Reading Corps Coaching Specialist

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.

CYC began implementing Reading Corps in Colorado in 2017 to provide reading supports for kindergarten-third grade students. Colorado Reading Corps is an Ameri Corps 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.

The Reading Corps Coaching Specialist is responsible for assisting the Reading Corps Program Manager in fully integrating the Reading Corps Ameri Corps program into CYC’s culture and identity. The Coaching Specialist is responsible for working with the program manager on program reporting, ensuring CYC/Ameri Corps 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.

• Provide supervision and support to a caseload of assigned Ameri Corps 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.

• 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…