Reading Corps Coaching Specialist

Colorado Nonprofit Association; Greeley (CO); On-site; USD 28,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Colorado Youth for a Change is seeking a Reading Corps Coaching Specialist based in Greeley. The role supports the Reading Corps AmeriCorps program, collaborates with a program manager, and ensures the model is implemented across partner schools in Weld County.

The position requires travel to school sites, regular supervision of tutors, and coordination of trainings. It is a full-time role with an hourly rate of $24.48 and benefits.

Qualifications

• Two years of experience working with elementary school aged youth.
• Two years of literacy experience.
• Experience supervising and facilitating preferred.
• Experience with AmeriCorps programs preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide supervision and support to a caseload of AmeriCorps tutors and schools.
• Conduct bi-monthly supervision meetings with each tutor on caseload.
• Ensure fidelity of Reading Corps model and data entry compliance.
• Review and approve tutor timesheets weekly.
• Develop and facilitate trainings for tutors.
• Support school/site recruitment and onboarding of tutors.

Skills

Tutor supervision

Data review

Program coordination

Training development

Communication

Microsoft Word

Excel

Tools

Microsoft Word

Excel

Job description

ORGANIZATIONAL SUMMARY

Colorado Youth for a Change (CYC) is an educational nonprofit organization with a statewide scope. CYC addresses barriers to learning by providing individualized support throughout pivotal stages of students’ education journeys. We provide a continuum of services from kindergarten through high school to help students find success through tutoring, case management, and outreach to help in-school youth remain in school or out-of-school youth return to school. We envision an equitable education system where each student has access to resources they need to maximize their own learning and growth. CYC’s organizational values are growth, integrity, community, and systemic transformation.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

CYC began implementing Reading Corps in Colorado in 2017 to provide reading supports for kindergarten-third grade students. Colorado Reading Corps is an AmeriCorps program with the mission of ensuring that all students in Colorado are reading proficiently by the end of third grade. The Reading Corps program combines the power of national service with literacy science to deliver proven approaches that help struggling learners transform into confident students – something that translates into all areas of their lives. The program is a licensed replication of a national, evidence-based model.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Reading Corps Coaching Specialist is responsible for assisting the Reading Corps Program Manager in fully integrating the Reading Corps AmeriCorps program into CYC’s culture and identity. The Coaching Specialist is responsible for working with the program manager on program reporting, ensuring CYC/AmeriCorps mission alignment, supporting the successful implementation of the Reading Corps model within a caseload of assigned school partners, coordinating and facilitating monthly tutor trainings and orientation, and providing twice monthly supervision to tutors. This position requires traveling to different school sites across the Weld County area to meet with tutors and school staff. This position is full-time, Greeley-based, with an hourly rate of $24.48 and includes benefits.

Essential Functions

Tutor Support

• Provide supervision and support to a caseload of assigned AmeriCorps tutors and schools.
• Conduct supervision meetings twice per month with each tutor on caseload. One of these supervisions includes an in-person data review meeting with school staff.
• Ensure that tutors implement the Reading Corps model with fidelity, this includes benchmark assessments, assessment reliability checks, selection of students, scheduling, observations, and data management.
• Ensure tutors are held accountable with program expectations and with data entry; enact accountability measures as needed (restorative conversations, performance improvement plans, etc.).
• Complete mid-and end-of-year evaluations for tutors and support goal progress throughout the year.
• Be main point of contact for caseload of tutors and problem solve tutor challenges and needs.
• Review, correct, and approve tutor timesheets every week to ensure compliance.
• Develop and facilitate trainings for tutors throughout the year.

Program Support

• Support completion of Reading Corps program goals.
• Build strong and sustainable partnerships with the service sites (schools) in which tutors are serving.
• Communicate with school staff including tutors’ on-site supervisors, school administration and teachers as needed to provide support to tutor and their students.
• Facilitate restorative meetings with site supervisors, tutors, school administration, the Reading Corps Program Manager, etc. when conflict arises.
• Assist program staff and recruitment team with managing school/site recruitment, tutor recruitment, school/site placement, and tutor onboarding.
• Provide regular feedback and participate in calls/meetings/trainings with state and national level program partners as necessary.
• Work collaboratively with other coaching specialists, program managers, site supervisors, school and CYC staff to provide cohesive services among the programs.
• With the assistance of Human Resources and CYC leadership, carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws.

Commitment to Organization Culture and Values

• Commit to operate within a framework that centers CYC’s organizational values of growth, integrity, community and systemic transformation.
• Contribute to an inclusive and equitable work environment and provide inclusive and equitable services to the community. This includes demonstrating:
  • A commitment to learn and engage in anti-oppression trainings and conversations; including a willingness to unpack personal biases and identities.
  • The ability to put anti-oppression framework into practice within specific role at CYC; including a willingness to interrupt systems of oppression to create more equitable, inclusive environments for staff, AmeriCorps tutors, and students.
  • The ability to cultivate inclusive and equitable relationships with students, staff, AmeriCorps tutors, and community members with varied identities and life experiences.
  • A desire to share the organizational responsibility of creating an environment that supports anti-oppression accountability.

Other Duties

• Attend and participate in staff meetings and trainings.
• Speak on behalf of the organization when appropriate.
• Attend relevant community and school meetings and events.
• Run errands as needed using personal transportation.
• Perform other duties, responsibilities and special projects as assigned.
• Support CYC fundraising and storytelling efforts when applicable.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to learn and implement Reading Corps model.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Work independently and remain organized in multiple settings.
• Experience with and dedication to engage students, AmeriCorps tutors, and staff across social identities and life experiences.
• Computer skills in Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Work collaboratively with internal staff and external partners.
• Contribute to a positive morale.
• A passionate and committed belief that students deserve access to quality education resources and support.
• Appreciation of clear and appropriate boundaries with youth, AmeriCorps tutors, and staff.
• Dependable transportation and being insurable as a driver on the auto liability policy of Colorado Youth for a Change.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of two years of experience working with elementary school aged youth.
• Minimum of two years of literacy experience.
• Supervision and facilitation experience preferred.
• Experience working with AmeriCorps programs preferred.

Applications will be accepted through 12:00 pm on September 30th.