Sunday, February 7, 2021

Job Description: Literacy Tutor

Purpose
  • To help adults develop and use reading, writing, and math skills to meet self-identified goals

Qualifications
  • Mature demeanor (and over 20 years old or enrolled in college), respectful, empathetic
  • Strong reading, writing, and/or math skills
  • Dependable, truthful, prompt, organized, realistic expectations, sense of humor, flexible, friendly, patient, optimistic, sensitive, creative
  • Willing to explore ideas, follow instructions, use initiative; Open to learning
  • Maintain confidentiality about learners' lives and the work you are doing with them

Commitment 
  • Volunteer at least 2-3.5 hours per week for a minimum of twelve months (college students for a minimum of 2 hours per week for one semester). Specific days and times are based on each volunteer's availability. (Volunteers are welcome to take vacations, etc., throughout the year.)
  • Successfully complete Volunteer Orientation course, 14-hour Tutor/Volunteer Training Workshop ($35), & NRS training module. Submit appropriate documentation and demonstrate understanding of the content of each course. 
  • Participate in 2-hour Tutor Talks (in-service trainings) four-five times annually, plus other trainings & at least 1 state-sponsored workshop throughout the year, as available. Submit appropriate documentation, highlighting information learned. 

Responsibilities -- Online or Classroom Setting
  • Successfully complete required training and ongoing professional development.
  • Work with learners one-on-one or in a group online or in-person. Use provided curriculum & guidelines. Design & deliver lessons specific to individual or group. 
  • Help learners accomplish their intellectual, academic, and career goals, while also meeting learners’ needs. Facilitate learners' exploration, experimentation, and articulation of the content and strategic behaviors they are building. Find ways to encourage, support, & celebrate their progress.
  • Record work done in work logs at the end of sessions. Share content, methods, and results of instruction with staff following lessons.
  • Maintain a learning environment that is free of physical, sexual, and/or verbal abuse, with no touching. Respect learners' dignities. Accept learners without judgment.
  • Keep information about learners in strict confidence. Don’t exploit anyone for profit or personal gain or use persuasion or coercion to influence anyone to adopt a personal, political, or religious belief. 
  • Share questions and concerns with our staff. 

Benefits
  • Altered perception of the world
  • Enhanced understanding of the problems of illiteracy
  • Increased creative and problem-solving skills
  • Broadened appreciation of different values and lifestyles
  • Gain strategies for helping adults make sense of our print-oriented world
  • Joy of watching adults grow, change, and become skilled and passionate learners
  • Request recommendation letter for employment, higher education, etc., after volunteering consistently for two or more years 

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Literacy Action Center, 1234 S Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah  84101
Phone: 801/265-9081   Web: www.LiteracyActionCenter.org
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We serve English-speaking adults
living in Salt Lake County and Davis County, Utah.
 No person shall be denied services because of race, religion, color, sex, disability, age, or national origin.