Traditional Corps Team Leader, Sept 2024-Aug 2025, AmeriCorps NCCC
What is AmeriCorps NCCC?
AmeriCorps NCCC (the National Civilian Community Corps) provides you with valuable life experience and skill development while you lead a team of 18–26-year-olds, earn money for college, travel the U.S., and help communities!
The mission of AmeriCorps NCCC is to strengthen communities and develop leaders through team-based national and community service. Serving with Traditional Corps is a great way work with your hands, discover something different, and reach new heights of personal and professional growth.
Position Overview:
Service will be full-time for 11 months, which includes 1 month leadership training that will start September 2024 followed by 10 months of leading an 8–12-person team young adults. You and your team will be deployed to 4-6 projects across the country serving communities with the greatest need. Training for our Fall 2024 Traditional Corps will be held either at our Southwest Region campus in Aurora, CO or our Pacific Region campus in Sacramento, CA.
Team Leader Duties:
- Lead a team through direct, hands-on service in the areas of natural and other disasters, infrastructure improvement, environmental stewardship and conservation, energy conservation, and urban and rural development.
- As a Team Leader, you will be crucial to your team’s success. You’ll be responsible for directing, motivating, and mentoring, a diverse team of young people.
- Partner organizations and NCCC staff will look to you for coordination of project logistics.
- Gain invaluable supervisory experience, challenge yourself, and build lasting connections.
- Your team could be doing anything from building a house to running a youth summer program, so adaptability is key!
During service, you will receive:
- Basic expenses, including communal housing, meals, and a limited health benefit
- All program-related travel, including to your training location, projects, and back home after your service term
- A modest living allowance for your personal expenses
- Valuable training in leadership, technical skills, teamwork, and more
- Forbearance for federally backed students loans; after you successfully complete your term of service, you are eligible to have the interest incurred during service paid in full
After service, you will receive:
- Segal AmeriCorps Education Award of over $7,000 to use on future educational expenses or to pay back qualified student loans
- Competitive job edge in your job search, including access to a network of over 700 Employers of National Service
- Opportunities to make your education more affordable through scholarships, application fee waivers, and other benefits for AmeriCorps alums provided by hundreds of Schools of National Service