Position Type: AmeriCorps State
Service Commitment: September 2, 2026 – July 16, 2027
Final Application Deadline: August 20, 2026
Car required? Recommended
Driver’s License Required? Yes
Position Summary:
Salish Kootenai College provides quality post-secondary educational opportunities and support for American Indians, locally and from throughout the United States, to achieve their academic and career goals. The College will perpetuate the cultures of the Séliš, Ksanka, and Qlispe’ peoples. The College will empower students to improve the lives of their families and communities through research, leadership, and service. SKC is located in Pablo, MT, the headquarters of the Flathead Reservation and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT), and lies at the base of the Mission Mountains just south of Flathead Lake. With a 10:1 student-to-faculty ratio, SKC serves students from 53 North American tribes across 16 U.S. states and Canadian provinces.
The goal of this project is to partner with the food pantry at Salish Kootenai College (SKC) to develop and implement educational programming around healthy food access, recognizing that increased access to healthy food improves student persistence. This project aims to develop educational resources and programming frameworks on food and health literacy for SKC students and their families through curriculum guides and workshop materials, while strengthening on-campus food pantry operational systems. Additionally, the project seeks to develop and implement outreach and educational strategies to increase student awareness of and access to campus and community food resources, and to establish community engagement event frameworks connecting SKC students with local organizations and CSKT leaders. Finally, this project will develop a SKC Partner Directory resource that strengthens campus-community connections and builds sustainable partnership systems.
The member will develop and implement operational systems for the on-campus food pantry, including educational programming frameworks for cooking demonstrations, volunteer recruitment and coordination systems to expand pantry hours, food drive coordination frameworks, and data collection and tracking systems to monitor pantry utilization and inventory. The member will develop outreach and awareness strategies to increase student knowledge of campus and community food resources, including resource mapping tools and guides, and design and implement culturally and regionally specific food education event frameworks for at least two programs per semester. The member will design community engagement event frameworks connecting SKC students with local organizations and the Center for Prevention and Wellness, including structured reflection tools and student organization partnership coordination systems. Additionally, the member will develop and maintain an SKC Partner Directory by designing and implementing a community mapping process during the first month of service to document local nonprofits, government agencies, businesses, and campuses interested in partnering with SKC, creating a sustainable resource for ongoing partnership development.
Montana Campus Network for Civic Engagement (MCNCE) serves as the intermediary for this project. MCNCE is a coalition of colleges and universities dedicated to fostering civic engagement, service learning, and volunteerism across Montana. Led by CEOs from participating institutions, MCNCE works to improve community life and educate students on civic and social responsibility, preparing them to be thoughtful, compassionate, and engaged leaders.
Ideal Canidate:
Our ideal candidate is someone who is passionate about teaching healthy living practices to SKC students and their families. This person will be on the frontline helping increase food and nutrition literacy. SKC values leadership, team work, and volunteer recruitment in their ideal candidate.
Benefits Include:
- $24,962 VISTA Living Allowance (full year) = $957.46 bi-weekly
- $7,395 Education Award or $1800 cash award
- Relocation Allowance
- Health Insurance
- Personal & Medical Leave
- Non-Competitive Federal Hiring for one year & Eligible for Federal Loan Deferment
- University of Montana access & resources
- Access to regular professional trainings through MCNCE & University of Montana
Professional Skills You Will Gain
- Civic Engagement
- Service-Learning
- Communications
- Indigenous Community Outreach
- Intercultural Relations
- Leadership
- Marketing
- Partnership Development
- Partnership Management
- Program Assessment
- Program Development
- Public Speaking
- Teamwork
- Time Management
- Taking ownership of projects
- and many more…