Early Childhood Educator, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

About the role

At Alpha, students in grades K–3 complete academic work through AI-powered applications over two hours each day. Your role is to lead a single cohort band — either Kindergarten and 1st grade (K-1) or 2nd and 3rd grade (2-3) — and facilitate one-hour life-skills workshops and 1:1 or small group coaching sessions to ensure every student progresses toward their weekly app targets.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate one-hour life-skills workshops on topics such as public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, customizing the playbook for your cohort.
• Conduct daily 1:1 and small-group coaching sessions to keep students progressing toward weekly app targets using Coachbot analytics and Alpha's incentive structures.
• Deliver the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based assessment, for each life skill, and provide coaching until mastery is achieved.
• Motivate kindergarteners at their developmental level with songs, stories, movement, and playfulness while holding second and third graders accountable to concrete, measurable standards.
• Be the warm adult children are excited to see at drop-off and the adult who will not permit them to settle for less than their best.

Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in San Diego, Orange County, Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Monica, South Bay (LA), Greenwich, CT, Boca Raton, Miami Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Chicago, IL, or Boston, MA (relocation support provided).
• Bachelor's degree in any subject.
• At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4 to 9 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership).
• A specific example of motivating a young child to a hard goal.
• Willingness to let AI handle the instructional content while focusing on motivation and life-skills coaching.
• Willingness to hold high standards with students even when they push back.
• Likely to be legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience in youth athletics coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you were directly responsible for motivating young kids toward specific goals.
• Personal history of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional).
• Natural performer's presence with little kids.
• Track record of turning shy or resistant little kids into confident, active participants.