Education Program Manager, Alpha - $200,000/year USD

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. Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members. The culture is fast-moving, ambitious, and student-focused—ideal for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it. This is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career.

About the role

The most effective leaders understand that success is not defined by individual accomplishments, but by the achievements of those they develop and support. As a Lead Guide, you will assemble and develop the team that executes Alpha’s model—mentoring Guides, cultivating leaders, and establishing an environment where students routinely surpass expectations. This is not a traditional instructional-coaching or classroom-teaching role; instead, your work centers on building a culture of excellence through Guide coaching, facilitating impactful life-skills workshops, and inspiring students to pursue ambitious goals. Performance is assessed based on the quality of the student experience, your team’s outcomes, and your capacity to uphold rigorous standards while motivating others to reach them.

Alpha is constructing the world’s premier K-12 experience, demanding leaders who have demonstrated the ability to elevate the performance of others, make evidence-based decisions, and champion innovative approaches instead of defending legacy practices.

This position is available at select Alpha campuses: Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Miami, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Boston, MA; Raleigh, NC; New York City, NY; Orange County, CA; and Santa Barbara, CA. Relocation support is available for candidates open to moving to one of these markets. Exceptional candidates from other regions are also welcome to apply; as Alpha grows, outstanding leaders are frequently aligned with opportunities throughout the expanding campus network.

Responsibilities

• Mentor Guides to reliably deliver outstanding student experiences while upholding Alpha’s rigorous standards.
• Facilitate dynamic life-skills workshops that cultivate communication, leadership, focus, and other essential real-world competencies for K-12 students.
• Inspire students to pursue ambitious learning objectives and maximize their progress in self-directed academic programs.
• Leverage data, observation, and coaching dialogues to enhance Guide effectiveness and student results.
• Support the launch and establishment of new Alpha campuses by fostering a culture grounded in excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Guarantee that every student consistently receives Alpha’s three promises by developing high-performing Guides, facilitating compelling life-skills experiences, and upholding rigorous standards for student achievement.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering traditional academic instruction or subject-specific lectures.
• Developing lesson plans or designing curriculum materials.
• Compromising standards to create an illusion of success rather than facilitating genuine mastery.
• Leading a team remotely from an office without direct, regular coaching engagement with students and Guides.
• Defending outdated methods simply because they represent established practice.

Requirements

• Willingness to work on-site at an Alpha campus (locations: Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Miami, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Boston, MA; Raleigh, NC; New York City, NY; Orange County, CA; Santa Barbara, CA).
• Bachelor’s degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or a related field; Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in education, coaching, learning and development, or a related leadership capacity.
• Proven experience leading and developing teams of five or more individuals, including responsibility for hiring and performance-based termination decisions.
• Verified success leveraging data to drive performance enhancements.
• Experience working with children ages 5-14 in an educational, coaching, or developmental context.
• Experience establishing or launching a new team, program, business, school, or initiative, with readiness to help open a new campus from inception.
• Willingness to operate in a school model that rejects traditional lecture-based pedagogy.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States.

Nice-to-have Qualifications

• Experience coaching youth through athletics, debate, camps, or extracurricular activities.
• Outstanding public speaking and storytelling abilities.
• A proven record of attaining high levels of academic, professional, or athletic achievement.
• Experience driving teams toward ambitious objectives while sustaining high accountability.
• A commitment to challenging traditional education and contributing to a new model for K-12 learning.

Pay

The compensation level for this role is $200,000 USD per year, paid weekly.

Schedule

This is a full-time, year-long W2 employee position.

Benefits

Immediate access to benefits (details available at Crossover Benefits).