LiteracyCorps: Powered by Reading Partners Tutor

Literacy Mid-South • Memphis, TN

30d • Onsite

About The Position

The LiteracyCorps: Powered by Reading Partners Tutor serves elementary students at UniverCity Family CDC through structured, relationship-centered literacy tutoring. Members provide one-on-one or small-group reading support using program-approved Powered by Reading Partners tools, lesson plans, assessments, and literacy activities. Instruction may support phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, reading confidence, and student engagement. Members also prepare tutoring materials, maintain an organized and welcoming literacy environment, document tutoring and service activities, and communicate with Literacy Mid-South and UniverCity Family CDC staff. UniverCity Family CDC plans to serve up to 55 students during PY26–27 programming. Student assignments will depend on enrollment, eligibility, attendance, and individual literacy needs.

Requirements

• Be at least 18 years old.
• Have a high school diploma or equivalent.
• Meet AmeriCorps eligibility requirements.
• Complete required background checks, orientation, and training before independent service.
• Be dependable, patient, encouraging, and able to maintain a consistent weekly schedule.
• Be available for the established Tuesday–Friday afternoon schedule.
• Be able to complete 300 required service hours during the service term.
• Maintain professional conduct, confidentiality, and appropriate boundaries while serving students.
• Accurately record service hours.
• Submit required timesheets by established deadlines.
• Correct errors promptly.
• Accurately categorize service and training activities.
• Maintain required tutoring, attendance, and student-support documentation.
• Never misrepresent hours or record non-service activities as AmeriCorps service.
• Maintain appropriate supervision and professional boundaries, protect confidential student information, follow site safety procedures, and report accidents, injuries, behavioral incidents, and other safety concerns promptly.
• Comply with applicable mandatory reporting requirements related to suspected child abuse, neglect, or maltreatment.
• Follow applicable policies regarding nondiscrimination and anti-harassment, AmeriCorps prohibited activities, ethics and compliance, confidentiality, safety, attendance and timekeeping, conflicts of interest, drug-free service environments, electronic communications and social media, and service-site expectations.
• May not participate in prohibited AmeriCorps activities while serving, charging service time, or representing themselves as performing AmeriCorps service.

Nice To Haves

• Prior tutoring, mentoring, education, or youth-development experience is preferred but not required.
• Applicants may include college students, recent graduates, gap-year participants, future educators, tutors, mentors, youth workers, Memphis-area residents committed to literacy equity, and others interested in youth literacy and community service.

Responsibilities

• Provide consistent one-on-one or small-group reading tutoring to assigned students.
• Use approved tutoring materials, lesson plans, assessments, and literacy activities.
• Support phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, reading confidence, and engagement.
• Prepare tutoring materials and maintain an organized service space.
• Accurately track tutoring sessions, attendance, service hours, and required student records.
• Participate in LiteracyCorps orientation, Powered by Reading Partners training, coaching, check-ins, and required AmeriCorps activities.
• Communicate with Literacy Mid-South staff regarding student progress, site updates, challenges, and material needs.
• Coordinate with UniverCity Family CDC staff regarding schedules, space, closures, and site expectations.
• Maintain a safe, welcoming, encouraging, and literacy-rich environment.
• Support summer literacy-building activities when assigned.
• Follow Literacy Mid-South, LiteracyCorps, AmeriCorps, Powered by Reading Partners, and service-site policies and procedures.

Benefits

• AmeriCorps living allowance based on the 300-hour service term.
• Segal AmeriCorps Education Award upon successful completion of service requirements.
• Powered by Reading Partners training and ongoing coaching.
• Professional development opportunities.
• AmeriCorps gear.
• Community networking opportunities.
• Experience supporting elementary readers through community-based literacy programming.
• Limited mileage reimbursement for qualifying program-mandated travel between service locations, when applicable.
• Eligibility for student-loan forbearance during service, when applicable.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED