Beach Park, Great Lakes, North Chicago, Waukegan, Winthrop Harbor, Zion
- 5,419 current girl members *
- 510 current adult volunteers *
VISTA Volunteers
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VISTA Vacancies
- Community Sponsorship Ambassador
- Coordinates with council's community partnership campaign staff manager to give organizational presentations (women's groups, Rotary, collaborators); becomes very familiar with all six recruitment and service delivery options that occur in all communities within the VISTA.
- If Interested:
- Contact: VISTA 12 Manager/United Way Ambassador.
- Family Involvement Ambassador
- Formerly Family Partnership Ambassador. Manages family partnership campaign; encourages fathers, grandparents, and friends to oversee the presentations and process working to make goals; coordinates plans with staff individual campaign specialist; encourages troop committees, shared leadership, and family participation.
- If Interested:
- Contact: VISTA 12 Manager/United Way Ambassador.
- Girl Membership Ambassador
- Formerly Director of Organizers/Recruiters. Plans for recruiting new girl members through various school and community family recruitment events (utilizing the six recruitment and service delivery options); coordinates work of many partner school organizers/recruiters and liaisons; sees girls are placed in existing and new troops/groups; forwards membership registration forms and membership registration fees to registration ambassador; monitors activities of local community events coordinators.
- If Interested:
- Contact: VISTA 12 Manager/United Way Ambassador.
- Learning Opportunities Ambassador
- Combination of orientation specialist and/or trainer. Coordinates, conducts, and/or assists with trainings (age-level and special topics) within a VISTA; assesses volunteers' training needs, and keeps records; facilitates "e-groups" (e-mail groups) to answer or re-direct questions; addresses face-to-face training questions through informal study groups at VISTA meetings; identifies and reports trends to staff adult training coordinator; promotes blended learning opportunities.
- If Interested:
- Contact: VISTA 12 Manager/United Way Ambassador.
- Multicultural Ambassador
- Monitors potential and overlooked population groups; compares local data to potential (outlined in Adult Pluralism Action Plan); keeps alert to community changes through various media outlets (newspaper, chamber, school newsletters); reports diversity to staff Hispanic initiatives specialist; requests translated materials for non-English speaking groups through staff Hispanic initiatives specialist; gets involved with groups through community events.
- If Interested:
- Contact: VISTA 12 Manager/United Way Ambassador.