After School Program Leader, Alpha - $100,000/year USD
Crossover · Nashville, TN · 3 wk ago
Education$100k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings using for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title as heading. Remove boilerplate. Must preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the posting.
Key info:
- Quote from Sam DePalo: "I never have that feeling on Sunday night of dreading going to work. I'm genuinely excited to see the kids and my colleagues." — Sam DePalo, Lead Guide, Alpha Fort Worth Texas
- Alpha is hiring. Alpha students finish all of their academics in two hours a day. That's not a typo, and it's the whole reason this job exists. Adaptive software handles the academic instruction. What it can't do is convince a seven-year-old that she's capable of more than she thinks — and that's the job. In this role, you'll be a guide, spending your day building confidence, focus, resilience, and the willingness to attempt hard things in children who are still learning to tie their shoes. You'll lead one K-3 cohort band, either Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd. Half your day is high-energy, hour-long workshops on life skills: public speaking, giving and taking feedback, holding attention. The other half is coaching, one-on-one and in small groups, using live learning data to keep every child moving toward an ambitious weekly goal. Students should walk out of your workshops more capable than they walked in, and out of your coaching sessions believing they can do more than they thought. You do not need a teaching certificate or a background in education. Some of our strongest people in this role came from youth sports, children's theater, camp leadership, and after-school programs like the ones you already run. What we're looking for is someone kids listen to and want to impress, and who can hold a high bar without ever making a child feel small. Unlike the after-school programs you may know, this isn't a few hours tacked onto the end of the academic day — it's a full-time, on-site role, five days a week, at an Alpha campus, and it's the core of how students spend their day. We recruit nationally, so job boards may display this opportunity in nearby cities that do not have a campus. Current Openings AZ - Scottsdale OK - Tulsa TN - Nashville TX - Austin Interested in a different Alpha campus? Apply anyway and name your preferred location — we'll route you to the right opening.
- What You Will Be Doing: bullet list:
- Run hour-long life-skills workshops where K-3 students practice communication, focus, and feedback out loud and on their feet — not from a seat, and not from a lecture.
- Coach students individually and in small groups, using Coachbot (Alpha's live learning-analytics tool) to see exactly who is off pace and intervene before a weekly goal slips out of reach.
- Assess life-skill mastery through Test2Pass, Alpha's demonstrate-it-to-pass standard, and keep coaching until a student can actually do the thing — participation isn't the bar.
- Shift your approach to the age in front of you: songs, movement, and storytelling for the youngest cohort; independence, self-tracking, and accountability for 2nd and 3rd graders.
- Build enough trust with each child that they'll attempt something hard in front of you and stay in it when it doesn't work the first time.
- Own your cohort's numbers. You'll see your students' progress on a dashboard every week, and so will everyone else.
- What You Won’t Be Doing:
- Teaching academic lessons from the front of a room. Adaptive software delivers the academics.
- Writing curriculum from scratch. You'll personalize and sharpen proven playbooks, not invent them.
- Supervising a silent computer lab. If students are working independently and you're standing still, something has gone wrong.
- Lowering the bar when a student struggles. You move the student toward the goal — never the goal toward the student.
- Grading papers, assigning homework, or fielding routine parent email.
- Working remotely or part-time. This is on-site, five days a week, on a campus.
- After School Program Leader Key Responsibilities: Build a cohort of K-3 students who love coming to school, hit ambitious learning goals week after week, and leave elementary school with the life skills — confidence, focus, communication, resilience — that will still be paying off twenty years from now.
- Basic Requirements:
- Willing and able to work on-site, five days a week, at one of the Alpha campuses listed in this posting.
- Bachelor's degree in any field. A teaching certificate is not required.
- At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4-9 — teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, children's theater, or a similar setting where kids showed up because of you.
- A track record of getting young children to reach a goal they didn't think they could reach, with specific examples you can walk us through.
- Experience leading structured activities for groups of young children and keeping 10-15 or more students engaged, focused, and participating.
- The ability to explain ideas clearly to young learners and redirect a group in real time when attention, behavior, or motivation slips.
- A track record of acting on feedback by changing your approach and improving the outcome.
- Comfortable being measured. You'll be accountable to weekly cohort data, and you'll use that data to decide where to spend your time.
- Willing to let AI handle the academic instruction while you focus on coaching, motivation, and life skills.
- The ability to be genuinely warm and completely immovable on expectations, at the same time.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.
- Nice-to-have Requirements:
- Experience in youth sports, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori, progressive education, or high-engagement after-school programs.
- A personal history of chasing something ambitious — in academics, athletics, the arts, or your career — and finding out what it takes.
- Storytelling or performance chops that hold a room of six-year-olds without you raising your voice.
- Specific examples of turning a reluctant or shy child into a confident, participating one.
- About Alpha: description.
- Working with us: This is a full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits (link). All roles are year-long positions. The compensation level for this role is $100,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic. Crossover Job Code: LJ-5149-US-Nashvill-AfterSchoolPro
We need to include sections: maybe About the role (intro), Responsibilities (What You Will Be Doing + What You Won’t Be Doing + Key Responsibilities?), Requirements (Basic Requirements), Qualifications (maybe Nice-to-have?), Skills (maybe combine?), Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
But we must only include sections when posting has real specific content. We have:
- About the role: we have description of role (the initial paragraphs). Could be "About the role". We'll include.
- Responsibilities: we have "What You Will Be Doing", "What You Won’t Be Doing", and "After School Program Leader Key Responsibilities". We'll combine into a Responsibilities section with bullet lists.
- Requirements: Basic Requirements (mandatory). We'll include as Requirements.
- Qualifications: Nice-to-have Requirements could be Qualifications or Skills. We'll treat as Qualifications.
- Skills: maybe we can extract skill items from responsibilities or requirements. But we could also combine skill items into Requirements or Qualifications. The instruction says use headings for sections like Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to include only if real content. We have specific skill items: ability to explain ideas clearly, redirect group, act on feedback, comfortable being measured, etc. Those are more like requirements. Could put them under Skills. But we already have Requirements. Might be redundant. Better to follow typical structure: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We'll put skill-like items under Requirements or Qualifications as appropriate.
We have Benefits: mention immediate access to benefits, year-long positions. No detail beyond that. Could include Benefits section with that info.
Pay: compensation $100,000 USD/year, payment period weekly.
Schedule: full-time, on-site, five days a week.
We also have location openings: AZ - Scottsdale, OK - Tulsa, TN - Nashville, TX - Austin. Could be part of About the role or maybe a separate section? Not required heading. Could be included in About the role paragraph.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO, legal, etc. We have legal authorization to work in US without visa sponsorship - that's a requirement, keep.
We must not repeat job title as heading. Not include Job ID/requisition numbers as headings; we can fold minor metadata into short p or drop it. The Crossover Job Code is minor metadata; we can drop or include in a p.
We must output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences.
We'll produce something like:
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title as heading. Remove boilerplate. Must preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the posting.
Key info:
- Quote from Sam DePalo: "I never have that feeling on Sunday night of dreading going to work. I'm genuinely excited to see the kids and my colleagues." — Sam DePalo, Lead Guide, Alpha Fort Worth Texas
- Alpha is hiring. Alpha students finish all of their academics in two hours a day. That's not a typo, and it's the whole reason this job exists. Adaptive software handles the academic instruction. What it can't do is convince a seven-year-old that she's capable of more than she thinks — and that's the job. In this role, you'll be a guide, spending your day building confidence, focus, resilience, and the willingness to attempt hard things in children who are still learning to tie their shoes. You'll lead one K-3 cohort band, either Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd. Half your day is high-energy, hour-long workshops on life skills: public speaking, giving and taking feedback, holding attention. The other half is coaching, one-on-one and in small groups, using live learning data to keep every child moving toward an ambitious weekly goal. Students should walk out of your workshops more capable than they walked in, and out of your coaching sessions believing they can do more than they thought. You do not need a teaching certificate or a background in education. Some of our strongest people in this role came from youth sports, children's theater, camp leadership, and after-school programs like the ones you already run. What we're looking for is someone kids listen to and want to impress, and who can hold a high bar without ever making a child feel small. Unlike the after-school programs you may know, this isn't a few hours tacked onto the end of the academic day — it's a full-time, on-site role, five days a week, at an Alpha campus, and it's the core of how students spend their day. We recruit nationally, so job boards may display this opportunity in nearby cities that do not have a campus. Current Openings AZ - Scottsdale OK - Tulsa TN - Nashville TX - Austin Interested in a different Alpha campus? Apply anyway and name your preferred location — we'll route you to the right opening.
- What You Will Be Doing: bullet list:
- Run hour-long life-skills workshops where K-3 students practice communication, focus, and feedback out loud and on their feet — not from a seat, and not from a lecture.
- Coach students individually and in small groups, using Coachbot (Alpha's live learning-analytics tool) to see exactly who is off pace and intervene before a weekly goal slips out of reach.
- Assess life-skill mastery through Test2Pass, Alpha's demonstrate-it-to-pass standard, and keep coaching until a student can actually do the thing — participation isn't the bar.
- Shift your approach to the age in front of you: songs, movement, and storytelling for the youngest cohort; independence, self-tracking, and accountability for 2nd and 3rd graders.
- Build enough trust with each child that they'll attempt something hard in front of you and stay in it when it doesn't work the first time.
- Own your cohort's numbers. You'll see your students' progress on a dashboard every week, and so will everyone else.
- What You Won’t Be Doing:
- Teaching academic lessons from the front of a room. Adaptive software delivers the academics.
- Writing curriculum from scratch. You'll personalize and sharpen proven playbooks, not invent them.
- Supervising a silent computer lab. If students are working independently and you're standing still, something has gone wrong.
- Lowering the bar when a student struggles. You move the student toward the goal — never the goal toward the student.
- Grading papers, assigning homework, or fielding routine parent email.
- Working remotely or part-time. This is on-site, five days a week, on a campus.
- After School Program Leader Key Responsibilities: Build a cohort of K-3 students who love coming to school, hit ambitious learning goals week after week, and leave elementary school with the life skills — confidence, focus, communication, resilience — that will still be paying off twenty years from now.
- Basic Requirements:
- Willing and able to work on-site, five days a week, at one of the Alpha campuses listed in this posting.
- Bachelor's degree in any field. A teaching certificate is not required.
- At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4-9 — teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, children's theater, or a similar setting where kids showed up because of you.
- A track record of getting young children to reach a goal they didn't think they could reach, with specific examples you can walk us through.
- Experience leading structured activities for groups of young children and keeping 10-15 or more students engaged, focused, and participating.
- The ability to explain ideas clearly to young learners and redirect a group in real time when attention, behavior, or motivation slips.
- A track record of acting on feedback by changing your approach and improving the outcome.
- Comfortable being measured. You'll be accountable to weekly cohort data, and you'll use that data to decide where to spend your time.
- Willing to let AI handle the academic instruction while you focus on coaching, motivation, and life skills.
- The ability to be genuinely warm and completely immovable on expectations, at the same time.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.
- Nice-to-have Requirements:
- Experience in youth sports, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori, progressive education, or high-engagement after-school programs.
- A personal history of chasing something ambitious — in academics, athletics, the arts, or your career — and finding out what it takes.
- Storytelling or performance chops that hold a room of six-year-olds without you raising your voice.
- Specific examples of turning a reluctant or shy child into a confident, participating one.
- About Alpha: description.
- Working with us: This is a full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits (link). All roles are year-long positions. The compensation level for this role is $100,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic. Crossover Job Code: LJ-5149-US-Nashvill-AfterSchoolPro
We need to include sections: maybe About the role (intro), Responsibilities (What You Will Be Doing + What You Won’t Be Doing + Key Responsibilities?), Requirements (Basic Requirements), Qualifications (maybe Nice-to-have?), Skills (maybe combine?), Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
But we must only include sections when posting has real specific content. We have:
- About the role: we have description of role (the initial paragraphs). Could be "About the role". We'll include.
- Responsibilities: we have "What You Will Be Doing", "What You Won’t Be Doing", and "After School Program Leader Key Responsibilities". We'll combine into a Responsibilities section with bullet lists.
- Requirements: Basic Requirements (mandatory). We'll include as Requirements.
- Qualifications: Nice-to-have Requirements could be Qualifications or Skills. We'll treat as Qualifications.
- Skills: maybe we can extract skill items from responsibilities or requirements. But we could also combine skill items into Requirements or Qualifications. The instruction says use headings for sections like Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to include only if real content. We have specific skill items: ability to explain ideas clearly, redirect group, act on feedback, comfortable being measured, etc. Those are more like requirements. Could put them under Skills. But we already have Requirements. Might be redundant. Better to follow typical structure: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We'll put skill-like items under Requirements or Qualifications as appropriate.
We have Benefits: mention immediate access to benefits, year-long positions. No detail beyond that. Could include Benefits section with that info.
Pay: compensation $100,000 USD/year, payment period weekly.
Schedule: full-time, on-site, five days a week.
We also have location openings: AZ - Scottsdale, OK - Tulsa, TN - Nashville, TX - Austin. Could be part of About the role or maybe a separate section? Not required heading. Could be included in About the role paragraph.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO, legal, etc. We have legal authorization to work in US without visa sponsorship - that's a requirement, keep.
We must not repeat job title as heading. Not include Job ID/requisition numbers as headings; we can fold minor metadata into short p or drop it. The Crossover Job Code is minor metadata; we can drop or include in a p.
We must output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences.
We'll produce something like:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements
- ... ...
Qualifications
- ... ...
Benefits
...
Pay
...
Schedule
...
We need to ensure we preserve all substantive information. Let's extract. About the role paragraph: combine the initial description plus quote and location openings. Quote: "I never have that feeling on Sunday night of dreading going to work. I'm genuinely excited to see the kids and my colleagues." — Sam DePalo, Lead Guide, Alpha Fort Worth Texas Then description: Alpha is hiring. Alpha students finish all of their academics in two hours a day. That's not a typo, and it's the whole reason this job exists. Adaptive software handles the academic instruction. What it can't do is convince a seven-year-old that she's capable of more than she thinks — and that's the job. In this role, you'll be a guide, spending your day building confidence, focus, resilience, and the willingness to attempt hard things in children who are still learning to tie their shoes. You'll lead one K-3 cohort band, either Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd. Half your day is high-energy, hour-long workshops on life skills: public speaking, giving and taking feedback, holding attention. The other half is coaching, one-on-one and in small groups, using live learning data to keep every child moving toward an ambitious weekly goal. Students should walk out of your workshops more capable than they walked in, and out of your coaching sessions believing they can do more than they thought. You do not need a teaching certificate or a background in education. Some of our strongest people in this role came from youth sports, children's theater, camp leadership, and after-school programs like the ones you already run. What we're looking for is someone kids listen to and want to impress, and who can hold a high bar without ever making a child feel small. Unlike the after-school programs you may know, this isn't a few hours tacked onto the end of the academic day — it's a full-time, on-site role, five days a week, at an Alpha campus, and it's the core of how students spend their day. We recruit nationally, so job boards may display this opportunity in nearby cities that do not have a campus. Current Openings AZ - Scottsdale OK - Tulsa TN - Nashville TX - Austin Interested in a different Alpha campus? Apply anyway and name your preferred location — we'll route you to the right opening. We'll put that in amaybe multiple