Marketing-Volunteer Recruiting Jobs-Vista/Americorps

3 AmeriCorps VISTA positions are available with Alabama Rural Ministry (ARM):

Communication Manager/Volunteer Manager/Student Recruiter&Talent Manager- all three are in communication and marketing fields but with different goals in the ministry.

Alabama Rural Ministry (ARM), is a faith-based ministry that uses community service as a means to develop servant leaders. These servant leaders engage in home repair and children’s outreach as they hone their leadership skills. The desired outcome is to end substandard housing in Alabama.

Americorp Vista positions are designed to help organizations working with the poor and low-income families in the U.S. build capacity. VISTA’s do not conduct direct services with ARM’s clientele as part of their position description. However, they create vital capacity building in areas like communication, data management, volunteer organization and more!

The time frame is 10-12 months and great for gap years.

10-12 months is also great for :

-taking time for discernment,

-gaining experience in your field

-just being able to serve for an extended period.

All positions with ARM are in Opelika, Alabama at a church building with our service area being in Lee and Macon Counties.

Position Description locations: scroll down to see the position details

1) ARM Volunteer and Outreach Manager: https://my.americorps.gov/mp/listing/viewListing.do?fromSearch=true&id=107575

2) ARM Communications and Social Media Manager: https://my.americorps.gov/mp/listing/viewListing.do?fromSearch=true&id=107576

3) ARM Student Recruiter and Talent Management
https://my.americorps.gov/mp/listing/viewListing.do?fromSearch=true&id=107579

Overview: Finding a meaningful way to serve others while developing valuable skills can be daunting and overwhelming. Meanwhile, low-income and under- resourced families and people many times lose hope and are one flat tire away from giving up. ARM works to partner these two groups together to make lasting change: extending love and building hope. We believe we can build more than just repairing homes, we can help rebuild lives.

ARM’s Vision: Transformed rural communities with sustainable homes, strong families, and strategic community partnerships for the glory of God. ARM’s Mission Statement: Discovering, developing, and deploying spiritual leaders that, as disciples of Jesus Christ, minister with under-resourced and rural communities to create sustainable homes, strengthen families, and build strategic community partnerships.

Programs: ARM coordinates affordable housing and home repair efforts in rural, low-income areas of Alabama, predominantly in Sumter, Macon, and Lee counties. ARM runs mission sites to host volunteers doing home repair. ARM helps families apply for home repair grants through partnerships with the USDA, HUD, and the Community Development Block Grant in the City of Auburn. With these programs, ARM provides more extensive repair and some of this work is contracted and some are completed using volunteers. ARM provides day camps and after-school ministry programs for children in the areas where we are providing repair. Finally, we develop community partnerships and have student groups on university campuses.

ARM began in 1998 as a missional summer camp organization in Livingston, Alabama at the University of West Alabama. Livingston is near central Mississippi. It launched an additional site in 2001 in the Central East Alabama area near Auburn and Tuskegee Universities. It now operates as a year-round home repair ministry with a summer children’s camp. It runs year-round in Tuskegee and in the summer in Livingston, Alabama. A significant part of ARM’s outreach is with college students.

VISTA Description 1-Volunteer Outreach Manager

Duties: Design and develop outreach materials for youth and youth director training events and conferences with the ARM Program Director.. Develop and assist with coordinating three training events in the year equipping local groups to engage volunteers assisting with home repair and children’s summer camp. Collaborate with all staff and develop training modules used in other potential communities in Alabama to increase local capacity for volunteering and helping with home repair. Manage and track the volunteers participating with ARM. The VISTA will help organize the databases maintaining ARM’s volunteers and upload new volunteers in the system. The VISTA will design a robust volunteer follow up process for new and returning volunteers.

Skills: Excellent skills in patiently relating to and communicating with diverse people both in person and over the phone. Incredible attention to detail and the ability to understand complex processes. Proficiency in using digital tools such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to create professional, organized documents. Proficiency in web-based tools such as Google Chrome as well as Gmail and Google Drive Ability to learn new web-based tools and CRM platforms. This also includes public speaking, leadership, communications, recruitment, and interest in non-profit management.

VISTA Description 2-ARM Communication and Social Media Manager:

Duties :The communication assistant works with ARM’s Communication Director developing promotional material for summer counselor recruiting events, home repair and children’s day camp publications, and mission team recruiting events. Specifically, create a team recruiting media plan for mailing and electronic publication for potential volunteer groups providing home repair and a children’s day camp. Create blogs posts and make routine, engaging social media posts across social media platforms. Develop a mission team recruiting video and intern recruiting video. Serve during monthly community service days and throughout the summer taking pictures and video and publishing to ARM’s YouTube Channel.

Skills: Creative with film and still photos and how to communicate to young audiences. Excellent skills in patiently relating to and communicating with diverse people both in person and over the phone. Incredible attention to detail and the ability to understand complex processes. Proficiency in using digital tools such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to create professional, organized documents. Proficiency in web-based tools such as Google Chrome as well as Gmail and Google Drive. Willing and able to learn new web-based tools such as Canva. Other skills needed: Public Speaking, Leadership, Computers/Technology, Team Work, Non-Profit Management, Social Media Marketing, and Communications .

VISTA Description 3-ARM Student Recruiter and Talent Manager:

Member Duties : The student recruiter and talent manager works with the ARM Program Director to create a summer camp counselor talent management cycle for discovering, developing and deploying the summer staff and academic interns. The VISTA collaborates with all staff participating in career fairs both virtual and in-person. The VISTA will revise and update the summer camp counselor onboarding and training process. The VISTA will also update the outreach platforms and lists from student career fairs.The VISTA will manage and track participation and student lists from attended career fairs.

Skills: A passion to meet new people and help them find opportunities to serve in internships and paid positions with ARM. Excellent skills in patiently relating to and communicating with diverse people both in person and over the phone. An incredible attention to detail and the ability to understand complex processes. Proficiency in using digital tools such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to create professional, organized documents. Proficiency in web-based tools such as Google Chrome as well as Gmail and Google Drive. Ability to learn new web-based tools Organizational and project management skills

Steps to applying to become an Americorp Vista:

See ARM's website for the ministry overview: www.arm-al.org

1) Research ARM’ available service learning opportunities (please note, these are the non-summer options)

Volunteer Outreach and Management: https://my.americorps.gov/mp/listing/viewListing.do?fromSearch=true&id=107575

ARM Communications and Social Media Manager: https://my.americorps.gov/mp/listing/viewListing.do?fromSearch=true&id=107576

ARM Student Recruiter and Talent Management
https://my.americorps.gov/mp/listing/viewListing.do?fromSearch=true&id=107579

2) When you see the position that you best would like to serve in create a profile with VISTA

3) Create a profile in Americorps MyAmericorp portal https://my.americorps.gov/ OR

https://my.americorps.gov/mp/recruit/registration.do

4) Fill out the VISTA application

5) Set up a call with ARM to discuss the logistic details of the site and any questions you have

6) Set up the interview with ARM to determine if we are a good fit and you have have necessary qualifications

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $1,288.00 per month

Benefits:

• Parental leave
• Paid time off
• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Professional development assistance
• Retirement plan
• Health insurance

Experience level:

• Under 1 year

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

COVID-19 considerations:
We highly recommend being vaccinated against COVID-19 but not a requirement.

Work Location: One location