Learning Coach, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

On-site in Springfield, MA (relocation assistance available).

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.

About the Role

Alpha operates outside conventional school models. Students complete a full academic day in roughly two hours via adaptive software. No traditional instruction. No textbooks. Your responsibility is what technology cannot replicate: guiding Pre-K through 8th grade students in life competencies such as public speaking, sustained attention, and feedback exchange. You'll spend half your day facilitating structured, hands-on workshops using prepared playbooks and narrative techniques. The remaining time, you'll work individually or in small groups, analyzing student progress through Coachbot analytics within adaptive platforms, ensuring they achieve 100% of weekly objectives. Mastery is demonstrated through Test2Pass assessments, not effort-based grading.

This is a selective position. Your first year centers on mastering the system: workshop delivery, individual coaching, mastery verification, and consistently holding every student to complete goal attainment. Succeed at this, and advancement to Lead Guide becomes available. You must combine warmth with uncompromising standards.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating one-hour life competency workshops covering public speaking, sustained focus, teamwork, and feedback skills, adjusting tone and method for Pre-K through 8th grade learners.
• Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching sessions to review each student's adaptive learning data via Coachbot analytics, establish objectives, and ensure 100% weekly target completion.
• Overseeing and scoring Test2Pass assessments to verify genuine mastery of life skills rather than surface-level engagement.
• Intervening strategically when students experience academic setbacks or disengagement—diagnosing underlying issues and designing corrective action plans.
• Cultivating authentic connections with every student to establish the trust required for coaching through frustration, distraction, and uncertainty.
• Guarantee that every student in your group develops a love for school, achieves mastery in critical life skills, and completes 100% of their academic objectives through adaptive learning technology.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Providing traditional classroom lectures or direct academic teaching (core subjects are delivered through adaptive platforms, not by you).
• Creating original curriculum or lesson frameworks (Alpha supplies structured life skills playbooks; your role is executing them with energy and narrative skill).
• Handling parent communications or administrative duties (Campus Leads manage those functions; your focus remains on students).
• Assigning or evaluating homework, or preparing students for standardized exams (these elements are absent from Alpha's model).
• Operating independently (you function within a campus team alongside Lead Guides, Campus Leads, and colleagues who provide mutual accountability and feedback).

Requirements

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any discipline.
• 3+ years of direct experience with Pre-K–8 students (in teaching, coaching, counseling, or youth program leadership roles).
• Demonstrated success motivating or coaching Pre-K–8 students toward academic, behavioral, athletic, or extracurricular objectives, with at least one concrete example you can articulate (including the objective, your actions, and the result).
• Comfort with a coaching-focused model where all core academic instruction occurs through the learning platform. Your function is motivation and guidance, not subject-matter teaching.
• Regular use of generative AI platforms (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude).
• Availability to work on-site at Alpha's Springfield, MA location.
• Authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, camp direction, or after-school programming where you held direct accountability for student goal achievement.
• History of personal achievement (academic distinction, competitive sports, or leadership positions demanding consistent high performance).
• Innate narrative skill: you can maintain Pre-K–8 students' focus for an hour without volume escalation.
• Proven success re-engaging disengaged or reluctant students and converting them into active learners.
• Experience supporting students who receive special education services.

Pay

$100,000 annual salary, disbursed weekly.

Benefits

• Full health, dental, and vision coverage effective immediately.
• This is a full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits.