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Position Title: Fluency Interventionist
Organizational Overview
With a focus on improving educational equity and promoting a more just society, Helping Education provides evidence-based programs and services that are free or low-cost and meaningfully advance student outcomes from birth through adulthood. To promote educational equity, we partner with educators and community organizations that serve a high percentage of students who are historically underserved. We support educators and families from every state in the U.S. and more than 65 countries around the globe, supporting more than 10,000 individuals annually. More information about HelpingEducation’s mission, values, staff, and programs can be found at https://helpingeducation.org/who-we-are/.
Detailed Job Description
The primary tasks of the Fluency Interventionist will include:
- Serve as Helping Education’s representative at a designated school
- Deliver pre-planned literacy intervention sessions in-person to small groups of students
- Manage relationships between school staff and Helping Education
- Build rapport with students while following a scripted, research-based lesson plan
- Collaborate with school-based and Helping Education colleagues to support student progress
- Communicate clearly with students, their school-based support systems, and colleagues
- Record data to document student progress and support data-based decisions
- Ability to manage student groups and/or work within a classroom environment
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Committed to completing tasks efficiently
- Demonstrates excellent time management skills, reliability and trustworthiness
- Ability to multitask (i.e., working on various tasks simultaneously)
- Excellent communication skills with all stakeholders (i.e., students, families, school staff, etc.)
- Excellent problem solving skills
- Exhibits professionalism and integrity
- A commitment to education equity
- Demonstrates a growth mindset
- Demonstrates and openness to feedback and continuous improvement
- Comfortable and skilled with technology (Web-based browsers, Google Meet, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Zoom)
- Reliable transportation – open to driving 10-15 miles
- Access to a laptop
- A quick learner comfortable becoming an expert in our reading fluency intervention programs
- Passionate about promoting learners’ reading skills and confidence
- Minimum of 1 year of completed college-level coursework in nonprofit management, education, social work, psychology, communications, or related field is preferred.
- Ideal candidate has experience working with elementary-aged students in an academic setting
- Cornelius-area school with daytime hours
- Northwest Charlotte school with after-school hours
- Central Charlotte school with daytime hours
- Central Charlotte school with after-school hours
- Southwest Charlotte school with after-school hours