Reading Interventionist, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

On-site at an Alpha campus in Austin, TX or Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ — relocation assistance available.

About the role

When a child struggles, most elementary schools lower their standards. You do the opposite. You believe six-year-olds are capable of far more than traditional classrooms demand, and you have used data to demonstrate this repeatedly. Alpha operates on a two-hour learning model. Adaptive applications handle academic instruction in the morning, freeing your schedule for the work that genuinely transforms a child's trajectory: motivation, life skills, coaching, and accountability. You directly own a cohort of K-3 students while coaching the Guides (Alpha's term for the adults who inspire and coach the children) who manage their daily progress. You remain hands-on every day rather than supervising from an office.

A typical day alternates among three core activities. You review performance data and Coachbot analytics to identify which students and Guides are falling behind. You conduct coaching conversations that send people away with concrete next steps rather than vague encouragement. And you command the attention of a room full of five- to nine-year-olds through workshops on public speaking, focus, or giving and receiving feedback. As you identify what works, you document it. The playbooks you create become the standard every other Guide implements, so your influence expands from one cohort to the entire level. Demonstrating you can scale that excellence is how you advance into greater leadership here.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate one-hour live workshops for K-3 students on life skills including public speaking, focus, collaboration, resilience, accountability, and giving and receiving feedback
• Coach Guides and students using performance data, classroom observation, and direct feedback, then hold both accountable to measurable goals
• Conduct individual and small-group motivation sessions that link each child's goals and interests to tangible academic progress
• Create and refine playbooks that convert your best practices into repeatable systems other Guides can execute consistently
• Train Guides on those playbooks and model excellence in facilitation so standards remain consistent as the team expands
• Deliver Alpha's three promises to every K-3 student: they love school, learn twice as fast, and build exceptional life skills and independence

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering academic instruction or lecturing from the front of the room; adaptive apps teach the content while you coach the people
• Lowering expectations when a student struggles
• Managing from a distance the way instructional coaches and principals do; you remain embedded with your own cohort daily
• Carrying the entire campus's budget, operations, and parent relationships; a Campus Lead handles that so you can focus on student and Guide outcomes
• Defending traditional teaching methods or adhering to a conventional K-12 curriculum

Requirements

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work in person at an Alpha campus in Austin, TX or Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; relocation support is provided
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, Organizational Leadership, Child Development, or a related field
• At least 5 years working with elementary-aged children (roughly ages 5 to 9)
• Experience leading a team of 5 or more people, including authority to hire and to remove people based on performance outcomes
• Experience building, launching, or significantly growing a program, team, school, or initiative from the ground up, not inheriting an existing one
• Comfortable working in a school that rejects traditional teaching methods
• Legally authorized to work in the United States

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Master's degree in a related field
• Track record using metrics, dashboards, or analytics to diagnose problems and drive measurable improvement
• Experience coaching or managing other adults toward measurable outcomes, not just doing the work yourself
• Background in youth development, camp leadership, competitive coaching, tutoring, or enrichment where motivation was central
• Comfort and skill facilitating or public speaking in front of rooms full of young children

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.

Pay

$150,000/year

Schedule

Full-time, year-long position with weekly payment period.

Benefits

Immediate access to W2 employee benefits. For details, visit W2 Benefits.