Position Type: VISTA
Service Commitment: June 2, 2025 – June 1, 2026
Final Application Deadline: May 1, 2025
Car required? Yes
Driver’s License Required? Yes
Position Summary:
Fort Peck Community College (FPCC) serves the people of the Fort Peck Reservation and Northeast Montana by providing quality academic, vocational, and community-based programs to improve the employability and efficiency of students. FPCC empowers students so that they are the next generation of workers, leaders and citizens while preserving and promoting Assiniboine and Sioux Culture.
The project will have the long-term impact of moving the FPCC environmental science program to a broader natural resource management program that will be sustained by the College once instituted.
The VISTA member will assess interests and build place-based engaging educational materials to train students to meet those needs. The VISTA member will build the capacity of FPCC’s Environmental Science program to provide more effective education and training to better serve a broader population of students in Natural Resource Management. This will allow graduates to possess a broader range of specific skills to meet the needs of more employers in natural resources management in the local community and surrounding region. This will help break the cycle of poverty by allowing graduates to find and maintain decent jobs and careers, bringing more income to the community while meeting the workforce needs of the community and region for wildlife conservation, improved water quality, climate resiliency and food sovereignty.
Montana Campus Network for Civic Engagement (MCNCE) serves as the intermediary for this project. MCNCE is a CEO-led coalition of colleges and universities that support civic engagement, service learning, and volunteerism across the state. Every year we place cohorts of full-time, part-time, and summer AmeriCorps members with schools, colleges, nonprofits, and government agencies in Montana. The AmeriCorps projects we facilitate increase educational equity, break down barriers between higher education and community organizations, and address the root causes of poverty in communities across the state.
Professional Skills You Will Gain
- Communications
- Curriculum Research and Design
- Intercultural Relations
- Leadership
- Marketing
- Partnership Development
- Partnership Management
- Program Development
- Public Speaking
- Rural Community Outreach
- Teamwork
- Time Management