(REMOTE) Greater South Sound AmeriCorps VISTA Team
By joining the Greater South Sound VISTA team, you can serve your community and start your career. Our community needs you to be a catalyst for change. Apply to serve with the Greater South Sound VISTA team to make a difference and go where you are truly needed.
With VISTA, you choose where you submit your application - select the Host Sites that you’re the most passionate about. Each Host Site creates an individualized VISTA Assignment Description (VAD) to plan out the VISTA’s upcoming Year of Service, so each VISTA position is unique. Sample responsibilities listed in recent VADs include: developing trainings for food bank volunteers, revising policies for a shelter, creating a public awareness campaign to prevent human trafficking, writing grants for a free childcare program, and more.
Open Positions
- Community Engagement VISTA at United Way of Thurston County (Olympia, WA) - Develop critical community engagement programs in Olympia! Join United Way to build exciting, new, high-quality programs to mobilize the caring power of community by informing, inspiring, and engaging! Click here to apply now!
- Community Connection Coordinator VISTA at Quixote Communities (Olympia, WA) - Fight poverty at Quixote Communities, a tiny home village providing permanent supportive housing, community, and rich peer mentorship for 30 formerly homeless adults in Olympia. Click here to apply now!
- Community Outreach Coordinator VISTA at St. Vincent de Paul Tacoma, Pierce County (Tacoma, WA) - St. Vincent de Paul's Homelessness Prevention and Basic Needs Program needs you! We're known for our thrift stores, but our mission is much broader, providing support to those most in need. Click here to apply now!
- Emergency Preparedness and Response Program VISTA at Thurston County Public Health & Social Services (Olympia, WA) - Support Thurston County Public Health's Medical Reserve Corps volunteers and emergency preparedness and response team build vital capabilities to serve our vulnerable communities in Thurston County. Applications will be accepted in summer 2020 for a November 2020 start date.
- Food Drives Coordinator VISTA at Thurston County Food Bank (Olympia, WA) - Food drives are critical resources for Thurston County Food Bank. Help us thrive by recruiting and retaining volunteers, thanking donors, bulding tracking systems, and streamlining and organizing operations. Click here to apply now!
- Literacy and Learning Outreach and Engagement VISTA at South Sound Reading Foundation (Olympia, WA) - Promote literacy and youth education with the Reading Foundation in Olympia, WA! Help formalize our reading enrichment programs and build our volunteer base to better serve low-income children and youth. Click here to apply now!
- Resiliency Learning and Outreach Coordinator VISTA at United Way of Clallam County (Port Angeles, WA) - Build resilience in Clallam County! Strengthen a rural, cross-sector consortium's effort to share how adversity affects people, agencies provide trauma sensitive care, and impact on community wellness. Click here to apply now!
- Veterans Community Connection Coordinator VISTA at Quixote Communities (Orting, WA) - Support veterans at Quixote Communities! We are a tiny home village providing permanent supportive housing, community, and rich peer mentorship for 35 formerly homeless veterans in Orting, WA. Click here to apply now!
- Volunteer Training Development Coordinator VISTA at People First of Washington (Lakewood, WA) - Join People First of Washington, a nonprofit led by people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, build a volunteer support network and training system for members and volunteers throughout Washington. Click here to apply now!
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*Full time remote service is currently allowed for VISTA members.
About VISTA
- Greater South Sound VISTA Team Facebook & Instagram
- 13 Lessons on Poverty video
- History of VISTA
- Stories of Service from former VISTAs
- Bi-weekly living allowance of $479.08-$542.22 (pre-tax)
- End-of-Service Award: choice of $6,195 Segal AmeriCorps Education Award or approximately $1,800 cash stipend
- Healthcare
- Childcare assistance if eligible
- Relocation Assistance for applicants moving more than 50 miles from home to serve ($750 settling in allowance in addition to first payment of Living Allowance, plus 40 cents/mile moved)
- Loan forbearance and interest accrual payment or deferment on qualified student loans
- Service-Related Transportation (mileage remibursement or public transit pass)
- Comprehensive leave benefit
- High-quality training, orientation, and professional development
- 20% of weekly service hours may be spent on educational opportunities that develop skills required of you in your service
- Non-Competitive Eligibility (NCE) status for one year upon completion of service for Standard VISTAs
- Opportunity be part of multiple teams as part of host site, United Way,and AmeriCorps networks