Career Coach, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

About the role

This is not a teaching position. This is about driving motivation. The most meaningful support you can offer a student who reaches 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation unsettles you, this role is not a fit. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards is how you communicate belief in a student's potential, continue reading.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions for K-8 groups focused on public speaking, concentration, feedback culture, and other transferable competencies, customizing the established framework and creating new modules when you identify unmet needs
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation meetings that drive every student to 100% completion of weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot performance data, Alpha's motivational infrastructure (campus currency, competitive rankings), and your personal rapport with each student to overcome resistance
• Delivering the Test2Pass mastery-based evaluation for each life skill, then coaching students who fall short until they achieve passing standards
• Adjusting your approach across a broad developmental spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high-energy and kinesthetic engagement to eighth graders needing candid dialogue and personal accountability
• Serving as the adult who maintains rigorous expectations and the adult students actively seek out; relational warmth creates the foundation for demanding standards, and those demands signal your confidence in their capacity

Requirements

• Available to work on-site 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 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (classroom instruction, athletic coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program management)
• A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging objective: the objective itself, your actions, and the result
• Comfort with AI managing instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development
• Regular use of generative AI platforms (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto location)

Qualifications

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate programs, camp leadership, theater, or extracurricular initiatives where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward measurable outcomes
• Demonstrated personal record of exceptional performance (academic, athletic, or professional), such that maintaining rigorous standards for others reflects consistent practice, not adopted persona
• Narrative ability and commanding presence sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without escalating volume
• Proven success converting disengaged or reluctant students into motivated, active contributors

Benefits

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage begins day one

Pay

$100,000 annual W2 compensation, disbursed weekly

Schedule

Full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position