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NOW HIRING: AmeriCorps Member (Full-time Duke NC LiteracyCorps position based in Asheville)
Are you looking to help move literacy forward and support local students? Join the dedicated team at Read to Succeed Asheville/Buncombe and dive into a world of compassionate community partnerships and vibrant learning ecosystems. We are on a mission to help close the race-based opportunity gap through community-powered literacy programming that engages children, families, and community partners!
Location: Asheville, NC
At Read to Succeed, we believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates are critical to the success of providing family-centered, culturally competent services in all communities. We seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
Service Summary
Read to Succeed’s NC LiteracyCorps service position will support our three primary programming pillars - K-3 Tutoring, Kindergarten-Readiness, and Community Literacy Engagement. The LiteracyCorps member will help strengthen program support for students and expand R2S reach to more local families and community partners.
Job responsibilities include:
Are you looking to help move literacy forward and support local students? Join the dedicated team at Read to Succeed Asheville/Buncombe and dive into a world of compassionate community partnerships and vibrant learning ecosystems. We are on a mission to help close the race-based opportunity gap through community-powered literacy programming that engages children, families, and community partners!
Location: Asheville, NC
At Read to Succeed, we believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates are critical to the success of providing family-centered, culturally competent services in all communities. We seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
Service Summary
Read to Succeed’s NC LiteracyCorps service position will support our three primary programming pillars - K-3 Tutoring, Kindergarten-Readiness, and Community Literacy Engagement. The LiteracyCorps member will help strengthen program support for students and expand R2S reach to more local families and community partners.
Job responsibilities include:
- (Capacity Building) Day-to-day duties - strengthening volunteer program through resource building, supporting volunteer recruitment and retention, creating and growing existing systems for tracking/supporting volunteers, managing office coordination tasks, overseeing book/family reading resource distribution networks, etc.
- (Capacity Building) Communications - increasing awareness and engagement with R2S brand, generating family reading content for the R2S website and blog, distributing outreach materials for family literacy events, supporting R2S eMarketing and social media presence, and engaging with our education and community partners.
- (Direct Service) Training/tutor support - actively supporting tutors, students, and families R2S engages at literacy events, workshops, and trainings. Providing literacy tutoring to students enrolled in the K-3 tutoring program.
NOW HIRING: After-School K-4 Reading Teacher (CONTRACT, 4 - 10 hours/week)
Are you looking to support local elementary students in building foundation literacy skills to become strong readers? Join the dedicated team at Read to Succeed Asheville/Buncombe and dive into a world of compassionate community partnerships and vibrant learning ecosystems. We are on a mission to help close the race-based opportunity gap through community-powered literacy programming that engages children, families, and community partners!
Location: Asheville, NC
Position Summary
CONTRACT - Reports to: Co-Executive Directors
At Read to Succeed, we believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates are critical to the success of providing family-centered, culturally competent services in all communities. We seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
An integral member of the R2S team, K-4 reading teachers support students in the Arthur R. Edington Center Chosen PODS After-school during the school year. They conduct group Fundations and Heggerty lessons plus organize small groups for targeted reading instruction, reading centers, and more.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned:
Programming:
Qualifications
Details
Location: Arthur R. Edington Center Chosen PODS After-School (133 Livingston St., Asheville, NC 28801)
Dates: September 2022 - May 2023 (2 - 4x/week, flexible with which days of the week)
Time: 3:30pm - 5pm plus planning time
Pay: $45/hr
To apply please send a resume and or cover letter along with a one-minute video of why you would like to join the R2S team as an After-School Reading Teacher (CONTRACT) to admin@r2sasheville.org. Please title your submission After-School Reading Teacher. Submissions will be taken into consideration up until the deadline of 11:59 PM on September 12, 2022.
Are you looking to support local elementary students in building foundation literacy skills to become strong readers? Join the dedicated team at Read to Succeed Asheville/Buncombe and dive into a world of compassionate community partnerships and vibrant learning ecosystems. We are on a mission to help close the race-based opportunity gap through community-powered literacy programming that engages children, families, and community partners!
Location: Asheville, NC
Position Summary
CONTRACT - Reports to: Co-Executive Directors
At Read to Succeed, we believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates are critical to the success of providing family-centered, culturally competent services in all communities. We seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
An integral member of the R2S team, K-4 reading teachers support students in the Arthur R. Edington Center Chosen PODS After-school during the school year. They conduct group Fundations and Heggerty lessons plus organize small groups for targeted reading instruction, reading centers, and more.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned:
Programming:
- Manage a classroom of 12 - 24 Kindergarten/1st, 2nd, or 3rd/4th grade students with the help of an assistant teacher and after-school staff
- Prepare lesson plans and implement curricula to teach language and literacy skills, learning, logic, and reasoning skills in collaboration with R2S staff.
- Teach foundational literacy skills (i.e., phonemic awareness, phonics, comprehension, vocabulary, etc. using Fundations phonics curricula and Heggerty phonemic awareness curricula
- Assist R2S staff with student progress monitoring and data collection and analysis
- Report on classroom activities, focus skills, and student successes
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education, Child Development, or related field. (Student teachers and those pursuing teacher certification are welcome to apply.)
- Experience using Fundations phonics curriculum
- Experience using Heggerty or similar phonemic awareness curriculum
- Experience working with students and families who identify as BIPOC
- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
- Knowledge of culturally-responsive teaching strategies
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities
Details
Location: Arthur R. Edington Center Chosen PODS After-School (133 Livingston St., Asheville, NC 28801)
Dates: September 2022 - May 2023 (2 - 4x/week, flexible with which days of the week)
Time: 3:30pm - 5pm plus planning time
Pay: $45/hr
To apply please send a resume and or cover letter along with a one-minute video of why you would like to join the R2S team as an After-School Reading Teacher (CONTRACT) to admin@r2sasheville.org. Please title your submission After-School Reading Teacher. Submissions will be taken into consideration up until the deadline of 11:59 PM on September 12, 2022.