Academic Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

About the role

Alpha School leverages AI-driven 1:1 instruction, enabling students to complete core academic work in approximately two hours per day. This structure opens the remainder of the day for life skills development, passion projects, and meaningful personal development. At our most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor who can assess the environment, establish expectations, and guide them past resistance, distraction, and uncertainty.

Responsibilities

• Conduct 1:1 and small-group coaching that translates student objectives into reliable execution and quantifiable outcomes
• Analyze student data and goals to identify obstacles and design ambitious, personalized motivation strategies
• Facilitate high-rigor life-skills workshops through authentic narrative, guided reflection, and practical application, followed by competency assessment
• Direct daily opening sessions that establish culture, communicate high expectations, and prepare students before work begins
• Build trusted mentor relationships with students and families by maintaining high standards, consistency, and mature judgment

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Deliver traditional classroom instruction, lectures, or academic tutoring
• Develop curriculum, write lesson plans, or evaluate student assignments
• Supervise staff, oversee campus operations, or assume administrative leadership responsibilities
• Compromise standards in exchange for short-term compliance or superficial progress

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any field
• At least one clear elite marker (athletics, academics, career achievement, or elite coaching)
• Experience in people-facing mentoring, coaching, or leadership that measurably raised others' performance
• Comfort operating in high-accountability environments with clear standards and follow-through
• Ability to lead engaging, high-rigor group sessions and coach individuals with strong judgment
• Willingness to work full-time (40 hours/week) in person at Alpha's Austin campus
• Legal right to work in the U.S.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Multiple elite markers with clear evidence of raising standards and outcomes
• Experience using data and analytics to drive coaching plans and accountability
• Background in selective firms, competitive startups, or elite athletics programs with intense performance expectations

Pay

The compensation level for this role is $75 USD/hour, which equates to $150,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly.

Schedule

This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position.