Literacy Program Coordinator, Alpha - $120,000​/year USD

• $120,000 annual salary paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision benefits starting day one
• Full-time on-site at a single Alpha campus:
  Beverly Hills, La Jolla (San Diego), Malibu, Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, or Santa Monica, CA;
  Greenwich, CT;
  Boston, MA;
  New York City, NY; or Seattle, WA (relocation assistance available)
• 40 hours per week, 100% classroom-based with students in grades K-3

Your structured-literacy credential—Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction—has opened the door to every K-3 reading role you've pursued. In most positions, that credential also marked the ceiling: you executed a pre-designed program and submitted reports. Here, the credential is merely the entry point. If that difference resonates, continue reading.

Alpha has dismantled conventional instruction. Students advance through academic content independently via AI-adaptive applications. There are no lectures, no textbooks, and no pacing calendars. Your function is the one domain where human expertise cannot be replaced. You create 20-minute small-group workshops using real-time app analytics; brevity is intentional, because targeted instruction outperforms duration. You also facilitate motivation sessions that ensure 100% of your students meet their weekly app targets through Alpha's motivational framework (campus currency, leaderboards, developmentally appropriate gamification).

You detect a miscue during a session, identify the underlying phonemic deficit, and revise the next day's workshop before leaving campus. This is the expectation.

Families selecting these campuses have prioritized Alpha for performance outcomes, not merely enrollment. Parents receive weekly data on their child's literacy progress, and they engage actively. You will field specific questions about individual student advancement, and vague reassurances will not suffice. You must reference the running record, name the phonemic weakness, and describe your instructional response. This level of accountability should energize you, not exhaust you.

Your initial months focus on establishing credibility in the classroom. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective; student satisfaction and "love your Guide" surveys (target 90%+) provide direct feedback. As you establish your effectiveness, your influence expands beyond your classroom: strategies that succeed with your students inform instructional models adopted across other Alpha campuses, and your diagnostic precision shapes reading instruction as Alpha scales.

Your work extends well beyond your immediate environment.

Before an offer is extended, you will submit a short video in which you tell an engaging story for young children, and you will spend a full day on campus working directly with K-3 students. Low energy with children will disqualify candidacy, regardless of credentials. This is intentional.

• Creating small-group K-3 reading workshops from live adaptive-app data, anchored in structured-literacy approaches (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent)
• Leading daily motivation sessions that drive 100% of your students toward their weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
• Analyzing AI-generated performance metrics (fluency trajectories, decoding precision, comprehension indicators) to modify instruction mid-day, not solely during advance planning
• Conducting running records, fluency probes, and decoding assessments to generate progress visible in weekly campus data reviews
• Serving as the engaging, dynamic adult your K-3 students are excited to see every day

• Implementing a published reading curriculum, scripted program, or district pacing guide; you create lessons directly from student data
• Delivering lectures to a full classroom; all instruction occurs in small, targeted groups while students complete academic subjects through adaptive apps
• Serving as a reading consultant, instructional coach to other teachers, or district-level specialist; you work in the classroom with students daily
• Managing a traditional classroom schedule: subject-by-subject lectures, homework review, test preparation. Your scheduled time consists of workshops, motivation sessions, and data-informed small groups
• Drafting IEPs, 504 plans, or formal diagnostic reports; student progress is documented in app data and your running records, not in special-education documentation

Generate measurable K-3 reading progress across phonics, fluency, and comprehension within a campus environment where outcomes are assessed weekly.

• Structured-literacy certification (Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson Reading System, IMSE, CERI, Neuhaus, UFLI, or equivalent) OR a Master's degree in reading instruction
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline, plus 2+ years of full-time K-3 structured reading…