VISTA with PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS

To organize and help deliver the technical and marketing plans and host the conferences. Their background will be an extensive sales and marketing career.

Requirements for the position:

This candidate should have an extensive and successful career in business, probably in technology. They will have been heavily involved in sales and marketing and certainly in the leadership of small teams and perhaps large teams as well. They will definately have a rich address book of technical and corporate contacts, gleaned over a long career. They will be accomplished at public speaking to small or large groups. They will be a 'peoples person' with a pastoral style of leadership, used to dealing with all sort of people, including the more technically minded and encouraging the best out of them. They will very likely have a pension and feel that they want to give something back to society in a more humanitarian kind of way. They may be able to demonstrate a commitment to humanitarian work, through a church commitment or a rotary club commitment, over the years.

They will be enthusiastic about the idea of a mobile mapping unit, not least because they possibly have their own mobile home. They will be happy to provide at least one employer's references and at least one personal reference. If they are married, we very much hope their Partner would come and work with them, and if they own an RV it may be necessary for them both to live in it for several weeks (or months), whilst the project kicks off, although GMA and UNO will do their very best to make built accommodation available. They must be very flexible in their expectations, as this is very much a start-up situation. They must be prepared to accommodate the Americorps*Vista way of doing things, and write a one page weekly report for the GMA/UNO partnership. They will preferably hold a degree in a relevant subject.

On a day-to-day basis they are responsible and accountable to Professor Juana Inbanez, the Americorps*Vista Supervisor at the University of New Orleans.

Duration: One year, possible to renew.

Remuneration:

This is on the Americorps*Vista pay scale and is very modest. There is an end of contract bonus that can be converted to an educational supplement.

VISTA with RESEARCH AND DISASTER EXPERTISE

To support the Manager and other Vistas. To help find and input contacts into a computer database for conference(s) presentations. Organize and maintain the website, support the Manager and other Vistas with real disaster knowledge. Their background will be humanitarian work in the USA or overseas.

Requirements for the position:

This candidate will have had some disaster or development related work experience, they will be good at making administrative procedures, project proposal writing and all types of donor relations and follow up. They will be conversant with project management software and be able to create 'gant charts' that show time and motion, current and sequential activities. They must be able to demonstrate a commitment to humanitarian work, through operational deployment. They will be an outdoors type of person. They will be happy to provide at least one employer's references and at least one personal reference. They will hold a degree in a relevant subject.

They must be very flexible in their expectations, as this is very much a start-up situation. They must be prepared to accommodate the Americorps*Vista way of doing things.

On an ad hoc basis they are officially responsible and accountable to Professor Juana Inbanez, the Americorps*Vista Supervisor at the University of New Orleans.

At an informal level they are daily responsible to the project Manager.

Duration:- One year, possible to renew.

Remuneration:

This is on the Americorps*Vista pay scale and is very modest. There is an end of contract bonus that can be converted to an educational supplement.

VISTA with GIS SKILLS

To lead GIS training support the Manager and other Vistas.

Requirements for the position:

This candidate will have had some extensive GIS experience in the private or public sector. They will know all about data collection, data storage and mapping systems. They will be an outdoors type of person. They will be happy to provide at least one employer's references and at least one personal reference. They will hold a degree in a relevant subject. They will be ready to start to make demonstration maps as soon as they join the project that can be used for marketing purposes. They will be able to give GIS classes including data capture. They will hold a degree in a relevant subject.

They must be very flexible in their expectations, as this is very much a start-up situation. They must be prepared to accommodate the Americorps*Vista way of doing things.

On an ad hoc basis they are officially responsible and accountable to Professor Juana Inbanez, the Americorps*Vista Supervisor at the University of New Orleans.

At an informal level they are daily responsible to the project Manager.

Duration:- One year, possible to renew.

Remuneration:

This is on the Americorps*Vista pay scale and is very modest. There is an end of contract bonus that can be converted to an educational supplement.

VISTA with TECHNICAL ELECTRONIC EXPERTISE

To support the Manager and other Vistas

Requirements for the position:

This candidate will have a sound technical knowledge of vehicle electrical and mechanical systems as well as 'having machine oil under their finger nails.' They will be well versed in alternative power supply systems for vehicles. They will be able to draw up diagrams and pictures and models of what a vehicle could look like. They will be an outdoors type of person. They will be happy to provide at least one employer's references and one personal reference. They will hold a degree or equivalent in a relevant subject.

They must be very flexible in their expectations, as this is very much a start-up situation. They must be prepared to accommodate the Americorps*Vista way of doing things.

On an ad hoc basis they are officially responsible and accountable to Professor Juana Inbanez, the Americorps*Vista Supervisor at the University of New Orleans.

At an informal level they are daily responsible to the project Manager.

Duration:- One year, possible to renew.

Remuneration:

This is on the Americorps*Vista pay scale and is very modest. There is an end of contract bonus that can be converted to an educational supplement.

ACTION VOLUNTEER GROUP MEMBER Non-VISTA Position

To provide a remote service, being willing to provide informal advice, ideas, feedback, contacts, cash. Their background will be an extensive 'life experience'. The VISTA Team will rely on the ACTION VOLUNTEERS to provide vital help. This is a home based position.

Requirements for the position:

This candidates for this Team are expected to be very interested in the Geo ERV project, but for whatever reason, unable to apply for a VISTA role. Alternatively the GMA and UNO partnership may be highly respectful and impressed by their skills and experience, yet feel these would be better applied as an Action Volunteer.

One of the Action Volunteers, having administration skills, will be chosen to establish a database of all the other members, that the VISTA Team can rely upon, when they put out a call for any type of assistance they choose.

Duration: On-going, by mutually agreeable consent between the Member and the GMA/UNO Partnership.

Remuneration:

There is no financial remuneration, however the Team members will be publicly and respectfully thanked from time to time, added to which they will have the satisfaction of having 'made a difference.'