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

You've invested years building mastery in structured literacy. Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction. You can identify a student's miscue and pinpoint the exact phonemic gap to address. You can create a phonics lesson from scratch without a scripted program. That's expected. It's not what sets you apart.

What sets you apart is that six-year-olds get excited when you enter the room. At Alpha, this position is first and foremost a Guide: a dynamic, engaging presence children are eager to work with. Your structured-literacy credentials open the door; your capacity to captivate a K-2 classroom for a 20-minute workshop is what earns you the role. If "dynamic, engaging presence" doesn't resonate with you, this isn't the right fit.

Alpha has dismantled conventional instruction. Students work through academic content independently on AI-adaptive applications — no lectures, no textbooks, no pacing calendars. Your position represents the one area where a human expert cannot be replaced. You create small-group reading workshops using real-time student performance data, and you facilitate motivation sessions that ensure 100% of your students reach their weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification).

Your initial months focus on establishing rapport. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately levelled, and demonstrably effective. Student satisfaction metrics and "love your Guide" surveys (90%+ target) provide direct measurement. Once you've established that foundation, your responsibilities expand: analyzing AI-generated performance data to refine subsequent instruction, communicating fluency improvements and decoding progress to parents, and influencing how Alpha's K-2 reading methodology develops alongside the adaptive platforms. As Alpha opens additional campuses, your work becomes the blueprint for reading instruction across the network.

Before extending an offer, you'll record a brief video delivering an engaging story for young children, and you'll spend a full day on campus engaging directly with K-2 students. Low energy with kids will disqualify you, regardless of credential strength. That's intentional. Apply today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Creating and facilitating small-group K-2 reading workshops anchored in structured-literacy approaches (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent), driven by actual student data
• Facilitating daily motivation sessions that ensure 100% of your students achieve their weekly adaptive-app targets, leveraging Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
• Conducting and evaluating running records, fluency probes, and decoding assessments to monitor progress and refine subsequent instruction
• Analyzing AI-generated performance data from Alpha's adaptive learning applications to differentiate instruction in the moment, not solely during pre-planning
• Serving as the approachable, energetic adult your K-2 students anticipate seeing every day

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Implementing a published reading curriculum, scripted program, or district pacing calendar; you create your own lessons using student data
• Delivering whole-class lectures; 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 are in the classroom with children every day
• Managing a traditional classroom schedule — subject-by-subject lectures, homework correction, test preparation; your scheduled time consists of workshops, motivation sessions, and data-informed small groups instead
• Grading homework or producing report cards; student advancement is tracked in app data and your running 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

• 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, using systematic phonics or structured literacy
• Proven ability to create your own reading lessons and clearly explain what you teach and how, without depending on a published program
• Availability to work in person 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 available)
• Willingness to instruct all K-2 students (not exclusively struggling readers) and to incorporate AI and adaptive-learning platforms into daily instruction
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Direct experience with AI-powered or adaptive reading platforms (e.g., Amira, Lexia, i-Ready, Reading Plus) for instructional planning or student data interpretation
• Documented reading outcomes (fluency gains in WCPM, accuracy improvements, decoding level progression) you can quantify with specific numbers
• Experience in non-traditional or innovative educational models (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid)
• Experience performing, coaching youth sports, or otherwise engaging a K-2 audience beyond the reading classroom

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 for more details on this topic.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-4849-US-BrokenAr-LiteracyProgra.002