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Literacy and Math Tutoring Initiative Literacy Instructor

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Job Description - Literacy and Math Tutoring Initiative Literacy Instructor

The Literacy and Math Tutoring Initiative is a city-wide effort to improve literacy and math skills in students from all across New Haven.  United Way and New Haven Reads (NHR) have been awarded the opportunity of supporting participating after school organizations that wish to provide literacy tutoring to their children. NHR will help recruit tutors, provide literacy training to staff and tutors in a train the trainer model, and provide weekly support to those organizations through after school visits by the Literacy Instructors. There will also be community literacy events and book giveaways for children. The Literacy Tutoring Initiative funding has been extended until August 2026.



Job Description: Literacy Instructor 



Location:  New Haven Reads, New Haven, CT 06511



Non-Exempt – Part time - $25- $35/hour based on experience and certification



Job Reports To:  Co-Literacy Initiative Directors 



Job Summary:  The Literacy Instructor (LI) will support staff and students at select participating after school organizations in effectively implementing a specific literacy tutoring model.  


A pilot program in the summer of 2023 enabled NHR to offer training support to three after school programs.  The tutoring initiative has expanded to 13 programs in the 2025-26 school year.  Literacy Instructors, under the direction of the Literacy Initiative Co-Directors, will visit each site weekly to support the staff of participating organizations, to ensure fidelity to the model, to assess students, and review data. The Literacy Instructors will track data on students from participating organizations. 



Major Responsibilities/Activities:



  • Visit select participating after school organizations weekly to monitor and support literacy instruction 

  • Provide supportive feedback and direction to the organizations’ instructors in appropriate aspects of two literacy models

  • Problem solve with the organizations’ instructors to ensure program fidelity and effectiveness in meeting various student needs.

  • Oversee appropriate maintenance of records of students in participating organizations, including attendance, test scores, books read etc.



Requirements: 



  • College graduate

  • Experience working with children in an education setting 

  • Strong knowledge and background in reading development and the Science of Reading 

  • Can gather, organize, analyze and reflect on student data

  • Experience in Google Suite

  • Able to travel to after school programs in New Haven at least once or twice a week.  



Preferred:



  • College degree in education related field, a teaching certificate

  • Classroom experience

  • Conversational skills in Spanish or Arabic



Schedule: 



  • 3-10 hours/weekly after school or during the day or afternoon in summer programs



To apply: 


Interested applicants should submit employment application (available here), resume and cover letter to the posting on our jobs page. 

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