Overview:

Trainers with Once will travel to school districts to teach schools’ employees how to deliver Once instruction to their students. Once is an early-reading tutoring program that prepares schools’ support staff to lead short, daily, one-on-one tutoring sessions with students, mostly kindergarteners. (Learn more about Once at tryonce.com.) Trainers will travel to districts in North and South Carolina, DC, Tennessee, Indiana, and Long Island to lead large-group onboarding sessions with dozens of new instructors at a time and to lead small-group sessions in which they will model high-quality instruction, role-play and practice with the instructors, and give them feedback so that they deliver excellent instruction to their students. Trainers will make $400 per day, and Once will cover the cost of travel, lodging, and a per diem for food. Trainers are an important part of Once’s mission to deliver early-reading instruction that will accelerate students toward lives full of the opportunity, connection, meaning, and joy that come from being a successful reader.

Details:

This is a contractor position that will begin as early as July 22, 2024, and will require the Trainer to spend weekdays on the road into October.

Before Trainers lead onboarding sessions independently, they will shadow someone else leading sessions, studying how to do it. They will also take an LMS course asynchronously that would give them more opportunity to study how to lead these sessions. Then they will be ready to lead onboarding sessions with someone else shadowing them and giving them feedback. Then, the Trainer will be ready to fly solo. We will pay the same day rate when a Trainer is shadowing and being shadowed, and we will pay them $40 per hour for their work in the LMS.

Onboarding for new instructors happens in two stages. Part 1 is a large-group introduction to Once. Ideally, this is when all of the Once instructors across a district (often dozens of them) come together in a cafeteria or large professional-development space for 3-4 hours. Part 2 is when we go to each individual school to practice with small groups of instructors. Usually, this means working with about 4 instructions in a classroom for 3-4 hours. That session is very heavy on practicing, role-playing, and giving feedback to get instructors ready to work with students. So, a district with 8 schools using Once could complete all of their onboarding in one week if they did Part 1 on a Monday and two Part 2 sessions (one morning and one afternoon) on each day from Tuesday through Friday. Workdays for Trainers, therefore, usually mean working regular school hours, like 7am to 3pm.

By preparing instructors, our Trainers take responsibility for the reading progress of hundreds of students from across the country, ensuring that they master reading skills by the end of our one-year program.

Anticipated Start:

July 22, 2024

Responsibilities:

Build instructors’ skill, ability, and confidence to teach the Once reading curriculum.
Work with a diverse population of instructors, and use creativity and resilience to invest them in teaching the program and to engage them in training sessions.
Study the Once curriculum and practice instruction so that you can model at a high level and ensure that instructors will teach effectively.
Maintain high standards of accuracy while encouraging instructors' improvement by correcting errors directly, consistently, and with care.
Facilitate live practice (with instructors) of specific aspects of instruction, and ensure that all of your feedback gets implemented precisely.
Shadow existing Trainers, study asynchronously, and engage in feedback meetings about the way that you lead onboarding sessions.

Qualifications:

You are able to commit to traveling for work on weekdays from late July into October.
You are able to commit to working full days during those months.
You have a firm belief in and commitment to Once’s mission.
You maintain high expectations for every instructor. Each instructor will be different, so you will differentiate your approaches accordingly, but you will maintain ambitious goals for them all.
You pay meticulous attention to detail when preparing for onboarding sessions, when facilitating sessions, and when receiving feedback from Once's leadership.
You are willing to take personal responsibility for your instructors’ success and for your own.
You have excellent verbal and written communication skills. Clarity is key!
You are eager for feedback and are committed to your own continual improvement as a Trainer.
You speak and act lovingly to every instructor regardless of how any instructor may speak and act toward you.

About Once:

Mission:

Our mission is to deliver early-reading instruction that will accelerate students toward lives full of the opportunity, connection, meaning, and joy that come from being a successful reader.

Core Values:

We sweat the small stuff.
We find a way.
We thrive on feedback.
We do it all with love.

Hiring Process:

This application process consists of several steps: multiple work tasks, an interview, and reference checks.
Due to the high volume of applicants we expect for this role, please note that it could take up to 2 weeks for you to hear from us regarding a next step. We remain committed to following up with all candidates regarding a final decision on their application.

Job Types: Contract, Temporary

Pay: $400.00 per day

Benefits:

On-the-job training
Paid training

Compensation package:

1099 contract

Experience level:

1 year

Schedule:

8 hour shift
Monday to Friday
No nights
No weekends

Experience:

Training delivery: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: On the road

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