Early Childhood Teacher, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

About the role

$100,000 annual W2 salary with weekly pay; health, dental, and vision coverage begins day one
On-site role at an Alpha school in Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation assistance available)
You are not delivering lessons. You are igniting drive.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions for groups of 10-15 students in grades K-3, addressing public speaking, concentration, feedback, and other foundational competencies
• Cooking daily individual and small-group coaching conversations that maintain progress toward weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot data, Alpha's motivational tools (campus currency, leaderboards), and the rapport you establish with each student
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's competency-based evaluation) for each life skill, then coaching students who do not pass until mastery is achieved
• Engaging kindergarteners through songs, narratives, physical activity, and playfulness, while maintaining rigorous, quantifiable expectations for second and third graders
• Serving as the encouraging adult children are excited to see at arrival AND the adult who will not accept minimal effort

Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation support provided)
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4 to 9 (early-elementary instruction, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program facilitation)
• A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a young child toward a challenging objective: the objective itself, your actions, and the result
• Able to participate in a paid training program at our Austin, TX campus
• Comfortable allowing AI to deliver instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development
• Authorized to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship

Qualifications

• Background in youth sports instruction, children's theater, camp facilitation, Montessori or progressive early education, or after-school programming where you held direct accountability for motivating young children toward defined objectives
• Innate performer's energy with young children—the capacity to hold a room of kindergarteners through vocal dynamics, humor, and physical engagement
• Demonstrated success transforming reserved or reluctant young learners into confident, engaged contributors

Skills

• Experience as an early-elementary educator who excelled at circle-time activities, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports instructor, a children's theater performer, or anyone capable of commanding a room of kindergarteners through vocal presence, play, and sheer enthusiasm

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision coverage begins day one

Pay

$100,000 annual W2 salary with weekly pay

Schedule

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