Campus Compact VISTA Tufts University

Company: AmeriCorps & Senior Corps
Location: Boston
Posted on: April 20, 2025

Job Description:

The Campus Compact AmeriCorps VISTA program places AmeriCorps VISTA members in full service with our campus and community partners for a one-year period. During this year, members spend 35 hours per week on their host site's campus or with one of that campus's community partners to work on building systems and programs that support low-income college students and community members. The VISTA member's work is to build capacity, meaning that rather than directly serving the community, they're enhancing or creating systems, structures, and resources that support the direct anti-poverty work. Campus Compact functions as the central VISTA program hub, performing program administration, offering training and support to VISTA members and their projects, and connecting the work happening in individual projects both to similar work happening nationwide and back to AmeriCorps. For detailed program information and FAQs, please visit our website.Member Duties : Tufts University, the Community Action Agency of Somerville (CAAS) and Sociedad Latina seek a resourceful AmeriCorps VISTA member to help deepen and sustain community-university partnerships. CAAS is an antipoverty organization serving the Somerville area whose programs include Head Start for preschoolers from low-income households, affordable housing supports and advocacy, and income tax assistance. Sociedad Latina provides year-round afterschool programming focused on low-income students' achievement in STEAM and promoting on-time graduation. With a focus on K-12 education, the VISTA Member will build capacity for the partnership between Tufts and these community-based organizations by piloting volunteer recruitment and training processes for k-12 programming, conducting research to assess the efficacy of Tufts resource deployment to partner community-based organizations, and assisting CAAS and Sociedad Latina in data collection and evaluation of their K-12 programming.Program Benefits :Relocation Allowance,Childcare assistance if eligible,Training,Health Coverage*,Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend,Living Allowance,Education award upon successful completion of service,Additional host site non-cash supports.Terms :
Permits attendance at school during off hours,Permits working at another job during off hours.Service Areas :
Community Outreach,Community and Economic Development.Skills :
Communications,General Skills,Community Organization,Public Speaking,Computers/Technology.
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Keywords: AmeriCorps & Senior Corps, Boston , Campus Compact VISTA Tufts University, Other , Boston, Massachusetts