Life Skills Coach, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

About Alpha

Alpha is reimagining the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills. It's a non-traditional school where students master a full day of academics in about two hours through adaptive software—no lectures, no textbooks.

About the Role

As a Life Skills Coach, your job is the part technology can't do: coaching Pre-K through 8th graders on life skills like public speaking, focus, and giving and receiving feedback. Half your day, you run hands-on workshops using structured playbooks and storytelling. The other half, you sit with students 1:1 or in small groups, review their progress in adaptive learning apps through Coachbot analytics, and push them to hit 100% of their weekly goals. Students prove mastery through Test2Pass assessments, not participation grades.

In year one, you own a cohort of students and master Alpha's playbook: life skill workshops, motivation sessions, mastery-based assessments. As you prove you can hold every student to 100% of their goals while keeping satisfaction scores above 90%, the path opens to Lead Guide, where you coach other Guides while continuing to work directly with students.

What You Will Be Doing

• Delivering one-hour life skill workshops to Pre-K–8 students on public speaking, focus, collaboration, and giving and receiving feedback (hands-on and project-based)
• Running daily 1:1 and small-group motivation sessions where you review each student's progress in adaptive learning apps (using Coachbot analytics), set goals, and push them to hit 100% of their weekly targets
• Administering and evaluating Test2Pass assessments to confirm students have truly mastered each life skill, not just participated
• Adapting your coaching style across a wide age range, from Pre-K students who need high energy and movement to 8th graders who need real talk and accountability
• Building genuine relationships with each student so they trust you enough to accept coaching through resistance, distraction, and self-doubt

What You Won't Be Doing

• Lecturing or delivering traditional academic instruction (students learn core subjects through adaptive apps, not from you)
• Writing lesson plans or curriculum from scratch (Alpha provides life skills playbooks; your job is to bring them to life with energy and storytelling)
• Managing parent relationships or school administration (Campus Leads own those responsibilities; you stay focused on your students)
• Grading homework or managing standardized test prep (none of that exists here)
• Working in isolation (you're part of a campus team with Lead Guides, Campus Leads, and peers who share feedback and hold each other accountable)

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure every student in your cohort loves school, masters essential life skills, and hits 100% of their academic goals through adaptive learning software

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any field
• 3+ years of experience working directly with Pre-K–8 students through life skills coaching, counseling, or youth program leadership
• A track record of coaching individual Pre-K–8 students toward ambitious behavioral, developmental, or extracurricular goals, with concrete examples of the actions you took and the results achieved
• Ability to lead engaging live workshops and communicate with energy, clarity, and presence across the Pre-K–8 age range
• Comfort motivating resistant students, holding ambitious standards, and working in a non-traditional, coaching-first school model rather than delivering traditional academic instruction
• Willing to work in-person at Alpha's Central Houston, South Houston, or The Woodlands campus (relocation support provided)
• Legal right to work in the United States without visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience in youth athletics coaching, camp leadership, or after-school program work where you were directly responsible for motivating kids to hit specific goals
• Track record of high personal achievement (academic honors, competitive athletics, or leadership roles that required sustained excellence)
• Natural storytelling ability: you can hold a room of 12-year-olds' attention for an hour without raising your voice
• Experience motivating disengaged or resistant students and turning them into active participants

Pay

$100,000 salary, paid weekly.

Benefits

Day-one health, dental, and vision benefits.

Schedule

Full-time, W2 employee position. All roles are year-long positions.