Literacy Program Coordinator, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

• $100,000 annual salary paid weekly, health/dental/vision coverage begins day one
• Full-time on-site position at an Alpha campus in Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Fort Worth (Keller), Dallas, Plano, or The Woodlands, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT—relocation assistance available
• 40-hour workweek spent entirely in the classroom with K-2 learners
  
  

You have deep training in structured literacy. Orton-Gillingham. LETRS. Wilson. IMSE. Or a Master's focused on reading. You listen to a miscue and pinpoint the phonemic weakness. You build phonics lessons without a script. That expertise is your baseline, not your differentiator.

What sets you apart is your presence with young children. At Alpha, the role of Guide comes first: you are a magnetic, high-energy figure whom six-year-olds are excited to work with. Your structured-literacy training opens the door; your capacity to hold K-2 students engaged for a 20-minute workshop determines whether you are hired. If "magnetic, high-energy" does not capture who you are, this position is not a fit.

Alpha has dismantled conventional instruction. Students advance through academic content independently on AI-adaptive platforms—no lectures, no textbooks, no district calendars. Your position represents the one irreplaceable human touchpoint. You create small-group reading workshops informed by live student performance data, and you facilitate motivation sessions that ensure 100% of students reach their weekly app targets, leveraging Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate game mechanics).

Your initial months center on building rapport. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective. Student satisfaction metrics and "love your Guide" survey results (goal: 90% ) track that directly. Once you establish credibility, your influence expands: reading AI-generated performance analytics to refine upcoming instruction, communicating fluency gains and decoding progress to families, and helping shape Alpha's evolving K-2 literacy strategy alongside adaptive technology. As Alpha opens additional campuses, the systems you develop become the blueprint for reading instruction across the organization.

Prior to hiring, you will submit a brief video of yourself delivering an engaging story for young children, and you will complete a full-day campus visit working directly with K-2 students. Low energy with children disqualifies strong credentials. That is intentional. Submit your application now.

What You Will Be Doing

• Creating and facilitating small-group K-2 reading workshops rooted in structured-literacy principles (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or comparable), informed by live student data
• Running daily motivation sessions that ensure every student meets their weekly adaptive-app targets, applying Alpha's motivational system (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate game elements)
• Conducting and interpreting running records, fluency assessments, and decoding evaluations to monitor progress and refine instruction for each session
• Analyzing AI-generated performance data from Alpha's adaptive platforms to differentiate instruction dynamically, not only during advance preparation
• Serving as the approachable, energetic adult presence your K-2 students are excited to see daily
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Implementing a packaged reading curriculum, scripted lesson sequence, or district timeline; you build lessons directly from student performance data
• Delivering whole-class lectures; instruction occurs in targeted small groups while students engage with adaptive apps for core academic subjects
• Serving as a reading consultant, teacher coach, or district administrator; you work in the classroom with children daily
• Managing a conventional classroom schedule—subject-by-subject lectures, homework correction, test preparation; your time is devoted to workshops, motivation sessions, and data-informed small-group instruction
• Assigning grades or completing report cards; progress tracking relies on app analytics and your assessment records
  
  

Literacy Program Coordinator Key Responsibilities

Provide structured-literacy instruction that produces measurable acceleration in K-2 reading outcomes across phonics, fluency, and decoding.

Basic Requirements

• Certification in structured literacy (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 a minimum of 2 years' full-time experience delivering K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical environment, utilizing systematic phonics or structured literacy
• Proven ability to independently design reading lessons and clearly explain your instructional content and methods, without dependence on a published program
• Availability to work on-site full-time at one Alpha campus: Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Fort Worth (Keller), Dallas, Plano, or The Woodlands, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation assistance provided)
• Willingness to teach all K-2 students (not exclusively struggling readers) and to incorporate AI and adaptive-learning technologies into everyday instruction
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Direct experience using AI-powered or adaptive reading tools (e.g., Amira, Lexia, i-Ready, Reading Plus) for instructional planning or student data interpretation
• Documented reading outcomes you can quantify (fluency growth in WCPM, accuracy gains, decoding level progression) with specific figures
• Experience in alternative or innovative education models (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid)
• Experience in performance, youth sports coaching, or other contexts where you captivated a K-2 audience outside traditional reading instruction
  
  

About Alpha

Join the team building school around student growth

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills.

Roles with real student impact: Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members.

Education work that pays like it matters: Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience.

A culture built for builders: Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. It’s for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it.

Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career.

There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!

Working with us

This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-4849-US-Phoenix-LiteracyProgra.006