AmeriCorps Nutrition Aide

About the role

Through the AmeriCorps Texas grant program, Texas Southmost College (TSC) will have AmeriCorps members who will increase communication about and access to campus resources and support, and increase engagement in campus activities and with academic support services at TSC in Brownsville, Texas. At the end of the first program year, members will be responsible for raising the fall‑to‑spring persistence rate of served students to 75% and the fall‑to‑fall persistence rate to 63%.

Responsibilities

• Serve in the Food Pantry and Community Garden to increase communication about and access to campus resources and support.
• Help students access basic needs through distribution of food at the TSC food pantry and community garden.
• Organize and manage food distribution events and ensure efficient and equitable distribution of resources.
• Educate students, staff, and community members in nutrition, healthy eating habits, gardening, SNAP workshops, and community‑based programs/organizations that assist those experiencing food insecurity.
• Aid in food pantry activities, ensuring food items are stocked, organized, and accessible to all students.
• Assist in coordinating and implementing outreach efforts for student services (e.g., Welcome Week, SNAP workshops, campus events, conferences, webinars) to disseminate knowledge of college procedures and policies to students.

Measures of Success

• At least three student interactions per semester with an AmeriCorps member in the Community Garden, attendance at a workshop or Food Pantry activity co‑organized by a member, or receipt of provisions from a member, with persistence to the end of term or program completion (short‑term outcome).
• Registration for and attendance in the following term (Winter/Spring after Fall or Summer/Fall after Spring) (mid‑term outcome).
• Registration for and attendance in the term starting one year from the initial point of capture or completion of the program (mid‑term outcome).

Physical Demands

The employee is frequently required to stand and occasionally required to walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk or hear, and taste or smell. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.