Reading Specialist, 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 diagnose phonics or decoding gaps from running records and fluency probes, teach a sequence you designed for it, and check that it transferred. 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.

Responsibilities

• Running short structured-literacy workshops with two to four students
• Coaching students through app-based core learning
• Leading morning launch, life-skills workshops, and check-chart activities
• Driving students to their weekly app goals
• Staying with your students through lunch, recess, and closing

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

• The pull-out intervention room and the quiet caseload that goes with it are not part of this role
• 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
• Planning lessons for a full class every night. Your planning is narrow and diagnostic
• Handing your students off while you take a prep block. You are with them launch to closing
• 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
• Planning lessons for a full class every night. Your planning is narrow and diagnostic
• Handing your students off while you take a prep block. You are with them launch to closing
• Reading groups are roughly a tenth of your week and happen inside the day, not beside it