Literacy Specialist, Alpha - $100,000/year USD
for section headings (section headings) like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must include sections only when posting has real, specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. Remove boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions. Preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the posting.
Key info:
- Quote: "I got my time back, and I still get to be passionate and work with students." — Christie, former school principal, now Alpha Reading Specialist
- Alpha is hiring. $100,000/year salaried, paid weekly, with day-one health, dental, and vision benefits
- 40 hours/week, five days a week, on-site at one Alpha campus, with relocation support
- Description of role: diagnosing gaps, short workshops, coaching, etc.
- Responsibilities: Running short structured-literacy workshops with two to four students — diagnosing a phonics or decoding gap from running records and fluency probes, teaching a sequence you designed for it, and checking that it transferred; Coaching students through app-based core learning: seeing who has stalled, asking the question that unsticks them, holding the daily goal; 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 pitched at their age; Staying with your students through lunch, recess, and closing, meeting refusal and frustration with a plan built for that particular child
- What You Won’t Be Doing: list items.
- Role: We recruit nationally, so job boards may display this role in nearby cities that do not have a campus. Current openings: AZ - Phoenix and Scottsdale TX - Dallas, Fort Worth (Keller), Plano, and The Woodlands UT - Park City (Salt Lake City) Interested in a different Alpha campus? Apply anyway, name your preferred location, and we will route you to the right opening.
- Basic Requirements: Willing to work on-site at one of the campuses 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 can keep a room of six-year-olds engaged with nothing but your energy and a good activity; Tired children kept coming back to your after-school or summer program; Experience with reading platforms (Amira, Lexia, i-Ready) or diagnostic assessments (DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb); You can name a specific child whose decoding you fixed, and say how you did it; You have worked in a non-traditional school model: charter, micro-school, Montessori, or hybrid
- About Alpha: description.
- Working with us: full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits; All roles are year-long positions. The compensation level for this role is $100,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly. Crossover Job Code: LJ-4849-US-Phoenix-LiteracySpecia.029 (should be omitted as minor metadata).
We need to produce sections: maybe About the role (description), Responsibilities, Requirements (maybe combine Basic Requirements and Nice-to-have? but we can separate Qualifications? The instruction says use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to include only sections with real content.
We have:
- About the role: we have description of Alpha, role description, quote, etc. Could be "About the role". We'll include that.
- Responsibilities: we have "What You Will Be Doing" list and also "What You Won’t Be Doing". Could combine under Responsibilities.
- Requirements: we have Basic Requirements and Nice-to-have Requirements. Could be "Requirements" (maybe separate "Qualifications"? but we can just use Requirements heading and list both basic and nice-to-have as subpoints? The instruction says use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can have a list under Requirements.
- Benefits: we have day-one health, dental, vision benefits, immediate access to benefits, relocation support. Also maybe "All roles are year-long positions." That's not a benefit but could be included. We'll include Benefits section.
- Pay: we have $100,000/year salaried, paid weekly. So Pay section.
- Schedule: we have 40 hours/week, five days a week, on-site. So Schedule section.
- Skills: maybe we could include specific skills like structured-literacy training, etc. But we already have them in Requirements. Could still have Skills but maybe not needed. The instruction says prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we might omit Skills if content overlaps.
We must not include headings with filler like "commensurate with experience". Not relevant.
We must not include application instructions like "Hit the Apply button". Remove.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO, legal, etc. Not present.
We must not duplicate lines.
We must preserve all substantive info.
Let's craft HTML:
About the role
...
Then Responsibilities
- ...
...
Then Requirements
- ...
...
Then Benefits
- ...
...
Then Pay
$100,000 USD per year, paid weekly.
Then Schedule
40 hours per week, five days a week, on‑site at an Alpha campus.
We need to include relocation support maybe under Benefits or Schedule? It's a benefit. We'll include under Benefits.
Also "day-one health, dental, and vision benefits". Also "immediate access to benefits". Also "All roles are year-long positions." Could be under Benefits.
Now we need to ensure we don't repeat info.
Let's extract details:
Quote: Could be included in About the role.
About the role content: The quote, description of Alpha's model, what the role entails generally. We'll paraphrase but must preserve all substantive info; we cannot invent or summarize away detail. We need to keep the substance but can rephrase? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." That suggests we should not omit details, but we can rephrase? Usually they want to keep the info but not add or remove. We can keep sentences as is, maybe break into paragraphs.
We'll include the quote as a with attribution.
Then description: "Alpha is hiring. $100,000/year salaried, paid weekly, with day-one health, dental, and vision benefits 40 hours/week, five days a week, on-site at one Alpha campus, with relocation support You can hear a miscue and name the gap behind it: the vowel team she never locked in, the blend he guesses his way around. You will use that here every day. What's harder is the moment right after. When a six-year-old is stuck in front of you, close to tears, and the right move is almost never to hand them the answer. That's because Alpha looks nothing like the school you trained in. Students finish their entire academic core in about two hours each morning, working independently on AI-adaptive apps — no lectures, no textbooks, no pacing guide. The rest of the day is spent on life-skills workshops. The adults here are called Guides rather than teachers, and that is not a euphemism: you are not delivering content. You are making sure your students actually do the work, want to do the work, and get unstuck when the app can't do it for them. You are with the same students from morning launch to closing: core learning, workshops, lunch, recess, check-chart time. That much contact tells you things a running record won't. By the second week, you will know which student is faking fluency – reading the page smoothly because she memorized it Monday, not because she can decode it. When you find the gap, nothing stands between you and fixing it. No referral, no committee, no waiting for a slot to open. You pull two to four kids and run a fifteen-minute workshop built for that exact error pattern — phoneme-grapheme mapping, blending drills, decodable text, whatever it calls for — check that it transferred, and send them back to work on their own. You are not writing plans for two dozen children at 11 pm at night. Your planning is narrow and diagnostic: who needs you tomorrow, and what will actually move them. And you hold the daily goal without quietly lowering it, because parents see weekly data and will ask you to name the gap. Alpha is opening campuses across the country, and the bottleneck is people who can do this well. The ones who prove it help hire and train the Guides who come next and write the programs other campuses run on. Some move into a lead role coaching a team, where the judgment behind the literacy work becomes the whole job. That path is earned, not handed to you on day one. Your resume will not decide this. If what makes you good at this has never fit neatly on paper, that is exactly the point."
That's a lot. We'll keep as paragraphs.
Then Responsibilities: list from "What You Will Be Doing" and maybe also "What You Won’t Be Doing" as separate bullet points under Responsibilities? Could be separate but still under Responsibilities heading.
Let's extract What You Will Be Doing bullets:
- Running short structured-literacy workshops with two to four students — diagnosing a phonics or decoding gap from running records and fluency probes, teaching a sequence you designed for it, and checking that it transferred
- Coaching students through app-based core learning: seeing who has stalled, asking the question that unsticks them, holding the daily goal
- 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 pitched at their age
- Staying with your students through lunch, recess, and closing, meeting refusal and frustration with a plan built for that particular child
What You Won’t Be Doing:
- This role does not ask you to plan lessons for a full class every night. Your planning is narrow and diagnostic
- Running a pull-out caseload from a quiet intervention room. Reading groups are roughly a tenth of your week and happen inside the day, not beside it
- Delivering a published program with fidelity to someone else's scope and sequence
- Writing IEPs and 504 plans, chasing testing paperwork, or sitting on curriculum committees
- Handing your students off while you take a prep block. You are with them launch to closing
We'll include these as bullet points under Responsibilities (maybe separate subheading? but we can just list all).
Now Requirements: Basic Requirements list:
- Willing to work on-site at one of the campuses listed above, with relocation
About the role
...
ThenResponsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements
- ... ...
Benefits
- ... ...
Pay
$100,000 USD per year, paid weekly.
ThenSchedule
40 hours per week, five days a week, on‑site at an Alpha campus.
We need to include relocation support maybe under Benefits or Schedule? It's a benefit. We'll include under Benefits. Also "day-one health, dental, and vision benefits". Also "immediate access to benefits". Also "All roles are year-long positions." Could be under Benefits. Now we need to ensure we don't repeat info. Let's extract details: Quote: Could be included in About the role. About the role content: The quote, description of Alpha's model, what the role entails generally. We'll paraphrase but must preserve all substantive info; we cannot invent or summarize away detail. We need to keep the substance but can rephrase? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." That suggests we should not omit details, but we can rephrase? Usually they want to keep the info but not add or remove. We can keep sentences as is, maybe break into paragraphs. We'll include the quote as awith attribution. Then description: "Alpha is hiring. $100,000/year salaried, paid weekly, with day-one health, dental, and vision benefits 40 hours/week, five days a week, on-site at one Alpha campus, with relocation support You can hear a miscue and name the gap behind it: the vowel team she never locked in, the blend he guesses his way around. You will use that here every day. What's harder is the moment right after. When a six-year-old is stuck in front of you, close to tears, and the right move is almost never to hand them the answer. That's because Alpha looks nothing like the school you trained in. Students finish their entire academic core in about two hours each morning, working independently on AI-adaptive apps — no lectures, no textbooks, no pacing guide. The rest of the day is spent on life-skills workshops. The adults here are called Guides rather than teachers, and that is not a euphemism: you are not delivering content. You are making sure your students actually do the work, want to do the work, and get unstuck when the app can't do it for them. You are with the same students from morning launch to closing: core learning, workshops, lunch, recess, check-chart time. That much contact tells you things a running record won't. By the second week, you will know which student is faking fluency – reading the page smoothly because she memorized it Monday, not because she can decode it. When you find the gap, nothing stands between you and fixing it. No referral, no committee, no waiting for a slot to open. You pull two to four kids and run a fifteen-minute workshop built for that exact error pattern — phoneme-grapheme mapping, blending drills, decodable text, whatever it calls for — check that it transferred, and send them back to work on their own. You are not writing plans for two dozen children at 11 pm at night. Your planning is narrow and diagnostic: who needs you tomorrow, and what will actually move them. And you hold the daily goal without quietly lowering it, because parents see weekly data and will ask you to name the gap. Alpha is opening campuses across the country, and the bottleneck is people who can do this well. The ones who prove it help hire and train the Guides who come next and write the programs other campuses run on. Some move into a lead role coaching a team, where the judgment behind the literacy work becomes the whole job. That path is earned, not handed to you on day one. Your resume will not decide this. If what makes you good at this has never fit neatly on paper, that is exactly the point." That's a lot. We'll keep as paragraphs. Then Responsibilities: list from "What You Will Be Doing" and maybe also "What You Won’t Be Doing" as separate bullet points under Responsibilities? Could be separate but still under Responsibilities heading. Let's extract What You Will Be Doing bullets: - Running short structured-literacy workshops with two to four students — diagnosing a phonics or decoding gap from running records and fluency probes, teaching a sequence you designed for it, and checking that it transferred - Coaching students through app-based core learning: seeing who has stalled, asking the question that unsticks them, holding the daily goal - 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 pitched at their age - Staying with your students through lunch, recess, and closing, meeting refusal and frustration with a plan built for that particular child What You Won’t Be Doing: - This role does not ask you to plan lessons for a full class every night. Your planning is narrow and diagnostic - Running a pull-out caseload from a quiet intervention room. Reading groups are roughly a tenth of your week and happen inside the day, not beside it - Delivering a published program with fidelity to someone else's scope and sequence - Writing IEPs and 504 plans, chasing testing paperwork, or sitting on curriculum committees - Handing your students off while you take a prep block. You are with them launch to closing We'll include these as bullet points under Responsibilities (maybe separate subheading? but we can just list all). Now Requirements: Basic Requirements list: - Willing to work on-site at one of the campuses listed above, with relocation