Resource and Data VISTA

Position: AmeriCorps Resource and Data VISTA
Ameri Corps Resource and Data VISTA

This VISTA position will help us assist tens of thousands of people throughout Louisiana. They will work with our Resource Department, which manages our human services database that clients use to connect with all types of human services that they need. The VISTA will help evaluate this database and identify ways to expand it. They will ensure that we are prepared to support residents during disasters by helping to develop the tools that we use during hurricanes and pandemics.

This VISTA will also expand how we share data with our community. The VISTA will develop valuable data analysis skills by learning how databases are structured, and how to use Microsoft Power BI software and using it to create data dashboards. Our data dashboards are used by a range of government and nonprofit organizations, and this VISTA will identify new ways to analyze our data so that it can be useful for the public.

The VISTA member will alleviate poverty in Southeast Louisiana by improving the human services referrals that VIA LINK makes to residents, which will help them connect with services that can improve their health and financial outcomes. They will also address poverty by improving the human services data that nonprofits, foundations and government agencies have access to so that they can conduct better planning and create more effective programs to address poverty.

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Member Duties :
Work with our call center and care navigation team to identify types of services that our resource database is lacking and work to expand those areas. Assess the quality of records in our resource database and standardize. Assist in updating VIA LINK's style guide to identify changes that need to be made. Attend community events as appropriate to identify new partners to include in our resource database.

Evaluate how our tools worked for our contact center staff and the public during previous disasters. Research best practices for disaster response among sister agencies. Study the effectiveness of our data dashboard tools. Identify new data that could be incorporated into our dashboards and ways to make them more useful to public health org's. Conduct research and propose ways that VIA LINK can incorporate storytelling into its data dashboards.

Create a manual with information about the new datasets and storytelling elements.

Program Benefits :
Living Allowance , Childcare assistance if eligible , Training , Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend , Health Coverage* , Relocation Allowance .

Terms :

None

Service Areas :

Hunger , Ex-Offender Reentry , Disaster Relief , Community Outreach , Homelessness , Community and Economic Development .

Skills :

Team Work , Social Services , Disaster Services , General Skills , Writing/Editing .