YReads! Program Tutor

YMCA of Greater St. Petersburg • Saint Petersburg, FL

43d • $15 • Onsite

About The Position

The YReads! Program is an exciting literacy/mentoring initiative for kindergarten through fifth-grade students, taking place at Pinellas County Schools throughout St. Petersburg, FL. The program uses curriculum-based literacy instruction to help struggling readers in areas of phonetics, sight word recognition, spelling, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. As a tutor, you would provide assistance and support to the program coordinator during YReads! hours to ensure that outlined program goals and procedures are being achieved.

Requirements

• Must be 16 years or older
• Desire or interest in learning about literacy intervention
• Experience working with children in an educational environment
• Compassion and empathy for struggling readers
• Level 2 background clearance and 10-panel drug screen required.

Nice To Haves

• Tutoring experience strongly preferred

Responsibilities

• Assists in student supervision, help maintain order, and positively reinforce "good choices" when appropriate.
• Assists students to and from the restroom.
• Assists coordinator in picking up and dropping off students around the school.
• Oversees and ensures that mandatory procedures are being followed when parents or guardian are picking up students.
• Maintains necessary paper work: testing, volunteer and student sign in and out logs.
• Required to teach basic reading skills using lessons developed by the YREADS Coordinator using all curricula.
• Attends required abuse risk management training.
• Follows mandated abuse reporting requirements.
• Adheres to job specific abuse risk management responsibilities.

Benefits

• $15/hour
• Part-time/after school hours, 4 days per week. Approximately 15 hours per week.
• Excellent benefits including retirement savings and child care before/after school upon meeting eligibility requirements.
• Free individual YMCA membership for employee and discount for family.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Social Assistance
• Education Level: No Education Listed