Year-Long AmeriCorps VISTA Associate

• Full-time, Monday through Friday
• 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 its 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 OCS Lead Gardener, Resilience Coordinator, and Volunteer Coordinator.
• Improve access to fresh, nutritious, sustainable food for low-income community members struggling with food insecurity.
• Develop a build-a-garden program that will give clients resources needed to start home gardens: building materials, seeds, and instructions for cultivation.
• Develop curriculum for cooking and nutrition courses to take place using the OCS kitchen. These will focus on teaching basic cooking skills and showing how to use ingredients from the OCS food pantry to create meals; and health goals based on the results of client surveys.
• Work with OCS staff to expand food rescue efforts and outreach, thereby increasing food donations to OCS that directly benefit clients.
• Develop additional educational opportunities as time permits.
• Participate in staff meetings and training.

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.