Reading Interventionist, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

We Are Hiring

Alpha is hiring a Reading Specialist to join our team. This is a full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits.

About the Role

You will be responsible for running short structured-literacy workshops with two to four students, diagnosing phonics or decoding gaps from running records and fluency probes, and teaching a sequence you design for it. You will also coach students through app-based core learning, leading morning launch, life-skills workshops, and check-chart activities that keep six-year-olds moving. You will drive students to their weekly app goals with school currency, leaderboards, and gamification pitched at their age. You will stay with your students through lunch, recess, and closing, meeting refusal and frustration with a plan built for that particular child.

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

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
• 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

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Nightly lesson planning for a full class is not part of this role. 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
• Sitting on curriculum committees
• Handing your students off while you take a prep block. You are with them launch to closing

Benefits

The compensation level for this role is $100,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly.

Application

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