Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

Tell Us About the Role

Alpha is seeking individuals to join our team as guides, focusing on supporting K-8 students through structured workshops and motivational sessions. The role involves facilitating high-impact workshops on essential skills such as communication, concentration, and constructive critique, and driving students towards complete goal achievement.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating one-hour structured workshops on essential skills for K-8 cohorts, adhering to Alpha's established playbook.
• Conducting motivation sessions leveraging student data and Alpha's incentive architecture to achieve 100% goal attainment across your cohort.
• Developing Guides in program adherence and standards maintenance, ensuring each coaching interaction yields concrete next steps.
• Managing your own student cohort while simultaneously advancing other Guides' capabilities.
• Maintaining direct responsibility for your own cohort, ensuring continuous refinement of the competencies you teach others.
• Maintaining the standard and transforming the student experience.

Requirements

• Available to work on-site in Atlanta, GA; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Austin, TX; Keller (Fort Worth), TX; The Woodlands (Houston), TX (relocation assistance available).
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or related discipline.
• 5+ years professional experience in education, learning and development, coaching, youth leadership, or comparable domain.
• Demonstrated history of managing a team of 5 or more adults, including responsibility for hiring and performance-based termination decisions.
• Hands-on experience working with children aged 5-14 in educational or developmental contexts.
• Experience building, launching, or substantially scaling a program, team, business, school, or initiative from inception.
• Established practice of using data and metrics to establish weekly objectives and inform decisions, beyond simply reporting outcomes.

Basic Requirements

• Legal authorization to work in the United States or Canada.

Nice-to-Have Requirements

• Master's degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or related field.
• Experience coaching athletics, leading outdoor or experiential programs, overseeing camps, or managing youth ministry at a scale requiring cohort management and outcome measurement.
• Transitioned from classroom instruction to program development or operations roles: EdTech, tutoring enterprises, youth-focused nonprofits, or school intervention teams.
• Early-career pattern of exceptional individual performance — academically, athletically, or professionally — prior to leadership roles.
• Conviction that traditional education systems are fundamentally flawed and personal commitment to systemic reform.

About Alpha

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.

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 $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. For more details, consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs.