Description
9/2018 UPDATE: Service opportunities are still available! Preserve WV AmeriCorps members will be placed with individual sites across WV, from museums & archives to downtown revitalization organizations & city agencies. Members help main streets thrive, help communities capture their local history, and help preserve beloved West Virginia landmarks. The Preserve WV AmeriCorps program’s purpose is to implement historic preservation and heritage tourism projects throughout WV by way of historic resource reuse, improvement, and interpretation. A historic resource could be a building, museum/archival collection, structure, landscape, or historic district / downtown commercial district. Members' service will emphasize community development and revitalization through projects focused on historic preservation, volunteer management, and cultural heritage tourism development.
Full-time and half-time service opportunities are still open, with new members able to start after the program's main orientation on August 28, 2018. Late-start full-time slots will end 11.5 to 12 months after the start date, and late-start half-time slots will end August 27, 2019. (Renewal is possible for a second term.)
Preserve WV AmeriCorps offers 2 main categories of site placements for members: Museums, Archives, and Heritage Sites; and Historic Districts, Revitalization Sites, and Thematic Regional Sites. Within those categories, each site has individual needs. A detailed description of all sites and their specific task lists (plus more information about the program) will be provided to applicants upon receipt of the initial application; alternately, you can email dlapresta@pawv.org for a copy in advance.
All members’ duties will include some combination of the following:
* Increase site capacity by recruiting and training volunteers.
* Preserve and enhance site quality through collections management, collections care/maintenance, and preservation activities.
* Increase sites’ public utilization by creating new exhibits; developing tours; conducting living history demonstrations; assisting patrons with research; planning/managing events; organizing beautification or public art projects; and creating walking tours.
* Provide assistance to sites by creating/revising policies; performing outreach marketing; researching/writing Clio entries; creating interpretive or wayfinding signage; completing preservation needs assessments; completing National Register of Historic Places nominations and state Historic Property Inventory forms; completing multi-building inventories; and doing project-specific, non-federal fundraising (10% of time or less).
* Required: Propose, organize, and participate in 2 community-service-oriented, volunteer-based, Civic Service Projects. One must be preservation-related.
9/2018 UPDATE: Service opportunities are still available! Preserve WV AmeriCorps members will be placed with individual sites across WV, from museums & archives to downtown revitalization organizations & city agencies. Members help main streets thrive, help communities capture their local history, and help preserve beloved West Virginia landmarks. The Preserve WV AmeriCorps program’s purpose is to implement historic preservation and heritage tourism projects throughout WV by way of historic resource reuse, improvement, and interpretation. A historic resource could be a building, museum/archival collection, structure, landscape, or historic district / downtown commercial district. Members' service will emphasize community development and revitalization through projects focused on historic preservation, volunteer management, and cultural heritage tourism development.
Full-time and half-time service opportunities are still open, with new members able to start after the program's main orientation on August 28, 2018. Late-start full-time slots will end 11.5 to 12 months after the start date, and late-start half-time slots will end August 27, 2019. (Renewal is possible for a second term.)
Preserve WV AmeriCorps offers 2 main categories of site placements for members: Museums, Archives, and Heritage Sites; and Historic Districts, Revitalization Sites, and Thematic Regional Sites. Within those categories, each site has individual needs. A detailed description of all sites and their specific task lists (plus more information about the program) will be provided to applicants upon receipt of the initial application; alternately, you can email dlapresta@pawv.org for a copy in advance.
All members’ duties will include some combination of the following:
* Increase site capacity by recruiting and training volunteers.
* Preserve and enhance site quality through collections management, collections care/maintenance, and preservation activities.
* Increase sites’ public utilization by creating new exhibits; developing tours; conducting living history demonstrations; assisting patrons with research; planning/managing events; organizing beautification or public art projects; and creating walking tours.
* Provide assistance to sites by creating/revising policies; performing outreach marketing; researching/writing Clio entries; creating interpretive or wayfinding signage; completing preservation needs assessments; completing National Register of Historic Places nominations and state Historic Property Inventory forms; completing multi-building inventories; and doing project-specific, non-federal fundraising (10% of time or less).
* Required: Propose, organize, and participate in 2 community-service-oriented, volunteer-based, Civic Service Projects. One must be preservation-related.
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Living Allowance
$575
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$1150 monthly
Benefits
Childcare assistance if eligible, Education award upon successful completion of service, Health coverage, Living allowance, Student loan forbearance, Training
Additional Benefits
The listed “monthly minimum” living allowance is for half-time members. “Monthly maximum” is for full-time members.
Education Requirements
Some College
Desired Languages
English
Other Conditions
Car recommended
Permits attendance at school during off hours
Uniforms provided and required
Subject to criminal background check