Your Role

Working closely with our VP of Academics and Director, Academics and Literacy Partnership, the Literacy Manager will help identify our progress towards instructional goals and next steps to ensure continuous improvement. Reporting to our Director, this person is responsible for directly managing a team of 8-10 Literacy Specialists. The Literacy Manager oversees, supports and ensures that Literacy Specialists are maximally impactful in their work of driving student outcomes and achieving team as well as company wide goals in service of Ignite Reading’s academic vision. This is a Full-time Position.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation of meeting structures, instructional strategies, curriculum updates, and interventions developed by Director and Academics, VP with the team literacy specialists across 15,000+ students and growing
• Develop clear systems of observation, feedback, and coaching for literacy specialists in order to ensure all Ignite Reading instructional systems and meeting structures are implemented with fidelity and reinforce values and culture of Ignite Reading in all internal and external interactions
• Support in data collection and analysis across all school partnerships, data studies, and support the development of data reports
• Serve as the strategic leader for regions that you lead and ensure that the goals for the partnership are achieved through collaboration between key team members on the Customer Success and Partnerships team
• Gather key information in order to guide and provide feedback to Literacy Specialists about their school partner relationship to ensure that school partner relationships are developed, nurtured, and focused on key student growth goals
• Support Literacy Specialist team with supporting students who need additional intervention and share instructional trends with the Instructional Designer
• In addition to supporting instructional data, collect key data on Literacy Specialist performance and use this to guide observation feedback and next steps for the Literacy Specialist team
• Meet regularly with the Director, Literacy and Academic Partnership to share regional updates and communicate bright spots and needs for the Literacy Specialist team
• Collaborate with Partnerships and Customer Success to ensure knowledge alignment across key regions
• Support the work of the Literacy Team and offer support to the team members as needed

Core Competencies

• Ethics & Integrity: Behave in a fair and ethical manner towards peers, partners, tutors, and children; instill mutual trust and confidence; act with honesty and integrity.
• Planning/Organizing/Goal Setting: Demonstrate the ability to organize people and tasks; develop realistic action plans while being sensitive to time constraints and resource availability; define realistic, specific goals and objectives; prioritize objectives.
• Teamwork and Collaboration: Work with colleagues to build morale and team commitment to goals and objectives.
• Diversity: Understand that each individual is unique and celebrate individual differences including race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, mental or physical (dis)ability, marital status, veteran status, education, training, position, level of authority, seniority, full-time or part-time status.
• Collaboration: Cultivate a positive partner and customer service relationship; foster two-way communication; deliver experiences that exceed stakeholders’ expectations.
• Continuous Improvement: Continuously seek opportunities for innovative approaches to address organizational opportunities.
• Leadership: The ability to guide and develop our existing and future Literacy Specialists
• Solution-Oriented: Exhibit initiative; take action in solving problems; positive attitude focused on collaboration and team problem solving.

Job Qualifications

• 3+ years of classroom experience teaching literacy
• 3+ years of experience coaching teachers, instructional leaders, or other coaching experience
• 5+ years using data to set the path for instructional growth. This includes but is not limited to using data to identify progress towards goals, instructional trends, and instructional support needed.
• Strong emotional intelligence and ability to facilitate work with Literacy Specialists, including building relationships in service of the mission of Ignite and Ignite’s strategic priorities
• The ability to identify areas of improvement and communicate in service of finding the best solution
• Understanding the importance of the Science of Reading (SOR) and willingness to become deeply knowledgeable about SOR. Must have formal training in SOR.
• Exceptional attention to detail and ability to straddle multiple strategic projects while also dipping into other practical aspects of the work (i.e., teaching children to read)
• High expectations for what tutors and children can achieve paired with a relentless commitment to ensuring that Ignite achieves its mission
• Extraordinary communication skills; written, verbal, and interpersonal
• Ability to self-manage and be flexible while working in a remote environment
• Working knowledge of Google platform
• Nice to haves:
  
  • Experience partnering with schools and/or districts
  • Former school leader experience

At Ignite Reading, we’ve decided to embrace a transparent compensation structure for a few reasons:

To promote fairness and equity: This approach supports fairness within our structure. When everyone knows how compensation decisions are made, it reduces the likelihood of pay discrimination based on factors like gender, race, relationships, or negotiation skills.

To provide accountability for our approach: The same role receives the same compensation, with no negotiation.

To build trust within the organization: When employees understand how their compensation is determined, they are more likely to trust organizational structures and decisions, which can lead to overall better culture.

To support legal considerations: Many states are moving to requiring compensation listed on job descriptions and we want to follow these rules.

Salary: $90,000

We also ensure you have the tools you need to thrive both in and out of work.

• Employee Stock Options
• Medical, Dental, and Vision (80% employee coverage, 50% dependent coverage)
• Short-term disability (100% employer paid)
• Technology Stipend
• Unlimited PTO + 12 paid holidays
• Professional Development Stipend
• Wellness Reimbursement
• Internet Stipend
• 12 Weeks of Parental Leave
• Yearly Staff Retreat
• Voluntary Life Insurance