STUDENT ENRICHMENT SERVICES

The SES Americorp VISTA is a position sponsored by Campus Compact and AmeriCorps and hosted at Northwestern within Student Enrichment Services.  

The Campus Compact AmeriCorps VISTA program places AmeriCorps VISTA members in full service with our campus and community partners for a one-year period. During this year, members spend 35 hours per week on their host site’s campus or with one of that campus’s community partners to work on building systems and programs that support low-income college students and community members. The VISTA member’s work is to build capacity, meaning that rather than directly serving the community, they’re enhancing or creating systems, structures, and resources that support the direct anti-poverty work. Campus Compact functions as the central VISTA program hub, performing program administration, offering training and support to VISTA members and their projects, and connecting the work happening in individual projects both to similar work happening nationwide and back to AmeriCorps. 

Now, in year 3 of SES’ newest cohort program, Summer Academic Workshop (SAW), the VISTA will build on previous VISTAs work with SAW survey and assessments to support the Director of the Summer Academic Workshop to improve and edit on existing SAW curriculum and evaluation that connect low-income students with the people and resources needed to increase their knowledge about transition and belongingness at Northwestern University. Additionally, the VISTA will support Student Enrichment Services with our greater goal of connecting all lower-income students with the financial and navigational resources to make the most of their Northwestern experience. 

• Support with administrative and programming tasks for SAW 2025 
• Attend the SAW 2025 Programming Meetings where decision are made regarding the SAW curriculum and program 
• Communicate with incoming SAW participants as needed including, but not limited to pre arrival information and housing information. 
• Support SAW 2026 recruitment efforts, including managing the communication timeline as determined by the SAW Director 
• Support survey and data collection efforts about SAW 2025  by managing the recruitment SAW 2025 participants 

• Welcome students to the SES office and when applicable, provide information regarding SES resources 

• Maintain the SES office space and work with SES Program Assistant to ensure any student needs for the space are addressed (i.e. snacks, decor needs, etc) 

• Co-create and manage the SES Newsletter and Instagram with the SES Associate Director  

• Manage SES’ in kind donation shelf and provide suggestions on donation types based on student feedback collected via a feedback form. 

• Research best hiring practices for student front desk workers, which would be new for the 2026-2027 academic year 

• Support Associate Director and Senior Director in the recruitment and selection of front desk workers for the 2026-2027 academic year 

• Attend orientation, weekly meetings, days of service, and trainings/retreats coordinated by Campus Compact 

• Complete data collection and reporting activities required by Campus Compact and AmeriCorps