Community Manager

REMOTE / FULL-TIME

APPROX HIRE DATE: Spring 2024

About Amira Learning:

We believe every child deserves the chance to become a reader. We seek to help more students learn how to read than any other company in the world. Amira is a rapidly growing and renowned AI startup that was recently named by Business Insider as one of 30 startups to bet your career on. The company is the only education company in the Forbes Top 50 AI Companies, was a Time Magazine Best Invention of 2021, has been featured in the NY Times, selected as the “Future of Education” by the Wall Street Journal, won dozens of awards for software excellence, and has exploded into schools across the country.

Amira is the first, most widely used, and more effective AI-powered reading tutor. Amira is able to listen to young children read out loud, assess their mastery and deliver 1:1 personalized tutoring. Amira is a breakthrough innovation having a real impact on kids’ lives and societal equity. In independent testing done by State Education Agencies, Amira is the only edtech for reading that has proven effective. It is in use in schools in all 50 states and across 16 countries.

About this role:

.Amira is seeking a community manager to engage and support Amira’s growing community of educators. Amira’s mission is to give every child the opportunity to become a masterful reader. The Community Manager will ensure that teachers are equipped with the right resources and professional development to support accelerated reading growth for students reading with Amira.

You will work with the rest of the Amira organization to set up ways to build and sustain educator engagement.

Who You Are:

• Experienced with literacy instruction/have teaching experience
• Experienced in creating instructional resources and engaging professional development
• Highly collaborative and responsive with internal and external stakeholders
• Clear and impactful communicator, including the ability to listen for understanding and customize materials for different audiences
• Able to develop metrics for engagement success
• Proven ability to manage a complex program and drive delivery
• Understanding of the needs of teachers and educators around reading content and resources
• Able to facilitate engaging professional development sessions
• Have designed and delivered learning content across multiple platforms
• Have created automated and scalable email and social campaigns
• Open to collaborative feedback
• Bilingual (Spanish)

What You’ll Do:

• Ensure that student who have access to Amira are able to read successfully because their teachers and schools have the supports they need
• Build out our Certified Educator and Champion programs
• Develop and execute engagement campaigns to drive engagement
• Constantly review user metrics, using data to adjust and improve efficacy
• Collaborate with the Director of Learning Design to build learning pathways for all Amira’s educators
• Create and edit instructional content
• Plan and facilitate regular meetings and professional development for educators

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, and/or relevant experience, preferably in the Education SaaS industry
• Ability to operate in a highly efficient manner by multitasking in a fast-paced, goal-oriented environment.
• Exceptional organizational, analytical, and detail-oriented thinking skills.
• Proven track record of meeting/exceeding goals and targets.
• Great interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
• Experience working across remote teams.

Amira’s Culture

• Flexibility – We encourage and support you to live and work where you desire. Amira works as a truly distributed team. We worked remotely before COVID and we’ll be working remotely after the pandemic is long gone. Our office is Slack. Our coffee room is Zoom. Our team works hard but we work when we want, where we want.
• Collaboration – We work together closely, using collaborative tools and periodic face to face get togethers. We believe great software is like movie-making. Lots of talented people with very different skills have to band together to build a great experience.
• Lean & Agile -- We believe in ownership and continuous feedback. Yes, we employ Scrum ceremonies. But, what we’re really after is using data and learning to be better and to do better for our teachers, students, and players.
• Mission-Driven – What’s important to us is helping kids. We’re about tangible, measured impact.

Amira Learning is proud to celebrate diversity and is committed to building an inclusive workplace regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, age, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.

At Amira, we believe every child deserves the chance to become a reader. Join us to make that happen.