Lower School Reading Specialist for the 2025-2026 School Year

Position Description

The Geneva School is a mission-driven school established in 1993.  Our mission is to provide students in grades K4-12 an extraordinary education, by means of an integrated curriculum, pedagogy and culture, both distinctly classical and distinctively Christian, that pursues goodness, truth, and beauty in all spheres of life, while viewing these spheres as elements of divinely ordered whole.  Further, Geneva seeks to instill in students a desire to love beauty, think deeply, and pursue Christ’s calling.   As a mission-driven school, faculty members play a central role in fulfilling our mission.

The Geneva School is seeking applications for a full-time lower school reading specialist to serve multiple grade levels by supporting students who would benefit from small group reading intervention.

I. Essential Duties

Specific Job Responsibilities:

• Utilize TGS approved screeners and classroom reading data to identify students who need extra reading support
• Instruct small reading groups
• Design small group interventions that target specific elements of reading in accordance with our TGS reading philosophy and the science of reading
• Create focused take home reading activities for parents to do with their children
• Monitor student progress and constantly update data
• Ensure teachers are keeping classroom progress monitoring data up to date
• Collaborate with fellow teachers, administrators, and the learning specialist regarding communication with parents of students who are being served
• Communicate effectively with students, parents, faculty and staff
• Committed to being a life-long learner as well as committed to growing professionally as an educator through Geneva’s professional formation initiatives.
• Follow Geneva’s policies and procedures
• Assist with extra-curricular responsibilities
• Serve as a role model within our communities for Christian Classical Education

Other Job Requirements:

The following requirements are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of the Lower School Reading Specialist position and are not intended to be inclusive. Reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, as defined by law, to perform any essential functions.

• Lift 20 lbs. occasionally and 10 lbs. frequently
• Sit frequently and stand and walk on varied surfaces
• Bend, stoop, crouch, push, pull, climb, balance, kneel, crawl
• Use hands/arms to reach in any direction and seize, grasp, hold, and turn objects using hand(s). Use fingers, versus the whole hand, to pick, pinch, and feel objects.
• See, talk, and hear to communicate with others in person, electronically, by phone, or by radio. Visual functions include the ability to identify and distinguish colors and bring an object into sharp focus.

II. Personal Profile

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Hold a master’s degree in elementary education with a focus on literacy
• Has experience teaching in primary classrooms
• Orton-Gillingham trained (at least classroom educator level)
• Will understand fundamentally and support the Christian and classical approach to education practiced at The Geneva School.

Intrinsic Qualities:

• Ascribes to and agrees to live in accordance with The Geneva School’s statement of faith
• Holds oneself to a high standard of honesty and integrity
• Able to work effectively both in collaboration with other professionals and on own initiative
• Professional and approachable in appearance and attitude
• Willingness to learn new skills
• Self-motivated with a positive ‘can do’ approach to work
• Reliable/dependable
• Detail-oriented
• Able to search for solutions
• Practices good stewardship of the school’s resources
• Enjoys working around children and is able to form and monitor appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with children and young people.

III. Employment Information

The Geneva School prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, age, marital status, physical disability, handicap, or any other consideration protected by law. Employment decisions will be made on the basis of each applicant’s job qualifications, experience, and abilities and in full accord with The Geneva School’s statement of faith and the school’s statement of mission, vision and values.

Interested applicants please apply at https://www.genevaschool.org/about-us/employment/employment-application/.