Young Musicians Foundation Specialist VISTA

Young Musicians Foundation (YMF) works to disrupt inequity through healing-based music education, creative career pathways, and community engagement. YMF provides tuition-free arts programming, instruments, technology, and creative opportunities to children, youth, young adults, and families, primarily from low-income and historically underserved communities across Los Angeles. Many young people YMF serves face barriers to quality arts education, mentorship, career development, and pathways to continued education and employment. Young adults, including Transition-Age Youth (TAY) and opportunity youth, may also face barriers related to unemployment or underemployment, limited career pathways, transportation, financial resources, and access to professional networks and creative industry opportunities. The AmeriCorps VISTA project will strengthen YMF’s capacity to address these barriers by developing sustainable outreach, partnership, communications, data, enrollment, retention, and feedback systems. The VISTA will create tools and processes that YMF staff can maintain beyond the service term. Improved outreach and communications systems will help YMF reach more low-income youth and young adults and increase awareness of tuition-free programs and creative career opportunities. Partnership systems will strengthen relationships with schools, colleges, workforce agencies, nonprofits, libraries, and creative industry organizations that can connect young people to YMF. Data and feedback systems will help YMF identify enrollment and retention barriers and improve access and engagement. Communications and storytelling systems will strengthen YMF’s ability to share student experiences, demonstrate impact, and engage community partners and funders. Together, these capacity-building activities will strengthen YMF’s infrastructure and ability to provide low-income youth and young adults with access to music education, creative development, and career pathways.

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Member Duties : 1. Research best practices for engaging TAY, opportunity youth, young creatives, and young adults interested in music and media arts. 2. Develop youth centered outreach materials, including flyers, digital graphics, and email templates, and direct messaging suggestions. 3. Create a system to track where and how TAY students learn about YMF and which outreach methods lead to enrollment. 4. Develop recommendations to improve the class enrollment process for young adults from the first point of contact through registration. 1. Review existing attendance, enrollment, and re-enrollment data to identify patterns in retention. 2. Support the development of feedback tools, such as surveys, focus group questions, and exit forms, to better understand TAY needs and experiences. 3. Analyze feedback to identify barriers to retention, such as scheduling, transportation, communication, etc. 4. Create re-engagement strategies for students who stop attending

Program Benefits : Childcare assistance if eligible , Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend , Education award upon successful completion of service , Health Coverage* , Living Allowance , Stipend , Training .

For details about AmeriCorps VISTA healthcare benefits, please visit https://americorpsvista.imglobal.com/ .

Terms

Car recommended .

Service Areas

Community and Economic Development , Community Outreach , Children/Youth , Education .

Skills

Communications , Community Organization , Computers/Technology , Teaching/Tutoring , Writing/Editing , Youth Development , Social Services , Team Work .

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Summary

Program Type:

AmeriCorps VISTA

Program

Young Musicians Foundation Specialist VISTA

Program Start/End Date

10/19/2026 - 10/18/2027

Work Schedule Full Time

Age Requirement

Minimum: 18 Maximum: None

Program Locations CALIFORNIA Los Angeles/Orange County

Accepting Applications

From 09/04/2026 To 09/25/2026

Contact Courtney Egenes

3101 S Grand Ave

Los Angeles CA 90007

3239742067

[email protected]

Listing ID 130850