Elementary Student Success Coach, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

About the role

Alpha students finish all of their academics in two hours a day. Adaptive software handles the academic instruction. What it can't do is convince a seven-year-old that she's capable of more than she thinks — and that's the job. In this role, you'll be a guide, spending your day building confidence, focus, resilience, and the willingness to attempt hard things in children who are still learning to tie their shoes. You'll lead one K-3 cohort band, either Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd.

Responsibilities

• Run hour-long life-skills workshops where K-3 students practice communication, focus, and feedback out loud and on their feet — not from a seat, and not from a lecture.
• Coach students individually and in small groups, using Coachbot (Alpha's live learning-analytics tool) to see exactly who is off pace and intervene before a weekly goal slips out of reach.
• Assess life-skill mastery through Test2Pass, Alpha's demonstrate-it-to-pass standard, and keep coaching until a student can actually do the thing — participation isn't the bar.
• Shift your approach to the age in front of you: songs, movement, and storytelling for the youngest cohort; independence, self-tracking, and accountability for 2nd and 3rd graders.
• Build enough trust with each child that they'll attempt something hard in front of you and stay in it when it doesn't work the first time.
• Own your cohort's numbers. You'll see your students' progress on a dashboard every week, and so will everyone else.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Teaching academic lessons from the front of a room. Adaptive software delivers the academics.
• Writing curriculum from scratch. You'll personalize and sharpen proven playbooks, not invent them.
• Supervising a silent computer lab. If students are working independently and you're standing still, something has gone wrong.
• Lowering the bar when a student struggles. You move the student toward the goal — never the goal toward the student.
• Grading papers, assigning homework, or fielding routine parent email.
• Working remotely or part-time. This is on-site, five days a week, on a campus.

Basic Requirements

• On-site availability is required — five days a week at one of the Alpha campuses listed in this posting.
• Bachelor's degree in any field. A teaching certificate is not required.
• At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4-9 — teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, children's theater, or a similar setting where kids showed up because of you.
• A track record of getting young children to reach a goal they didn't think they could reach, with specific examples you can walk us through.
• Experience leading structured activities for groups of young children and keeping 10-15 or more students engaged, focused, and participating.
• The ability to explain ideas clearly to young learners and redirect a group in real time when attention, behavior, or motivation slips.
• A track record of acting on feedback by changing your approach and improving the outcome.
• Comfortable being measured. You'll be accountable to weekly cohort data, and you'll use that data to decide where to spend your time.
• Willing to let AI handle the academic instruction while you focus on coaching, motivation, and life skills.
• The ability to be genuinely warm and completely immovable on expectations, at the same time.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience in youth sports, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori, progressive education, or high-engagement after-school programs.
• A personal history of chasing something ambitious — in academics, athletics, the arts, or your career — and finding out what it takes.
• Storytelling or performance chops that hold a room of six-year-olds without you raising your voice.
• Specific examples of turning a reluctant or shy child into a confident, participating one.

About Alpha

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.

Pay

The compensation level for this role is $100,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly.