Learning Coach, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

About the role

The role involves guiding students through app-based core learning, diagnosing and closing reading gaps, leading morning launch, life-skills workshops, and check-chart activities.

Responsibilities

• Spotting who is stuck and asking the right questions to unblock them.
• Running short structured-literacy sessions with two to four students.
• Diagnosing phonics or decoding gaps from running records and fluency probes, teaching a sequence you designed, and checking for transfer.
• Leading morning launch, life-skills workshops, and check-chart activities that keep six-year-olds moving.
• Driving students to their weekly app goals with school currency, leaderboards, and gamification.
• Staying with your students through lunch, recess, and closing, meeting frustration and refusal with a plan for that child.

Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at a campus listed above, with relocation support.
• At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4-9: teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, children's theater, or similar settings where kids showed up because of you.
• At least 2 years of that experience teaching reading in grades K-3, within the last 5 years.
• Completed structured-literacy training: LETRS, IMSE, Orton-Gillingham, Wilson Reading System, Fundations, UFLI, CERI, Neuhaus, SIPPS, Really Great Reading, or similar; or a master's in reading or literacy.
• Bachelor's degree in any subject. A teaching certificate is not required.
• Comfortable spending about 90% of your day guiding students through app-based learning, workshops, and campus routines, and 10% on reading sessions.
• Willing to work with all K-3 students, not only struggling readers.
• Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• You held a six-year-old's attention with nothing but your energy and an engaging activity.
• You kept tired children coming back to an after-school reading program.
• Parents asked for you by name.
• You have experience with reading platforms (Amira, Lexia, i-Ready) or diagnostic assessments (DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb).
• You can name a child whose decoding you fixed and how.

Qualifications

• Basic requirements include a bachelor's degree in any subject, completed structured-literacy training, and at least 3 years of experience working directly with children ages 4-9, including at least 2 years of experience teaching reading in grades K-3.

Skills

• Ability to diagnose and close reading gaps.
• Experience with app-based learning and structured-literacy sessions.
• Leadership and mentoring skills.
• Strong communication and engagement skills with young children.

Benefits

Immediate access to benefits including paychex paid-only.

Pay

$120,000 USD/year.

Schedule

Full-time, on-site role, five days a week, at an Alpha campus.