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

• $120,000 annual salary, paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
• On-site position at one Alpha campus location: Beverly Hills, La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton or Miami Beach, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; Charlotte, NC; or New York City, NY (relocation assistance available)
• 40 hours per week, 100% classroom-based work with K-2 students
  
  

Your structured-literacy certification — Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction — has opened every K-2 reading position you've pursued. In most roles, it also represented the upper limit: you executed a prescribed program and documented results. At Alpha, that credential is the entry point. If this difference resonates with you, continue reading.

Alpha has redesigned traditional instruction. Students progress through academic content independently using AI-adaptive applications. There are no lectures, textbooks, or pacing calendars. Your position is the one area where human expertise cannot be replaced. You create 20-minute small-group workshops using real-time application data; sessions are deliberately brief because targeted instruction outperforms duration. You also facilitate motivation sessions that guide 100% of your students toward their weekly app targets through Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, developmentally appropriate gamification). When you detect a student's miscue during a session, you identify the phonemic deficiency and redesign the next day's workshop before leaving. That is the expectation.

Families enrolling at these campuses have selected Alpha for performance outcomes, not simply enrollment. Parents receive weekly data documenting their child's reading development, and they form opinions. You will field specific questions about individual student advancement, and vague reassurances will not suffice. You will reference the running record, identify the phonemic weakness, and describe your intervention. This level of accountability should energize you, not burden 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" survey results (target 90% ) provide direct measurement. As you demonstrate success, your influence expands beyond your own students: effective strategies you develop become templates for other Alpha campuses, and your diagnostic precision influences reading instruction across Alpha's growth trajectory. Your contributions extend well beyond your classroom walls.

Before hiring, you will submit a short video presenting an engaging story for young children, and you will complete a full day on campus working directly with K-2 students. Low energy with children will disqualify candidates regardless of credential strength. This is intentional. Apply today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Creating small-group K-2 reading workshops based on live adaptive-app data, rooted in structured-literacy approaches (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent)
• Conducting 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 data (fluency trajectories, decoding precision, comprehension indicators) to modify instruction mid-day, not solely during planning periods
• Conducting running records, fluency probes, and decoding assessments to generate gains visible in the weekly campus data review
• Serving as the engaging, energetic adult your K-2 students anticipate seeing daily
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

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

Literacy Program Coordinator Key Responsibilities

Generate measurable K-2 reading advancement across phonics, fluency, and comprehension within a campus community where outcomes undergo weekly review.

Basic Requirements

• 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 field, plus 2 years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical environment within the past 5 years, utilizing systematic phonics or structured literacy
• Proven capacity to create your own reading lessons and articulate what you teach and how, independent of a published program
• Commitment to working in person full-time at one Alpha campus: Beverly Hills, La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton or Miami Beach, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; Charlotte, NC; or New York City, NY (relocation assistance available)
• Willingness to instruct all K-2 students (not exclusively struggling readers) and incorporate AI and adaptive-learning technologies into daily instruction as these tools develop
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Practical experience with AI-powered or adaptive reading platforms (e.g., Amira, Lexia, i-Ready, Reading Plus) for instructional planning or student data interpretation
• Documented history of measurable reading outcomes (fluency gains in WCPM, accuracy improvements, decoding level progression) you can quantify
• Familiarity with diagnostic reading assessments (DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb) for creating differentiated instructional groups
• Experience in high-accountability educational settings (independent schools, elite charter networks, premium tutoring where families monitor outcomes closely)
• Background in performing, coaching youth sports, or otherwise engaging a K-2 audience outside traditional reading instruction
  
  

About Alpha

Want to join a learning rebellion that’s transforming the traditional classroom?

Alpha School is on a mission to reshape education with a bold approach that harnesses AI to accelerate learning and unleash student potential.

They don’t play by the old rules.

Alpha is creating a new paradigm where students master core academics in just two hours a day, freeing up time for hands-on, passion-driven learning that truly prepares them for the real world.

Alpha School is rewriting the rules of education.

Sounds too good to be true? It’s not.

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 $60 USD/hour, which equates to $120,000 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-5632-US-SantaBar-LiteracyProgra.004