VISTA Volunteer Engagement Specialist

AmeriCorps & Senior Corps

Tacoma (WA)

On-site

USD 15,000 - 17,000

Full time

11 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Living allowance

Health coverage

Education Award or End of Service Stip

Job summary

St. Vincent de Paul of Tacoma, Pierce County is seeking a Volunteer Engagement Specialist under the AmeriCorps VISTA program.

This full-time role supports volunteer recruitment, onboarding, scheduling, tracking, and recognition across Pierce County sites, including the Community Resource Center and Thrift Store. The position involves building on existing Volgistics SOPs and GE donor/volunteer data systems, writing policies, and developing training materials.

Qualifications

Education level: High school diploma or GED.
Age requirement: minimum 18 years old.
Program locations: WA (Seattle/Tacoma/Bremerton).

Responsibilities

Build on Volgistics SOPs and GE database; assess volunteer processes.
Coordinate recruitment, onboarding, scheduling, tracking, and recognition in multiple sites.
Create system plan, role descriptions, and application, screening, and placement processes.
Draft safety, conduct, and confidentiality policies and an orientation.
Set up scheduling and hour tracking in GE; prepare recruitment materials.
Launch recognition and retention efforts; write a handbook and train site leads.

Skills

Leadership

Environment

Non-Profit Management

Social Services

Team Work

Social Media

Education

High school diploma/GED

Job description

Overview

St. Vincent de Paul of Tacoma, Pierce County (SVdP Tacoma) serves an average of 60,000 residents each year through housing stability programs including a Community Resource Center, a Family Resource Center opened in 2025, street outreach, emergency motel shelter, second-chance employment, a Thrift Store, and 12 parish Conferences across Pierce County. Fourteen percent of Tacoma residents live below the federal poverty line, homelessness in Pierce County rose 43 percent between 2020 and 2024, and affordable housing inventory fell 35 percent over the same period. SVdP Tacoma plays a pivotal role in anti-poverty service, but limited capacity holds back its communications, volunteer, and referral infrastructure. The SVdP Tacoma Outreach Initiative places AmeriCorps VISTA members for three years (January 2027 through July 2029) to build the systems that make housing, food, benefits, and navigation services findable and reachable for residents experiencing poverty. VISTA members build capacity rather than provide direct service. Before their term ends, they hand every system they build over to SVdP staff and volunteers. The Volunteer Engagement VISTA builds on an existing foundation. SVdP used Volgistics for volunteer management in the past, and some standard operating procedures from that time are still in place. SVdP uses GE as its donor database and also bought it for volunteer data, but has no volunteer system running today. The member will update, expand, and put these tools to work across sites.

Member Duties

Help SVdP turn strong volunteer interest into an organized program. You'll build on past Volgistics SOPs and our GE database, not start from scratch. Duties: assess volunteer recruitment, onboarding, scheduling, tracking, and recognition at Conferences, the thrift store, and resource centers; write a system plan; create role descriptions and an application, screening, and placement process; draft safety, conduct, and confidentiality policies and an orientation; set up scheduling and hour tracking in GE; create recruitment materials and present to partners; launch recognition and retention efforts; write a handbook, train site leads, and leave a transition plan.

You'll see how CharityTracker and HMIS are used, but you won't get access or training in them.

Benefits

Living allowance
Health coverage
an Education Award or stipend
federal Non-Competitive Eligibility
nonprofit management skills
For details about AmeriCorps VISTA healthcare benefits, please visit https://americorpsvista.imglobal.com/

Program Benefits