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

About the Role

As a Reading Specialist at Alpha, you will facilitate brief structured-literacy sessions, support students during app-based core instruction, conduct morning launch routines, life-skills workshops, and check-chart procedures, and motivate students toward weekly application goals. You will remain with your assigned students throughout the day, responding to resistance and emotional difficulty with individualized intervention strategies.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating brief structured-literacy sessions with small groups of 2-4 students, identifying phonics or decoding deficits, delivering targeted instruction, and verifying skill transfer
• Supporting students during app-based core instruction, identifying stalled progress, and facilitating problem-solving
• Conducting morning launch routines, life-skills workshops, and check-chart procedures
• Motivating students using school incentive systems, leaderboards, and gamification strategies
• Remaining with assigned students from morning through lunch, recess, and dismissal, providing individualized interventions

Requirements

• Available to work on-site at one of the specified campuses (relocation assistance provided)
• Minimum 3 years of experience with children ages 4-9 in relevant environments
• Minimum 2 years of experience teaching reading to grades K-3 within the past 5 years
• Completed formal structured-literacy certification or hold a master's degree in reading/literacy
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline (state teaching certification not required)
• Prepared to allocate 90% of time to guiding students and 10% to reading intervention
• Authorized for employment in the United States without visa sponsorship

Qualifications

• Ability to maintain engagement in a room of young children using presence and well-designed activities
• Familiarity with digital reading platforms or diagnostic instruments (preferred)
• Successful remediation of a student's decoding skills (preferred)
• Background in alternative educational models (preferred)

About Alpha

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for real-world skills. We offer roles with real student impact, six-figure compensation, and a culture built for ambitious, student-focused builders.

Pay

$100,000 annual salary, paid weekly.

Schedule

Full-time, 40 hours per week across five days, on-site at a single Alpha campus.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision coverage from day one
• Relocation assistance available

Current locations: AZ - Phoenix; OK - Oklahoma City and Tulsa; TX - Dallas, Fort Worth (Keller), Plano, and The Woodlands; UT - Park City (Salt Lake City).