Multitudes Training Specialist

Employment Duration: 6 months (w/ potential to be extended)

Note: This position will require commuting between the Bay Area and Sacramento.

The UCSF Dyslexia Center (https://dyslexia.ucsf.edu/) focuses on improving diagnosis, care, and interventions for children and adults with learning challenges and includes principal investigators across the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry. The multidisciplinary research team includes neuroscientists, geneticists, and clinicians across language, reading, cognition, aging, visuospatial, and social domains who examine the whole person throughout the lifespan. This approach helps characterize the strengths and weaknesses associated with dyslexia and develop interventions and educational strategies to help children with dyslexia thrive.

The Dyslexia Center has developed Multitudes (https://multitudesinfo.ucsf.edu/), a state-funded early reading screening tool for kindergarten through second-grade students. Available at no cost to California public schools, Multitudes assists educators in identifying possible reading obstacles, supporting early intervention, and highlighting student strengths. Grounded in the latest research in the neuroscience of reading, the platform is designed to identify students who may experience reading difficulty and provide actionable results and practical next steps for educators.

The Multitudes Training Specialist supports the statewide implementation of Multitudes by facilitating virtual and in-person training sessions for educators throughout California. Working as part of a dynamic, interdisciplinary team, the Training Specialist helps users adopt and effectively implement the Multitudes platform and screener with K–2 students.

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate virtual professional development sessions for schools and districts adopting Multitudes.
• Provide support to training participants to ensure training learning goals are met.
• Collect participant feedback on training content and use of the Multitudes platform.
• Provide feedback to the Training Lead on training sessions, including areas for improvement.
• Collaborate with the Training Lead to support the ongoing development of training content and instructional approaches.
• Communicate effectively with training participants about the purpose and benefits of universal screening using Multitudes.
• Help establish and maintain positive relationships between the Multitudes team and school partners.

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Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field and/or equivalent experience or training.
• Minimum two years of relevant field experience.
• Experience working with educators as adult learners in a training, coaching, or professional development setting.
• Experience teaching literacy in the early elementary grades.
• Demonstrated cultural competency with respect to race, ethnicity, and socio-economic status.
• Strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative relationships with district and school-level administrators, principals, teachers, students, and community contacts.
• Ability to deliver culturally relevant, linguistically appropriate instruction to adult learners.
• Technological proficiency and problem-solving skills related to video conferencing and virtual presentations.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Effective collaboration skills within an interdisciplinary team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience teaching multilingual students and students with learning disabilities.
• Knowledge of evidence-based reading strategies and bilingual literacy development.
• Bilingual Spanish speaker.