Training Specialist

Note: This role will be based at Multitudes partner school sites across California, requiring regular travel to various locations throughout the state. Candidates should be comfortable traveling as needed; the position does not require working onsite in San Francisco.

Employment Duration: 6 months (w/ potential to be extended)

The UCSF Dyslexia Center (https://dyslexia.ucsf.edu/) focuses on improving diagnosis, care, and interventions for children and adults with learning challenges and includes principal investigators across the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry. The multidisciplinary research team includes neuroscientists, geneticists, and clinicians across language, reading, cognition, aging, visuospatial, and social domains who examine the whole person throughout the lifespan. This approach helps characterize the strengths and weaknesses associated with dyslexia and develop interventions and educational strategies to help children with dyslexia thrive.

The Dyslexia Center has developed Multitudes (https://multitudesinfo.ucsf.edu/), a state-funded early reading screening tool for kindergarten through second-grade students. Available at no cost to California public schools, Multitudes assists educators in identifying possible reading obstacles, supporting early intervention, and highlighting student strengths. Grounded in the latest research in the neuroscience of reading, the platform is designed to identify students who may experience reading difficulty and provide actionable results and practical next steps for educators.

The Multitudes Training Specialist supports the statewide implementation of Multitudes by facilitating virtual and in-person training sessions for educators throughout California. Working as part of a dynamic, interdisciplinary team, the Training Specialist helps users adopt and effectively implement the Multitudes platform and screener with K–2 students.

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate virtual professional development sessions for schools and districts adopting Multitudes.
• Provide support to training participants to ensure training learning goals are met.
• Collect participant feedback on training content and use of the Multitudes platform.
• Provide feedback to the Training Lead on training sessions, including areas for improvement.
• Collaborate with the Training Lead to support the ongoing development of training content and instructional approaches.
• Communicate effectively with training participants about the purpose and benefits of universal screening using Multitudes.
• Help establish and maintain positive relationships between the Multitudes team and school partners.

Responsibilities

N/A

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field and/or equivalent experience or training.
• Bilingual Spanish speaker.
• Minimum two years of relevant field experience.
• Experience working with educators as adult learners in a training, coaching, or professional development setting.
• Experience teaching literacy in the early elementary grades.
• Demonstrated cultural competency with respect to race, ethnicity, and socio-economic status.
• Strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative relationships with district and school-level administrators, principals, teachers, students, and community contacts.
• Ability to deliver culturally relevant, linguistically appropriate instruction to adult learners.
• Technological proficiency and problem-solving skills related to video conferencing and virtual presentations.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Effective collaboration skills within an interdisciplinary team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience teaching multilingual students and students with learning disabilities.
• Knowledge of evidence-based reading strategies and bilingual literacy development.

About UCSF
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. It is the only campus in the 10-campus UC system dedicated exclusively to the health sciences. We bring together the world’s leading experts in nearly every area of health. We are home to five Nobel laureates who have advanced the understanding of cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, aging and stem cells.
Pride Values
UCSF is a diverse community made of people with many skills and talents. We seek candidates whose work experience or community service has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to professionalism, respect, integrity, diversity and excellence – also known as our PRIDE values.
In addition to our PRIDE values, UCSF is committed to equity – both in how we deliver care as well as our workforce. We are committed to building a broadly diverse community, nurturing a culture that is welcoming and supportive, and engaging diverse ideas for the provision of culturally competent education, discovery, and patient care. Additional information about UCSF is available here.
Join us to find a rewarding career contributing to improving healthcare worldwide.Equal Employment Opportunity
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law.Salary Information
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Your placement within the salary range is dependent on a number of factors including your work experience and internal equity within this position classification at UCSF. For positions that are represented by a labor union, placement within the salary range will be guided by the rules in the collective bargaining agreement.
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