (Pope County School District, Cairo School District, and Rolling in Faith) are building sustainable capacity to expand programming and resources for low-income youth and families across Johnson, Pope, Alexander, and Massac Counties. VISTA members serve at the Vienna High School hub and are dispatched to partner sites for capacity-building engagements — they do not deliver or directly supervise ongoing programming. Instead, VISTA members build the volunteer systems, partnerships, and sustainability infrastructure that local staff will use to carry this work forward independent of ongoing VISTA support.

Member Duties :

• Conduct an academic enrichment and financial literacy needs assessment
• Design and administer a needs-assessment tool
• Research evidence-based academic enrichment and financial literacy curricula
• Identify grade-level and subject-area priorities for expanded programming
• Produce a written curriculum plan
• Develop academic enrichment lesson plans and financial literacy curricula tailored to regional partner sites.
• Coordinate with University of Illinois Extension staff to incorporate evidence-based financial literacy content.
• Train partner staff and volunteers to deliver academic enrichment
• Pilot new curricula at Vienna High School, gather feedback, and revise
• Produce a written curriculum and facilitator guide for partner staff
• Research grant and resource opportunities and draft funding proposals
• Develop a written sustainability plan documenting curricula for partner staff.

Program Benefits :

• Training
• Health Coverage*
• Living Allowance
• Relocation Allowance
• Childcare assistance if eligible
• Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend.

Service Areas :

• Community and Economic Development
• Education.

Skills :

• Community Organization
• General Skills
• Youth Development
• Education
• Communications.