Camp Director, Alpha - $200,000/year USD

About the role

On-site at an Alpha campus in New York City, NY; Miami, FL; or San Francisco, CA — we provide relocation assistance.
Full-time position
Traditional elementary schools reduce expectations when children face difficulty. You do the opposite.

Responsibilities

• Coaching both Guides and students through performance metrics, classroom observation, and candid feedback, while maintaining accountability to quantifiable objectives
• Leading one-hour live sessions for K-3 students focused on life skills including public speaking, concentration, teamwork, resilience, accountability, and feedback exchange
• Conducting individual and small-group sessions that link each child's personal goals and interests to tangible academic advancement
• Developing and improving playbooks that convert your most effective practices into replicable systems executable by other Guides
• Training Guides on these playbooks and demonstrating facilitation excellence to maintain standards during team expansion

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Providing academic instruction or traditional lecturing; adaptive technology teaches content while you focus on coaching individuals
• Reducing expectations in response to student difficulties
• Managing from afar as instructional coaches and principals typically do; you remain directly embedded with your cohort each day
• Overseeing campus-wide budget, operations, and parent relations; a Campus Lead handles these responsibilities so you concentrate on student and Guide results
• Advocating for traditional pedagogical approaches or adhering to standard K-12 curriculum frameworks

Key Responsibilities

Fulfill Alpha's three commitments to every K-3 student: they develop a love for school, achieve learning at twice the standard pace, and cultivate outstanding life skills and independence.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in New York City, NY; Miami, FL; or San Francisco, CA; we provide relocation assistance
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, Organizational Leadership, Child Development, or related discipline
• Minimum 5 years of experience working with elementary-aged children (approximately ages 5 to 9)
• Demonstrated leadership of a team comprising 5 or more individuals, with authority to make hiring and performance-based termination decisions
• Proven experience building, launching, or substantially scaling a program, team, school, or initiative from inception rather than managing an established operation
• Comfortable operating in an educational environment that rejects conventional teaching methodologies
• Legal authorization to work in the United States

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Master's degree in a relevant discipline
• Demonstrated history leveraging metrics, dashboards, or analytics to identify issues and achieve measurable improvements
• Proven experience coaching or managing other adults toward quantifiable results rather than solely performing tasks independently
• Background in youth development, camp leadership, competitive athletics coaching, tutoring, or enrichment programs where motivation played a central role
• Proven ability and confidence facilitating or presenting to groups of young children

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.

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 $100 USD/hour, which equates to $200,000 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.

Crossover Job Code

LJ-5814-US-Stamford-CampDirector.003