2025 - 2026 Housing Action VISTA Leader

Housing Action Illinois is a statewide coalition of more than 160 organizations dedicated to protecting and expanding the availability of quality affordable housing throughout Illinois. Since 2010, Housing Action has connected community-based organizations with AmeriCorps members to pilot ideas and expand programs through our Housing Action AmeriCorps Network. During their terms of service, AmeriCorps members take on a variety of roles and projects at their host sites, all aimed at building the capacity of their organizations and helping communities thrive. As of 2022, Housing Action started collaborating with organization nationwide, and we are on track to recruit up to 55 AmeriCorps full year members for our 2023 ¿ 2024 program year.

Our AmeriCorps VISTA Leaders collaborate with staff to manage and enhance our Housing Action AmeriCorps Network. Every Leader carries out certain duties related to promoting leadership, professional development, and collaboration among the AmeriCorps Members and Summer Associates through mentoring, training, troubleshooting, conflict resolution, and creating resources.

In the upcoming year, there will be many special projects to work on. We are looking for Leaders that will focus on improving two main strategies and tactics: 1) recruiting the people that will serve in the upcoming cohort. 2) recruiting the organizations that will host the next cohort of positions.

Our ideal candidate has served in Illinois before and knows how to show up, try new things, work as a team, and step up to lead. Prior experience in supervising a team from a distance, coordinating events, and digital marketing and recruitment campaigns are a plus.

IMPORTANT QUALIFICATION: Leaders must have completed at least one term of service with AmeriCorps VISTA, AmeriCorps State and National, AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC), or one traditional term of service in the Peace Corps.