LISC AmeriCorps Member Serving at the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation
Full-Time (1700 hour in 10 months)
Ideal Start Date: October 1, 2015
Local Initiatives Support Corporation and the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation are seeking a full-time AmeriCorps member to serve as a Project Assistant for New Construction. The ideal candidate will begin service on October 1, 2015 and serve a minimum of 1700 hours though the end of his/her term on July 31, 2016.
The Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation (JCNI) is a nonprofit economic and community development corporation created by the Jacobs Family Foundation in 1997. JCNI is working in partnership with the community to revitalize ten distinct low to mid income communities within the Diamond Neighborhoods recovering from decades of disinvestment, high unemployment, blight, and high rates for health and safety problems. Partnerships are focused on community redevelopment/revitalization, arts and community development, civic engagement, and economic development. Our vision is to be part of a caring community where people are responsible to each other, where all cultures are embraced, where sustaining resources are in place for a vibrant economic and philanthropic life, and where residents create the future they envision. Our mission is to foster a thriving community envisioned and realized by its residents. This is accomplished by empowering resident ownership of neighborhood change, and focusing investments and economic development efforts in the southeastern neighborhoods of San Diego City in an area commonly called the Diamond Neighborhoods. JCNI acts as the backbone where appropriate for efforts towards community improvement in areas such as education, public safety, youth development, community health, and others that are critical to the fabric of the community and sustainable change.
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) is dedicated to helping community residents transform distressed neighborhoods into healthy and sustainable communities of choice and opportunity — good places to work, do business and raise children. LISC combines corporate, government and philanthropic resources to help community-based organizations revitalize underserved neighborhoods. This strategy extends to the LISC AmeriCorps program where we support placing AmeriCorps Members with local non-profit partners. Members assist in efforts to revitalize underserved neighborhoods across America and create vibrant places for people to live, work, and play.
The member selected to serve in this capacity will be responsible for:
The Project Assistant for New Construction will assist the JCNI Redevelopment Team in all aspects of the construction process of JCNI’s redevelopment plan. He/She will assist with grant compliance, data tracking as well as interface with contractor(s), public notification, certified payroll certification reporting, and documentation management. He/She will also coordinate with development contractors during other predevelopment and construction activities to assure grant documentation and public notification is undertaken.
Members perform day to day service at Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation but are expected to attend and participate in all LISC AmeriCorps sponsored activities including but not limited to:
- Attending a national leadership conference tentatively scheduled for March 2016;
- Attending all locally sponsored monthly meetings;
- Participating in nationally sponsored webinars;
- Actively participating in at least two locally identified and team coordinated service projects (one for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service and one for National AmeriCorps Week); and,
- Engaging in any other LISC events as determined by the local LISC office.
This is an AmeriCorps position. As such neither LISC nor Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation will allow the member to engage in activities that are considered prohibited under the terms of the grant while serving as a LISC AmeriCorps member.
Desired Skills
- Desire and ability to work with a diverse group of people, particularly those living in low-income distressed neighborhoods
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment
- Computer skills
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Ability to work a flexible schedule (some night and weekends may be required)
Program Eligibility Requirements
To be eligible to participate as a LISC AmeriCorps member the candidate must meet all eligibility requirements to serve as a National Service participant including but not limited to:
- Possess a high school degree, GED certificate or agree to achieve GED during the term of service
- Be at least 17 years of age (note there is no upper age limit)
- Have proof of status as a US citizen or possess permanent resident status and be able to provide documentation as determined by CNCS (is different than documentation for employment)
- Be eligible to earn a full-time education award
- Be eligible to perform a term of national service
- Be available to serve for a full 10 month period of time and within that time period complete a minimum of 1700 hours of service
- Be available for service from October 1, 2015 through July 31, 2016
Criminal Record Searches
If a candidate has a criminal record, it does not necessarily make a candidate ineligible for service. Only candidates who are subject to registry on the National Sex Offender Public Website or have been convicted of First Degree Murder may not perform service. All candidates offered the position must consent to a search of the National Sex Offender Public Website and a State Level Criminal History Search. Members whose service will have them providing direct service to a vulnerable population will have to consent to an FBI level search. Vulnerable populations are defined as: (1) “children” defined as individuals aged 17 and under consistent with the PROTECT Act; (2) “elderly” defined as individuals sixty years of age (the lowest age commonly used by Congress to define elderly persons); or (3) “individuals with disabilities” as defined in the Rehabilitation Act in 29 USC 705(20)(B) and covers any individual who has a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more major life activities or is regarded as having such an impairment. Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation attests that this AmeriCorps position will not have the candidate performing direct service to a vulnerable population.
Program Benefits
Upon successful completion of the term of service, the member will be eligible for a $5,730 education award to pay off existing, eligible student loans or return to school. The position pays a total stipend of $15,000. The stipend is paid in 20 equal checks twice a month. Direct deposit is available and highly encouraged. A health care benefit is available for the participant only (dependents are not eligible). For members with children under the age of 13, there is a child care subsidy benefit available which is dependent on the participant meeting all eligibility requirements (This benefit is administered by a contracted provider via the Corporation for National and Community Service).
Resumes should be sent to:
We promote equal opportunity in selecting AmeriCorps members.
We are committed to diversity and inclusion in the selection process.
