Counselor, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

About the role

This is not a teaching position. It is a motivation position. The most meaningful support you can offer a child who reaches 99% of their target is to insist they finish. If that principle feels uncomfortable, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high expectations signals belief in a student's capacity, continue reading.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational competencies—modifying the standard playbook and creating new sessions when you identify content gaps
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions to ensure every student reaches 100% of their weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your relationship with each child to overcome resistance
• Delivering the Test2Pass—Alpha's mastery-based assessment—for each life skill, then coaching students who fall short until they achieve passing performance
• Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad developmental spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and kinesthetic engagement to eighth graders needing candid conversation and accountability
• Serving as the adult who upholds rigorous standards and simultaneously earns students' trust; warmth creates the relational capital to challenge, and challenge demonstrates your confidence in their potential

Requirements

• Available for in-person work 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 support offered
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• Minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (classroom instruction, coaching, tutoring, camp leadership, 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)
• Authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto location)

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp direction, theater, or after-school programming where you held direct accountability for driving kids toward measurable outcomes
• Demonstrated record of high personal achievement (academic, athletic, or career-based) that reflects a sustained commitment to rigorous standards rather than performative posturing
• Narrative and presentation skills sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without volume escalation
• History of converting disengaged or resistant learners into committed participants

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.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering whiteboard-based instruction; academic content is embedded in the applications, not delivered by you
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; you animate an established playbook through dynamic facilitation and narrative
• Passively monitoring students on computers; motivation in this model is direct, relational, and persistent
• Reducing a weekly target to enable a student to meet it; when a child falls behind, the intervention addresses the child's effort, not the standard
• Counseling students on academic subjects; Campus Leads handle family communication, and the other tasks do not exist in this environment

Benefits

• Full health, dental, and vision coverage begins day one
• Immediate availability 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