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

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life skills workshops for K-8 student groups, coaching skills including public speaking, teamwork, concentration, and feedback through structured exercises and narrative techniques
• Conducting 1:1 and small-group motivation sessions where you establish goals with students, monitor their advancement in academic applications, and provide intervention when they underperform
• Modifying your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum: your methods for a kindergartner differ entirely from your approach with a 13-year-old
• Delivering Test2Pass assessments to verify students have genuinely mastered the life skills you've coached
• Leveraging student profiles, performance data, and coachbot analytics to understand precisely where each student stands before every interaction

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any field
• 3+ years of direct experience working with K-8 students
• Demonstrated history of motivating or coaching K-8 students toward goals exceeding baseline expectations, with at least one concrete example you can discuss in detail (the objective, your actions, the result)
• Willing to work on-site in Austin, TX (relocation assistance provided)
• Comfortable operating in a non-traditional learning environment centered on motivation and engagement rather than instruction
• Nice-to-have: Background coaching or mentoring in youth sports, competitive academic settings, or structured enrichment programs; Familiarity with behavioral motivation approaches such as goal-setting frameworks, incentive structures, or accountability systems; Proven ability to connect with disengaged or resistant young students and successfully turn them around; Experience leading group sessions for mixed-age groups of children

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background coaching or mentoring in youth sports, competitive academic settings, or structured enrichment programs
• Familiarity with behavioral motivation approaches such as goal-setting frameworks, incentive structures, or accountability systems
• Proven ability to connect with disengaged or resistant young students and successfully turn them around
• Experience leading group sessions for mixed-age groups of children

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. 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.

Working with us

This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.