• If you are a student at Boston University, have a work-study grant, an interest in working with young children, and a commitment to improving children’s literacy skills, you are eligible to be a tutor with BUILD.
• To be a lead tutor with BUILD, you must have prior experience tutoring and/or working with children. Lead tutors should also have prior administrative or supervisory experience.

• The hours you will work depend on the tutoring site. BUILD has both in-school (9:00-4:45) and after school (1:30-6:00) sites, as well as a Reach Out and Read site at the Boston Medical Center (8am-8pm).

• The minimum requirement for tutors is six on-site hours.

• While previous tutoring experience is not required to secure a tutoring position in BUILD, it is preferable that applicants have experience working with children.

• Download and fill out the application.

• Starting pay for tutors is $10.25/hr. Lead tutor pay begins at$12.25/hr.

• Most of the sites are accessible by public transportation. Tutors are paid for time spent traveling to and from their sites from the BU campus. A standard travel time rate has been established for each site. BUILD provides a van or Zipcar for transportation to the four sites that are difficult to reach via public transportation.

• BUILD hires tutors only for the academic year. However, you may be able to make arrangements with your site to be hired as a tutor during the summer.

• If you are interested in having BUILD tutors work with children on literacy development in your in-school or after-school programs, please send this request, in the form of a letter, to Ruth Shane, Director of the Boston University Collaborative Office. In this letter, we ask that you describe your program and specifically your literacy tutoring program, explain how BUILD tutors would be integrated into the program, include the number of children in the program, explain how the program is managed, and describe the role of the on-site coordinator.

*Please note that while we welcome these requests, the BUILD program is not currently looking to expand.