**Become a Literacy Coach with the Rural Youth and Adult Literacy Trust (RYALT)!** - Are you passionate about literacy and making a positive impact in your community? Look no further! Our volunteer literacy coaches are the core of our organisation.
**About our students** - Students vary from people learning the alphabet to those wanting to write essays, but most are somewhere in between. - They don’t have the skills they need for everyday life. - Our students range in age from 14 to 65 and are from all walks of life. - We ask for your preferences about the kind of person you would be comfortable working with. Your enthusiasm, patience, and commitment are what matter most.
**What You'll Do As a Literacy Coach** - Volunteers for this role will be teaching the basics of reading and writing. - You will be working one to one with a student, by video-conference. - Each coach will be coaching three times a week for a minimum of half an hour each time, as well as doing the planning for these meetings. - Attend professional development workshops online.
**What We're Looking For** - The main qualities you need are: be friendly, patient, love helping others, and have an analytical mind. Our training and support covers the rest. - You will need moderate technology skills. You will be required to download and use our messaging app, Slack, for communication and our wiki library of resources. - We have tech support people who can help you learn to use these tools, if you are not confident. Using them is an essential part of the role. - This role requires long-term commitment (a minimum of a year) and a fair bit of your time. However it can be flexible. It also very rewarding.
