Associate, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

About the role

This is not a teaching position. Your role is to motivate. If a student reaches 99% of their goal and you're tempted to call it complete, you're missing the point. That standard might make you uncomfortable—if so, this isn't the right fit. But if you light up at the idea of holding that bar because it demonstrates your belief in what students can achieve, read on.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, adapting existing content and creating new sessions when you identify gaps
• Conducting daily 1:1 and small-group motivation sessions that drive every student to 100% completion of their weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your individual relationship with each student to overcome resistance
• Administering Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill, then coaching students who fall short until they achieve mastery
• Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and physical activity to 8th graders needing direct conversation and accountability
• Serving as the adult who maintains standards and the adult students want to confide in; warmth creates the permission to push, and pushing demonstrates your belief in their potential

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering whiteboard lectures; academic instruction is embedded in the apps, not your teaching
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; you animate an existing playbook with energy and narrative skill
• Passively supervising students at computers; motivation in this model is active, personal, and sustained
• Reducing a weekly goal to help a student reach it; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the target
• Grading homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or managing parent communications; Campus Leads handle parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks don't exist in this model

Basic Requirements

• Able to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX (Central, South, or The Woodlands); Park City, UT - relocation assistance provided
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• Minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (classroom teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
• A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: the goal itself, your actions, and the result
• Comfort allowing AI to manage instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Daily usage of generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
• Legal authorization to work in the US without requiring visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto campus)

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, drama, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward defined goals
• Personal track record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), making high standards for others a consistent behavior rather than an adopted stance
• Storytelling ability and stage presence capable of engaging a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without volume escalation
• Promised success converting disengaged or resistant students into engaged contributors

About Alpha

Join the team building school around student growth Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills. Roles with real student impact: Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members. Education work that pays like it matters: Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience. A culture built for builders: Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. It’s for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it. Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career. There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!

Working with us

This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.