Education Coach, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

On-site at an Alpha K-8 campus in Beverly Hills, CA; Piedmont, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Raleigh, NC; or Portland, OR (relocation assistance available).

About the role

This is a motivation role, not a teaching position. The most caring thing you can do for 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 you know that holding the standard is how you show a student you believe in their ability to meet it—read on.

At Alpha, students complete their academic work through AI-powered applications. No lectures. No textbooks. Approximately 60% of your week is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and how to give and receive meaningful feedback. Around 30% of your time is spent with students individually or in small groups, reviewing their progress via Coachbot analytics and driving each one toward their weekly app targets. The remaining 10% involves data analysis that informs your coaching strategy for the week ahead. You will not follow a rigid script; workshops provide a foundation, and the strongest performers in this role customize them and create new ones when needed.

Success in a semester means that at least 90% of your cohort meets their weekly app goals, demonstrates measurable improvement in life skills on Test2Pass, and rates their experience with you at 4/5 or higher. Falling short on any of these three measures means the role has not been fulfilled. As you demonstrate your ability to maintain standards, opportunities open to Lead Guide—mentoring newer Guides while continuing to lead a cohort—and eventually to Campus Lead, where you oversee a school and manage parent engagement.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts on topics including public speaking, focus, giving and receiving feedback, and other foundational skills, customizing the existing framework and creating new sessions when you identify a need
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions that drive every student toward their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your personal connection with each student to overcome resistance
• Administering Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who do not achieve passing until they succeed
• Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and physical activity to 8th graders needing direct conversation and accountability
• Analyzing weekly cohort performance data in Coachbot, pinpointing students who are falling behind, and modifying your coaching methods for the next week based on the data insights

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering content at a whiteboard; academic teaching is embedded in the apps, not your responsibility
• Creating an entire curriculum from scratch; you begin with an established playbook and personalize it with your own style and narrative
• Passively monitoring students on computers; motivation in this role is active, individualized, and persistent
• Working through bureaucratic processes to secure resources for students in need; if a student requires additional coaching time, you decide and implement the same day
• Grading assignments, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent correspondence; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist here

Requirements

• Able to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Beverly Hills, CA; Piedmont, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Raleigh, NC; or Portland, OR (relocation assistance available)
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• Minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (classroom instruction, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program management)
• A concrete example you can describe of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: the goal itself, your actions, and the result
• Comfort allowing AI to manage instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Legal authorization to work in the US without requiring visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward defined objectives
• Personal record of exceptional achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), demonstrating that holding others to rigorous standards is natural for you, not performative
• Storytelling ability and stage presence sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
• Demonstrated success converting disengaged or resistant students into active, willing 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.

Pay

$120,000/year W2 salary, paid weekly.

Benefits

Health, dental, and vision benefits from day one.

Schedule

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