Beat the Streets to hire 12 Summer VISTAs to support organizational sustainability

This summer, Beat the Streets is offering twelve paid Americorps VISTA positions to program alumni and college student-athletes in departments such as programming, development, and marketing and communications.

Americorps VISTA, or Volunteers in Service to America, is a national service program administered by the Corporation for National and Community Service. Designed to strengthen efforts to fight poverty and poverty-related issues, members of the nine-week, summer VISTA program will be aiding BTS in its commitment to serving low-income communities through the sport of wrestling.


These Americorps positions are sponsored by Up2Us Sports, a BTS supporting program that trains coaches on mentoring at-risk youth and distributes VISTA members to local, sports-based youth development programs operating in underserved communities.


“This is a great opportunity,” said Ben Reiter, Mentoring Director of BTS Philly. “It’s inspiring to see different organizations collaborating and coming together to reach more youth and increase their collective, positive impact.”


The BTS branches that are hosting VISTA members this summer include Boston, Philadelphia, New York City, Cleveland, Baltimore, and National. Interested applicants can apply for desired positions within each city separately.


BTS National Executive Director Jeff Marsh believes these VISTA positions will help further the organization’s mission of enhancing the lives of underserved youth through the sport of wrestling.

Applications close June 10, 2020. To apply, read below and correspond with the city you are interested in working with:

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During their nine-week term, VISTAs will fill staffing gaps and serve programs in the following areas. Work will be performed remotely unless otherwise specified.

Length of Position: June 29 to August 28 (9 Weeks)

Hours of Work: Roughly 30-40 Hours/Week (is what the Vista Program Requires, but hours will be worked out directly with the Program Coordinator and Executive Director.)

Payment: Receive a living stipend & education award OR an end-of-service stipend.

Living Allowance: $3,613.64 received via direct deposit

Education Award: $1,311 to be used to pay a current education loan or for future classes ( you have 7 years to use the award)

OR YOU CAN GET A Cash Stipend of $311 instead of the education award.

Available VISTA positions:
Program Implementation

Philadelphia - Four Lead Mentors

Cleveland - Mentoring Planning

Boston - Programming, Coaches in Training Mentor

New York City - Programming Coordinator, Programming Implementation
Marketing and Social Media

National - Communications Coordinator; Marketing Plan/Content Creation

Boston - Communications Coordinator; Marketing Plan/Content Creation

Baltimore - Web Development and Management

Boston - Community Engagement Coordinator
Community Outreach and Development

National - Development Coordinator; Databasing and Systems

Boston - Development Coordinator; Databasing and Systems

Boston - Community Engagement Coordinator

Summer programming

Application:

Please email a resume to the city you are interested in applying to and include a word document with the answers to the following questions:


Are you actively a part of community service? If so, what is your level of commitment?

What are your weaknesses?

What are your strengths?

What kind of supervision/support would you need to be a successful Americorp service member?

Are you available to work full time?


*Applicants must also apply as a VISTA before June 10 here. 

BTS Program emails:

Boston - Bior Guini (bior@bostonwrestling.org)

Baltimore - Lydell Henry (info@btsbaltimore.org)

Cleveland - Demetrius Williams (dwilliams@btscle.org)

Philadelphia - Ben Reiter (breiter@btsphilly.org)

New York - Emma Randall (erandall@btsny.org)

National - Jeffrey Marsh (jeff@beatthestreets.org)