Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Missouri has received an AmeriCorps grant to build our capacity to serve more children in the next three years. The proposal includes the hiring of three full-time AmeriCorps members and six college students.
There will be three 1700 hour positions (September – August). There is a living allowance of $11,800 for a year, health insurance, and an education award of $5,350 after the end of one year of service that can be used to pay off school loans or to pay for future education. These positions will include recruiting and coordinating mentors and planning Big/Little match activities.
The quarter-time jobs for college students are 450 hour positions over nine months (September – May) or approximately 15 hours a week allowing for school breaks. There is a living allowance of $2,950 plus an Education Award of $2,950 at the end of the 450 hours of service. These students will recruit on high school and college campuses and in the community and mentor in the schools.
We are still developing the job descriptions, but the target areas for recruitment on high school and local college campuses will be:
- Faith based
organizations
- Sororities and
Fraternities
- Students interested in
outdoor activities
- High School students
- Students in general
If you are interested in one of the positions, please email your name, email, address, cell number and address where you can be reached this summer to Kerrie.Bloss@bbbs.org. She will send you information on how to go online to apply for the positions. We will go to training in the next few weeks so you probably won’t receive that information for a while until we learn it ourselves. The exact date that the positions is not known yet, but it is likely when college starts the fall semester.
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