K-3 App-Based Reading Coach (On-Site)

Crossover; San Rafael (CA); On-site; USD 89,000 - 121,000; Full time

Job summary

Alpha is seeking a Youth Development Coach to guide K-3 students through app-based core learning on a full-time, on-site basis. You will diagnose gaps, design targeted sequences, and track progress to close literacy gaps across lunch and classroom routines.

You will lead short, structured literacy sessions, maintain daily goals, and support students with resilience and effective learning strategies in a dynamic campus setting.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4-9 in settings where your presence was the draw — teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, children's theater, or similar
• 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
• Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship

Responsibilities

• Coaching students through app-based core learning: spotting who is stuck, asking the question that unblocks them, holding the daily goal.
• Running short structured-literacy sessions with two to four students. Diagnosing a phonics or decoding gap from running records and fluency probes, teaching a sequence you designed, and checking for transfer.
• 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.
• Staying with your students through lunch, recess, and closing, meeting frustration and refusal with a plan for that child.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Structured-literacy training or master's in reading or literacy

Job description

Alpha is seeking a Youth Development Coach to guide K-3 students through app-based core learning on a full-time, on-site basis. You will diagnose gaps, design targeted sequences, and track progress to close literacy gaps across lunch and classroom routines.

You will lead short, structured literacy sessions, maintain daily goals, and support students with resilience and effective learning strategies in a dynamic campus setting.