Mercy Street_Program Development Coordinator VISTA

Americorps•Dallas, TX

37d•Onsite

About The Position

Mercy Street exists to cultivate mutually transforming relationships with inner-city youth through our Sports, Mentoring, and Leadership Institute Programs. Mercy Street serves over 3,100 children annually in West and South Dallas who are primarily Dallas Housing Authority residents and Dallas ISD students. Since 2003, Mercy Street has been working to address the historical low educational attainment and generational poverty experienced by families in West Dallas, one of the most concentrated areas of poverty in our city. In 2019, Mercy Street expanded into South Dallas where there are similar needs. Mercy Street is focused on serving students and families in Dallas Housing Authority communities (public housing) within the city. Mercy Street is focused on addressing historical low educational attainment and generational poverty experienced by our students and families. Mercy Street builds community and individual support through our program offerings which include Mercy Street Sports foster character development, Mercy Street Mentoring, and the Mercy Street Leadership program provides paid internship opportunities focused on preparing them for life after graduation. Further help on this page can be found by clicking here. Member Duties : Mercy Street serves children in West and South Dallas who are primarily Dallas Housing Authority residents and Dallas ISD students. Mercy Street works to address the historical low educational attainment and generational poverty experienced by families in West Dallas, one of the most concentrated areas of poverty in Dallas. Research opportunities to expand summer and after-school programming. Create documents and protocols for the network meetings; establish procedures for sharing records for attendance and feedback in collaboration with partners. Develop processes that document recruitment challenges, obstacles and successes in a Standard Operations manual to use in the future to ensure sustainability. Meet community partners to discuss and document their input for new and expanded programming. The Program Development VISTA will support new and expanded program development for Mercy Street's youth summer and afterschool programming. This position will report in-person 5 days a week.

Responsibilities

Research opportunities to expand summer and after-school programming.
Create documents and protocols for the network meetings; establish procedures for sharing records for attendance and feedback in collaboration with partners.
Develop processes that document recruitment challenges, obstacles and successes in a Standard Operations manual to use in the future to ensure sustainability.
Meet community partners to discuss and document their input for new and expanded programming.
The Program Development VISTA will support new and expanded program development for Mercy Street's youth summer and afterschool programming.