Literacy Coordinator $100,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- $100,000 annual salary, distributed weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
- Full-time on-site position at an Alpha campus location: Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, Fort Worth, Houston (South Houston or The Woodlands), or Plano, TX; Park City (Salt Lake City), UT; or Dorado, Puerto Rico (relocation assistance available)
- 40-hour work week, entirely classroom-based with kindergarten through second-grade students
You've dedicated years to structured literacy mastery. Whether Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction, you can identify a student's miscue and pinpoint the exact phonemic weakness to address. You can construct a phonics lesson from scratch without relying on scripted materials. That's baseline. It's not what sets you apart.
What sets you apart is that six-year-olds are excited when you enter the room. At Alpha, this position is fundamentally a Guide role: a dynamic, engaging presence that children enjoy learning from. Your structured-literacy credentials open the door; your capacity to captivate a K-2 classroom for a 20-minute session is what secures the position. If "dynamic, engaging presence" doesn't reflect who you are, this role isn't the right fit.
Alpha has redesigned traditional instruction from the ground up. Students progress through academic content independently via AI-adaptive applications — no lectures, textbooks, or pacing calendars. Your position represents the irreplaceable human element. You create small-group reading sessions informed by live student performance metrics, and you facilitate motivation activities that ensure 100% of students reach their weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification).
Your initial months focus on winning the room. Sessions must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective. Student satisfaction metrics and "love your Guide" feedback (targeting 90%+) provide direct measurement. Once you establish this foundation, your responsibilities expand: analyzing AI-generated performance insights to refine subsequent instruction, communicating fluency improvements and decoding progress to families, and influencing how Alpha's K-2 literacy model develops alongside adaptive technology. As Alpha opens additional campuses, your work becomes the blueprint for reading instruction across the network.
Before hiring, you'll submit a brief video presenting an engaging narrative for young children, and you'll complete a full day on campus working directly with K-2 students. Low energy with children will disqualify candidacy, regardless of credential strength. This is intentional. Apply today.
What you will be doing
- Creating and facilitating small-group K-2 literacy sessions rooted in structured-literacy approaches (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent), informed by live student performance data
- Conducting daily motivation activities that ensure 100% of students achieve their weekly adaptive-app targets, utilizing Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
- Delivering and evaluating running records, fluency assessments, and decoding diagnostics to monitor progress and refine upcoming instruction
- Analyzing AI-generated performance insights from Alpha's adaptive learning platforms to differentiate instruction dynamically, not only during preparation
- Serving as the approachable, energetic adult your K-2 students are excited to engage with daily
What you will NOT be doing
- Implementing a published reading curriculum, scripted instructional program, or district pacing calendar; you create lessons directly from student performance data
- Delivering whole-class lectures; all instruction occurs in targeted, small-group formats while students complete academic subjects through adaptive applications
- Serving as a reading consultant, instructional coach for other educators, or district-level specialist; you work in the classroom with students every day
- Managing a traditional classroom schedule — subject-by-subject lectures, homework correction, test preparation; your time is allocated to workshops, motivation activities, and data-informed small groups
- Grading assignments or producing report cards; student advancement is tracked through app analytics and your assessment records
Key responsibilities
Provide structured-literacy instruction that produces measurable acceleration in K-2 reading performance across phonics, fluency, and decoding domains.
Candidate requirements
- Structured-literacy certification (Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson Reading System, IMSE, CERI, Neuhaus, UFLI, or equivalent) OR Master's degree in reading instruction
- Bachelor's degree in any discipline, plus 2+ years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical environment, utilizing systematic phonics or structured literacy
- Proven capacity to independently design reading lessons and clearly explain instructional content and methodology, without dependence on a published program
- Availability to work in person full-time at one Alpha campus: Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, Fort Worth, Houston (South Houston or The Woodlands), or Plano, TX; Park City (Salt Lake City), UT; or Dorado, Puerto Rico (relocation assistance available)
- Readiness to work with all K-2 students (not exclusively struggling readers) and to incorporate AI and adaptive-learning platforms into daily instruction
- Legal authorization to work in the United States or Puerto Rico without requiring visa sponsorship
- Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish required for the Dorado, Puerto Rico campus
Nice to have
- Direct experience with AI-powered or adaptive literacy platforms (e.g., Amira, Lexia, i-Ready, Reading Plus) for instructional planning or student data interpretation
- Documented reading performance outcomes (fluency gains measured in WCPM, accuracy improvements, decoding level progression) you can quantify
- Experience in non-traditional or innovative educational settings (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid)
- Experience in performance, youth sports coaching, or other contexts involving engaging K-2 audiences outside formal reading instruction
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