The City of Birmingham Mayor's Initiative VISTA program's primary focus is on tackling the multifaceted challenges of poverty by addressing issues related to infrastructure, health, education, and economic growth within vulnerable demographics in Birmingham. Aligned with the Mayor's strategic plan for neighborhood revitalization, VISTA members are strategically placed in different city departments with the primary responsibilities of understanding and evaluating the current organizational structure, activities, plans, and resources of their sites of service; identifying the needs of citizens, communities, and neighborhoods currently being served by their sites of service; and discovering opportunities, methods, and imaginative solutions to increase the capacity of these sites to offer better services and programming that help alleviate the effects of poverty and have a positive effect on the citizens of Birmingham.
Member Duties : VISTA members strategically serve within different city departments. The primary responsibilities of VISTA include understanding the current organizational structure, activities, plans, and resources of their assigned service sites; identifying the values, issues, and needs of citizens and communities served by these sites; and collaborating with supervisors, peers, stakeholders and community partners to discover and create opportunities, methods, programs, tools, and solutions for addressing pressing issues and needs to have a positive impact on citizens. Through servant leadership and by putting people first, VISTA members will increase and enhance the capacity and effectiveness of city government to offer services and programming that help alleviate the effects of poverty and contribute positively to the chief goal of neighborhood revitalization.
Program Benefits : Training , Health Coverage* , Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend , Childcare assistance if eligible , Stipend .
Service Areas :
Community Outreach , Community and Economic Development , Homelessness , Education , Housing , Neighborhood Revitalization , Ex-Offender Reentry , Health , Public Safety .
Skills :
Communications , Urban Planning , Business/Entrepreneur , Education , Youth Development , General Skills , Recruitment , Community Organization , Leadership , Public Speaking , Non-Profit Management , Writing/Editing , Social Services , Team Work .
City of Birmingham Mayor's Initiative VISTA
Minimum: 18 Maximum: None
Program Locations
ALABAMA
From 07/16/2024 To 08/24/2024