AmeriCorps Application & Onboarding Process

• To hear about the experience of MCNCE AmeriCorps members read their service blogs.
• Review our current position openings.

You will be required to provide two professional references. Here are a couple of suggestions:

1. Supervisor Reference – Someone who has supervised you in a work or volunteer setting. They should be able to speak to your work ethic, professional skills, and dependability.
2. Service Reference – A professional mentor who can attest to how you live out service values. They should be someone who knows about your commitment to helping others and supporting communities, such as a professor, an athletic coach, a volunteer manager, a member of the clergy, etc.

Important: No more than one professional reference may be from a co-worker. No references may be accepted from a member of the candidate’s immediate family, including their parent, sibling, aunt, uncle, grandparent, or cousin.

Part A: AmeriCorps Application

Your application for AmeriCorps service will be completed and submitted via the My AmeriCorps website, located at my.americorps.gov

Step 1: Create an account by visiting My AmeriCorps, and selecting “Register to create a new Member/Alum account”.

Step 2: Follow the steps to create your AmeriCorps profile.

Step 3: Create an application for your AmeriCorps profile.

Step 4: Once your application is complete, use it to apply to any Montana Campus Network for Civic Engagement AmeriCorps position listed in My AmeriCorps. Check out all of our open positions.

Step 5: Complete your Application Supplement (described below).

Part Two: Application Supplement

Your application supplement will be completed via Submittable and includes important information about your motivations for service with MCNCE, along with an opportunity to share your service site preferences. If you are accepted into the MCNCE AmeriCorps program, these preferences will be used when determining your service site placement. You will receive instructions to complete your Application Supplement after we have reviewed your My AmeriCorps application and references.

You will be asked to include up to three top choices for your service site in your application supplement. During an interview, your interest in those sites will be discussed in greater depth. Candidates receiving an invitation to join the MCNCE program will usually be offered a placement with one of these preferred service sites. On occasion, MCNCE may offer a different placement if our team feels that it will be the best fit for your skills.

After submitting your application supplement, you will receive instructions to schedule an interview. Interviews occur over the phone or via video conferencing software, lasting approximately 60 minutes. Interviews give us a chance to get to know you better and answer your questions about service. They are also your opportunity to share more about your interest in your service site preferences. Within one week of your interview, you will learn whether you have been invited to serve with MCNCE AmeriCorps.

Within one week of your interview, you will be contacted by the MCNCE office. Candidates whom we would like to bring into our program will receive an invitation to serve, and be informed of the service site placement we believe is suitable for them. You will have three days to decide if you would like to accept this invitation and move forward in the process.

Upon accepting their invitation to serve, candidates will be put in contact with the site supervisor specific to their AmeriCorps placement. The candidate and the supervisor will be asked to schedule a call. This conversation will be a chance for you to ask remaining questions about the service site organization, daily duties as an AmeriCorps member, the service community, etc. Most importantly, it is a chance to confirm that the placement will be a good fit, both for the candidate and the service site.

Following the service site conversation, you will confirm to MCNCE that you would like to accept the position. Once you let us know, we will begin your AmeriCorps enrollment and onboarding. In the event that either you or the service site feel that the placement will not be an ideal fit, MCNCE will work with you to determine if another of our service sites will be a suitable placement.