Elementary Student Success Coach, Alpha - $100,000/year USD
About the role
Alpha is hiring Elementary Student Success Coaches to build a cohort of K-3 students who love coming to school, hit ambitious learning goals week after week, and leave elementary school with the life skills — confidence, focus, communication, resilience — that will still be paying off twenty years from now.
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.
Requirements
- On-site availability is required — five days a week at one of the Alpha campuses listed in this posting.
- A 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.
- The ability to be genuinely warm and completely immovable on expectations, at the same time.
- Comfortable being measured. You'll be accountable to weekly cohort data, and you'll use that data to decide where to spend your time.
- 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.
Qualifications
On-site availability is required — five days a week at one of the Alpha campuses listed in this posting.
A 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.
The ability to be genuinely warm and completely immovable on expectations, at the same time.
Comfortable being measured. You'll be accountable to weekly cohort data, and you'll use that data to decide where to spend your time.
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.
Skills
The ability to explain ideas clearly to young learners and redirect a group in real time when attention, behavior, or motivation slips.
The ability to be genuinely warm and completely immovable on expectations, at the same time.
Comfortable being measured. You'll be accountable to weekly cohort data, and you'll use that data to decide where to spend your time.
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.
Benefits
Immediate access to benefits (https://support.crossover.com/article/7581-w2-benefits-u-s-paychex-paid-only).
Pay
$100,000 USD/year.
Schedule
Full-time, on-site role, five days a week, at an Alpha campus.