Volunteer: IT Specialist: Help Solve The Literacy Crisis

FUNetix 12 Hour Reading App - Its FREE, Its EASY, Its FUN; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization dedicated to combating literacy issues seeks a dedicated volunteer IT Specialist. This role involves data management and backup tasks to help facilitate the FUNetix 12 Hour Reading App initiative. The ideal candidate is tech-savvy, organized, and eager to contribute to a significant cause.

Qualifications

• Volunteering experience is a plus.
• Confident working in a virtual environment.
• Knowledgeable about cloud storage solutions.

Responsibilities

• Assist in managing and backing up data stored in Google Shared Folders.
• Ensure critical information is secure, accessible, and well-maintained.

Skills

Data Integrity

Organizational Skills

Backup Procedures

Job description

Volunteer: IT Specialist: Help Solve The Literacy Crisis

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FUNetix is a patented, science-based, and incredibly simplified way of teaching reading to children that's available to parents and children anywhere in the United States and anywhere in the world. The FUNetix 12 hours Reading App is available in the App Store, Google Play store and Amazon App store.

FUNetix is 19-years-new, but in some ways, it is more than 2,000 years old.

Indeed, the patented FUNetix Reading Decoding System is rooted in an ancient methodology that shows readers how to see the hidden sounds in every word.

FUNetix earned its patent by borrowing the time-tested method called "diacritics" (which was developed more than 2,000 years ago by the Greeks, and adopted more than 1,000 years ago by the Hebrew and Arabic languages, to teach ALL children how to read those languages), and uniquely, completely and systematically applying it to English in a child-friendly and simple way.

FUNetix teaches children how to "map" or "marry" all 44 sounds of the English language to the letters and letter combinations that make up English words. This mapping (made easy by diacritics) takes all of the guesswork out of "sounding out" words.

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Have you ever wanted to do something AMAZING to change the world but didn't know where to start?

Here is an opportunity to join the American Youth Literacy Foundation, an all- volunteer 501 c 3 charitable non-profit organization, founded in 2008 and dedicated to providing a gateway to a future in which all children, in every classroom in America, learn how to read by the end of 3rd grade. Our mission is to save millions of children from a lifetime of illiteracy and bring about true education parity in just a few years’ time by deploying the FUNetix(r) 12 Hour Reading App(tm) nationwide.

With the FUNetix app, which is 100% free to download and use, any child can learn how to read in about 12 hours of total play time; and in America’s public schools today, there are millions of children who can’t read or are struggling to read, which has led to more than 20 million illiterate high school dropouts over the past 20 years. But it doesn’t have to be this way!

We started in 2008 by taking a groundbreaking, science-based curriculum and proving that it can scale to reach and help thousands of children. Then, in 2020, during the pandemic, we created an app, based on our now patented reading curriculum, that takes kids from the ABC's to a 2nd grade reading level through an amazing journey that's fully narrated and tastefully animated, and gamified, just enough, to create an immersive, interactive environment that captures kids' attention and imagination and launches them to literacy in a fun and easy way.

Our challenge now is to bring the app to millions of children who are not learning how to read in school, either because they are in schools that are failing or because they are in difficult situations at home for a variety of reasons.

Right now, we are looking to expand our incredible Team FUNetix and we are looking for a skilled IT Specialist.

We are seeking a dedicated and tech-savvy volunteer IT Specialist to assist in managing and backing up data stored in Google Shared Folders. This role is ideal for someone who is highly organized, skilled in various software applications, and knowledgeable about data integrity, backup procedures, and cloud storage solutions. The ideal candidate will help ensure our critical information is secure, accessible, and well-maintained.

We hope this opportunity finds you at the right place and the right time in your career to make a difference and an impact, in an amazing way, for millions of children who are waiting for someone, or something, to lead them out of a life of impoverishment and into a future of unlimited possibility and potential.

So, if you have volunteering experience, if you have the confidence and ability to work in a virtual environment using select networking and communications tools and platforms, and if this opportunity sounds like something that you have the time for and interest in, then please reply to this listing and tell us about yourself.

We look forward to hearing from you and speaking with you about the future of literacy in America.

You can read more about our story, and about our team, on our website at https //funetix.org/

Mr. R. Kali Woodward

Founding, Executive Director

This is a volunteer opportunity provided by VolunteerMatch, in partnership with LinkedIn for Good.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Civic and Social Organizations and Non-profit Organizations

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