Year-Long AmeriCorps VISTA Associate

• Full-time Monday through Friday during OCS business hours
• One-year, non-renewable contract
• Living stipend: $957.46 biweekly
• Housing Stipend: $200 monthly
• Choice of end of service award: $7,395 education award or $1,800 cash award

You can help OCS beef up our capacity to get to food to people in southern Lorain County! We're partnering with AmeriCorps to hire a full-time VISTA associate to serve a one-year term, focusing on special projects that will have a long-term positive impact on our operations.

The VISTA will:
• Work closely with the Resilience Coordinator and Volunteer Coordinator.
• Improve access to fresh, nutritious, sustainable food for low-income community members struggling with food insecurity.
• Develop programs for Janet’s Community Kitchen at the Cooper Community Resource Center, 500 E. Lorain St., Oberlin.
• Explore the feasibility of various course types, using surveys, research, and creating partnerships with local experts to find what classes/workshops will best suit our client base.
• Develop feasible classes/workshops into pilot programs.
• Develop screening and training processes for kitchen volunteers, then recruit volunteers for the kitchen.
• Create organizational processes for information related to kitchen programs.
• Participate in staff meetings and training.

NOTE: You MUST apply through AmeriCorps using the link below. OCS cannot consider resumes or other application attempts sent to us directly.

Statement of Inclusion and Accessibility

Oberlin Community Services firmly commits to a policy of equal opportunity and inclusion in all of its activities and operations. Oberlin Community Services does not discriminate on any basis including, but not limited to, race, sex, gender identity or expression, color, class, national origin, dis/ability, ethnicity, ancestry, citizenship status, sexual orientation, marital status, health status, age, military status, religion, or belief. 

Oberlin Community Services welcomes a broad spectrum of employees, volunteers, and constituents and is committed to cultivating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable environment. Everyone is invited to use Oberlin Community Services as a resource—including people who are LGBTQ, immigrants, youth, homeless, and/or formerly incarcerated. 

Oberlin Community Services is committed to working in collaboration with people, agencies, and organizations in Oberlin and southern Lorain County to build a socially just society free from all forms of oppression.