United Readers Mentors

POSITION SUMMARY

United Readers Mentors will assist students, kindergarten through fifth grade, in Southern Nevada with literacy skills to improve fluency. Using a pre-determined curriculum and lesson plans, and in conjunction with the school's learning facilitators, mentors will conduct lessons and activities with small groups of students during reading intervention blocks. United Readers Mentors support United Way of Southern Nevada's goal to increase the number of students proficient in reading.

This position serves as an ambassador for the United Readers Program and overcoming the barriers students face in their learning gaps. The goal of United Readers is to provide students with literacy intervention to build their foundational reading skills, with the objective of improving third grade reading scores in Southern Nevada. United Readers supports UWSN's mission of providing learning opportunities for children and students from Pre-K through higher education.

United Readers empowers students by providing them with the fundamental tools they need to build long-term resilience and confidence to be a lifelong learner.

Applicants must be able to work from 7:30 am – 3:30 pm
, Monday through Friday
. This is a part-time position that provides work from the mid-September 2026 to the end of May 2027.

An individual must be able to perform each essential duty listed below:

• Lead groups of students in accordance with the provided curriculum, lesson plans, and training.
• Lead and develop age and content-appropriate activities based on child's assessed and identified needs.
• Provide a safe and respectful learning experience and space for children.
• Facilitate and score assessments.
• Review, analyze, and set goals for students according to assessment and other data.
• Submit data consistently by appropriate deadlines.
• Communicate with school site staff and UWSN program staff.
• Attend required training days and orientation sessions.
• Professionally represent and be an ambassador for UWSN in accordance with UWSN policies and procedures.

Minimum requirements include:

• Mission-Focused
• Strives to achieve shared goals
• Exhibits UWSN's core values in their daily work:
  Accountability, Collaboration, Integrity, Innovation and Diversity
• Collaborator
• Seeks and shares knowledge
• Takes a collaborative approach to address issues
• Focuses on shared goals
• Brand Steward
• Acts with integrity and strong ethics to foster trust at all levels (personal, market, societal)
• Internalizes the meaning and commitment of UWSN and consistently acts according to its value and purpose
• Is accountable and transparent with all stakeholders

• Mentors must have a high school diploma or equivalent.
• Candidates must be able to perform duties during the school day.
• Mentors should be interested in or have experience with education or a related field, a community and service mindset, and be willing to learn.
• Must have a desire to work with small children and be able to explain lessons and activities clearly and effectively.
• Position requires patience and collaboration with other mentors and staff as well as through Microsoft suite.
• Experience with young children and child development is encouraged but not required.
• Mentors will be informally observed monthly and formally evaluated mid-term and towards the end of the school year.
• Observations, accountability for timesheets and reporting requirements, participation in data analysis and goals setting, participation and performance in training days, and general position requirements will be evaluated.

• Basic computer skills and comfortable with Microsoft Office.
• The incumbent in this position may operate any/all of the following equipment: telephone, cell phone, fax machine, computer, printer and related equipment, copy machine, audio-visual equipment, calculator.
• Must have reliable transportation.
• Must have a valid, government-issued photo .

United Readers Mentors work on site at school locations. This position reports daily, in person to a designated school site; this will be further…