[Hiring] Tutor Educator Fall 2026 Cohort @Ignite Reading

Role Description

Ignite Reading is hiring Tutor Educators to join our certification program and tutor students throughout the academic year.

• Conduct daily, one-on-one virtual tutoring sessions lasting 15 minutes with the same students, five days a week, focusing on foundational reading skills.
• Must complete a 7-week Tutor Training Program.
• Commit to a minimum of 3+ hours of consistent daily availability to provide high-quality, high-dosage tutoring to students.

Qualifications

• Navigate virtual platforms and personal computer hardware and software (including toggling between multiple screens and tabs).
• Positively receive and then implement feedback.
• Cultivate trusting, meaningful relationships with students and peers.
• Focus on outcomes and student learning with high attention to detail.
• Complete and meet deadlines for all ongoing coursework.
• Approach each day of tutoring excited to work with students and hold promises to them sacred.
• Practice empathy and understanding, hold high expectations for students, and never give up on them.
• Arrive on time for all tutoring sessions and maintain strong attendance.
• Fulfill all duties associated with the role while representing the Ignite Reading program with professionalism.
• Deliver Ignite Reading’s curriculum with fidelity and record student data.
• Meet performance standards for attendance, punctuality, instruction, and student growth and learning.

Requirements

• Must be eligible to work within the United States.
• Successfully pass a background check.
• Complete fingerprinting when required by Ignite Reading partners.
• Pass a sexual misconduct and former employment verification check.
• We cannot consider applicants who reside in California, Illinois, Iowa, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, Seattle, or the District of Columbia.
• Candidates who spend 51% or more of their time living and working outside of the United States are also ineligible.
• Tutors are paid $17.50 per hour while completing the certification course; once certified, tutors earn $20 per hour.
• Bilingual individuals who speak Spanish or other languages are strongly encouraged to apply.

Benefits

• Paid training course in the Science of Reading Instruction.
• Provisional Ignite Reading certification upon completion of the training course.