Bay Aging Resource Coordinator AmeriCorps VISTA Member - Urbanna, VA

AmeriCorps VISTA

AmeriCorps VISTA was founded as Volunteers in Service to America in 1965 as a national service program designed specifically to fight poverty in America. In 1993, VISTA was incorporated into the AmeriCorps network of programs under the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). AmeriCorps VISTA Members make a year-long, full-time commitment to serve on a specific project at a nonprofit organization or public agency. They focus their efforts to build the organizational, administrative, and financial capacity of organizations that fight illiteracy, improve health services, foster economic development, and otherwise assist low-income communities.

Virginia Housing Alliance VISTA Project

Virginia Housing Alliance’s (VHA) AmeriCorps VISTA project is a statewide intermediary project with 17 Host Sites, all that either work to expand affordable housing opportunities and/or end homelessness throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. VHA’s VISTA project aims to develop viable communities by promoting integrated approaches that provide decent housing, suitable living environments, and expansive economic opportunities for low and moderate-income persons. This listing is to fill the Host Site opening at Bay Aging located in Urbanna, VA.

Resource Coordinator VISTA Member at Bay Aging

Bay Aging, through its comprehensive transportation, housing, community living and health services programs, is committed to ensuring every neighbor in the Northern Neck-Middle Peninsula region has ready access to a range of services to help them remain independent in their home and community for as long as they choose. Bay Aging is seeking a motivated and creative individual to use their exceptional interpersonal skills in the role of Resource Coordinator VISTA. The Bay Aging VISTA will establish cohesive coordination across Bay Aging, mainstream public benefits, and local service providers by cultivating partnerships, developing standardized practices, strengthening communication, and sharing best practices that align with family-centered and housing first principles. By developing a strategic and coordinated plan of goals, services, and methods across the local network, the VISTA will ultimately streamline processes in order for Bay Aging and their partners to promote self-sufficiency and more efficiently connect clientele with long-term housing solutions.

Member Duties: The VISTA will cultivate relationships with community-based service providers with the goal of creating an efficient, streamlined human service approach across local services. To achieve this, the VISTA will develop, in collaboration with Bay Aging staff and partners, the creation of common applications and understanding of eligibility criteria regarding client intake processes, identify opportunities for the coordination of efforts between resource partners, and implement communication strategies that encourage the sharing of best practices amongst providers. The VISTA will also design a process that allows for clients and people with lived experience to participate in and share input on Bay Aging service delivery, programming, and general practices. In addition, the VISTA will aggregate data on the needs of the community, develop a metric that measures the efficiency of clientele access of programming, and identify areas of improvement to service delivery.

Program Benefits: Childcare assistance if eligible; choice of $7,395 end-of-service education or $1,800 cash benefit after completing their term; health coverage; relocation allowance; training; Professional Development opportunities;

Living Allowance: The VISTA member will receive a living allowance of $877 bi-weekly.

Terms: Car recommended

Minimum age: 18

Desired education level: Associates degree (AA)

Skills: Communications; research and analysis; computers/technology; writing/editing; community services; urban planning; team work

Position Contact Info

Please contact the VHA VISTA Program Manager, Hannah Moore, at hmoore@vahousingalliance.org or at 910-258-2420 with any questions.