AmeriCorps Service with Impact America
We are actively accepting applications for full-time AmeriCorps member positions.
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Opportunities to Serve with
Impact America
- Check back in January 2025 for more information.
- Community Engagement Specialist
Why Choose Impact America?
Hear From our AmeriCorps Members
The Benefits
As an AmeriCorps member, you will receive a living stipend, education award, student loan forbearance (if applicable), PTO, and paid holidays. The living stipend amounts and days of PTO offered vary based on position and if the member has served a previous term with Impact America. AmeriCorps members serving 35-40 hours per week are eligible for a childcare allowance (based on household income) and health insurance. Impact America covers 100% of the monthly premiums for health insurance. Impact America provides comprehensive initiative- specific training, as well as professional development opportunities, and additional trainings through our DEIB Workgroup and BIPOC Coalition.
Here at Impact America, we embrace differences.
We believe...
...in possibility
...in the potential of all communities to thrive.
...in opportunities to collaborate and work in partnership to address poverty and social and economic injustice.
...in investing in the next generation through meaningful community engagement with opportunities with opportunities for personal growth and development of leadership potential.
...that community should be broadly defined and totally inclusive.
...that poverty is multi-faceted and requires multi-faceted interventions and solutions.
...that empathy and compassion result from and strengthen active citizenship.
...that spending an "Impact Year" or more leads AmeriCorps members to a lifetime of service and active citizenship.
Frequently Asked Questions
- As an AmeriCorps member, you will receive a living stipend, education award, student loan forbearance (if applicable), PTO, and paid holidays. The living stipend amounts and days of PTO offered vary based on position and if the member has served a previous term with Impact America. AmeriCorps members serving 35-40 hours per week are eligible for a childcare allowance (based on household income) and health insurance. Impact America covers 100% of the monthly premiums for health insurance. Impact America provides comprehensive initiative- specific training, as well as professional development opportunities, and additional trainings through our DEIB Workgroup and BIPOC Coalition.
Impact America is an AmeriCorps State & National program. Applicant criteria is based on AmeriCorps requirements. Additionally, Impact America applicants must have reliable transportation and be willing to serve all members of their community.
Complete the application and attach all required documents. Start dates for our 2024-25 cohort will be in July 2024, August 2024, and January 2025. Please review position descriptions for additional information.
Impact America welcomes applications from individuals with disabilities. We have sought to identify the essential functions and physical requirements of all service positions and will make reasonable accommodations through scheduling, task reassignment, and other methods to accommodate applicants and AmeriCorps members. Please contact us should you need accommodations in order to apply.
AmeriCorps Member
Essential Functions & Physical Requirements
Essential Functions
The essential functions of the AmeriCorps position are as follows. These functions may be completed with or without reasonable accommodations:
- Satisfactorily complete all required initiative-specific training and demonstrate ability to implement Impact America’s initiatives
- Successfully recruit, train, and supervise volunteers in a community-based setting
- Collaborate and communicate effectively with community partners to ensure logistical details of initiatives are completed
- Travel throughout respective state to conduct direct service as it relates to Impact America’s FocusFirst and SaveFirst initiatives
Physical Requirements
The physical requirements for this position are as follows:
- Frequent lifting (up to 20 lbs.), bending, pulling, and collating/filing
- Lifting, carrying, and/or moving boxes, files, equipment, etc., some of which could be heavy.
- Frequent travel by car, which may require prolonged periods of sitting in tight quarters
- Significant computer work, which may require repetitive motion, prolonged periods of sitting, and sustained visual and mental applications and demands
We are accepting applications for full-time and part-time AmeriCorps member positions.
Still have questions? Email our Recruitment Team.
Impact is an AmeriCorps Program®. Benefits include the following: Monthly living stipend; education award (received upon completion of term of service); Health insurance; Meals when providing service out of your home county; Mileage reimbursement when driving your personal car for service; All travel costs during overnight trips (hotel, rental car, meals); Ongoing professional development and training
Eligibility Requirements: Documentation of status as a U.S. Citizen, U.S. National, or lawful permanent resident alien (this is an AmeriCorps eligibility requirement); Completion of a college degree (exceptions may be made on a case-by-case basis with prior approval); Criminal background check, including an FBI check, NSOPW check, and a statewide check in the member’s state of residence at the time of application and state of service (if different than state of residence); At least 18 years of age.
Impact America is an AmeriCorps Program
