Immigration Volunteer & Outreach Coordinator and Intake Specialist Americorps

Job Title: Immigration Volunteer & Outreach Coordinator and Intake Specialist Department: Resettlement, Asylum, and Integration (RAI)

Location: San Diego, CA

Job Overview: The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933, the IRC is at work in over 40 countries and 28 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. Established in 1975, the IRC in San Diego has supported over 30,000 refugees from 29 countries to make their new home in San Diego. Today, the IRC in San Diego continues to serve refugees as well as the larger community of new Americans including Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) holders, asylees and asylum seekers, and other immigrants. Increasingly, IRC programs also serve small business owners and others seeking economic empowerment services in San Diego.
What is AmeriCorps: AmeriCorps is a voluntary civil society program supported by the U.S. federal government, foundations, corporations, and other donors by engaging adults in public service work, with a goal of helping others and meeting critical needs in the community. "The program is often seen as the domestic Peace Corps.”
Members commit to full-time positions of completing 1700 hours or part-time completing 900 hours during a 12-month contract

Major Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
· Actively manage 15-20 Immigration Department volunteers to become citizenship tutors and classroom aides, translators/interpreters, or administrative volunteers.
· Work closely with the Immigration and Citizenship Education teams to determine volunteer needs.
· Conduct screening interviews with volunteers interested in the Immigration Department and hold monthly volunteer trainings and orientations for Immigration Department volunteers.
· Actively supervise all Immigration Department administrative volunteers
· Implement recognition activities for Immigration Department volunteers; Maintain active correspondence with the volunteer base to ensure the volunteer experience is going well
· Support the implementation of outreach initiatives for the Immigration Department; Work in the community to build strategic relationships, conduct a variety of outreach activities, and recruit program participants
· Design and implement outreach activities using a variety of media and strategies to increase awareness in local refugee, asylee and immigrant communities about the availability of no-cost and low-cost immigration services.
· Support Immigration legal services.
· Manage a team in accordance with IRC’s People Manager Standards.
· Other duties as assigned.