Research Assistant, Alpha - $100,000/year USD
Crossover · Brownsville, TX · 3 wk ago
Administrative$100k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings using for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Must include a section only when posting has real specific content for it; never emit heading with filler placeholder. So we need to decide which sections have content.
From posting: It describes role: "What You Will Be Doing" (list of duties). That's responsibilities. Also "What You Won’t Be Doing" maybe also responsibilities but could be omitted? It's still substantive but maybe we can include under Responsibilities. There's also "Research Assistant Key Responsibilities" (some duplication). There's "Basic Requirements" and "Nice-to-have Requirements". That's requirements/qualifications. There's "About Alpha" (about the role? maybe about company). There's "Working with us" includes compensation, benefits, payment period, W2 employee, etc. That yields Pay and Benefits sections. There's schedule? Not mentioned explicitly; maybe full-time on-site. Could infer schedule but not given explicitly; we should not create Schedule section unless posting actually states it. It says full-time, on-site role. That's schedule info but not explicit hours. Might be considered schedule? The instruction: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. It does state pay: $100,000 USD/year, weekly payment. Benefits: immediate access to benefits, W2 employee. So we can have Pay and Benefits sections. Schedule: not explicitly stated beyond full-time; but maybe we can consider that as schedule? The instruction says avoid placeholder like "not specified". Full-time is specified. Could we create a Schedule section with "Full-time, on-site"? Might be okay. But safer to omit Schedule if not explicit about hours/days. The posting says "full-time, on-site role". That is schedule info. I'd include a Schedule section with that.
Now we need to avoid duplication. Let's extract substantive content.
Sections:
- About the role: maybe a brief description: "At Alpha, students learn academics through AI-powered adaptive learning apps. No lectures. No textbooks. No whiteboard. Motivation and life skills, the two things schools normally squeeze into the margins, are the whole job here." plus description of typical Tuesday etc. Could be under About the role.
- Responsibilities: list of duties from "What You Will Be Doing" and "Research Assistant Key Responsibilities". Also "What You Won’t Be Doing" maybe not needed but could be included as responsibilities negative? Probably not needed.
- Requirements: Basic Requirements and Nice-to-have Requirements.
- Qualifications: maybe same as Requirements? Could combine. But we need to follow headings list: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can choose which to include based on content.
We have content for About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications (maybe overlapping), Skills (maybe from nice-to-have like youth athletics coaching, debate, drama, camp leadership, after-school program work, experience teaching SEL, durable-skills curricula, personal record of high achievement, stage presence, comfort with AI tools). Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We must not invent or summarize away detail. Must preserve all substantive information. So we need to include all details from posting, but we can group them under appropriate headings.
Let's extract details:
About the role / company description:
- "At Alpha, students learn academics through AI-powered adaptive learning apps. No lectures. No textbooks. No whiteboard. Motivation and life skills, the two things schools normally squeeze into the margins, are the whole job here."
- Description of a Tuesday: half day run one-hour workshops for K-8 cohort on public speaking, focus, and how to give and receive real feedback. Other half sit with students one-on-one or small groups, read Coachbot analytics, push each to 100% of weekly app goals, using school currency, leaderboards, and relationship.
- Quarter metrics: every student hits weekly app goals, every student passes Test2Pass mastery check for each workshop, 90%+ say they love you. Missing one is missing the job.
- Payoff: day a student who spent September insisting they were bad at math asks you to raise their goal.
- Full-time, on-site role at one of Alpha's campuses.
- Recruiting nationally; job boards may display opportunity in nearby cities that do not have a campus yet.
- Current openings for this salary tier available in Scottsdale, AZ; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, FL; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; and Austin, Dallas, and Plano, TX.
- If interested in another Alpha campus, apply anyway and tell us preferred location—we'll consider you for appropriate opening.
- If you have coached youth sports, run a cabin at camp, or tutored a kid who wanted to quit, the last step before an offer is a full day on campus coaching real Alpha students.
- If that day is the part you want most, apply today.
What You Will Be Doing (responsibilities):
- Leading one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts on public speaking, focus, and giving and receiving feedback.
- Running daily 1:1 and small-group motivation sessions that push every student to 100% of their weekly app goals, using Coachbot analytics and Alpha's incentive systems (school currency, leaderboards).
- Administering the Test2Pass mastery assessment for each life skill, then re-coaching any student who does not pass until they do.
- Adapting the workshop playbook, and building new sessions when you find a gap, so the same material lands with a kindergartener and with an 8th grader.
- Being both the adult who holds the standard and the adult your students choose to talk to.
What You Won’t Be Doing (maybe not needed but could be included under Responsibilities as "Not responsible for"):
- Lecturing at a whiteboard, writing math and reading lesson plans, or grading homework; academic instruction lives in the apps.
- Running standardized test prep or answering for a class-wide test score.
- Handling parent conferences, emails, and complaints; campus leadership owns all parent-facing work.
- Crowd-controlling 30 students at once; cohorts are small and behavior work here is 1:1 coaching.
- Supervising kids at computers; motivation here is active and personal.
Research Assistant Key Responsibilities (maybe duplicate):
- Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort hits their weekly learning goals, masters each life skill, and leaves the year saying they loved school.
Basic Requirements:
- Willing to work in person at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale, AZ; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, FL; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; or Austin, Dallas, or Plano, TX - relocation support provided.
- Bachelor's degree in any subject.
- At least 3 years working directly with K-8 (elementary and middle school) students: classroom teaching, tutoring, athletic coaching, camp leadership, or youth program work.
- Comfortable letting adaptive learning software deliver the academic instruction while you own motivation and life-skills coaching.
- A personal record of high achievement, academic, athletic, or professional, that made holding a hard standard a habit rather than a posture.
- Stage presence strong enough to hold a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without raising your voice.
- Legal right to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.
Nice-to-have Requirements:
- Youth athletics coaching, debate, drama, camp leadership, or after-school program work where you were personally accountable for kids hitting a specific goal.
- Experience teaching social-emotional learning (SEL) or durable-skills curricula.
- A student you can name who went from resistant or checked out to fully engaged, and the specific thing you did.
- Daily use of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.
About Alpha (company description):
- 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.
- There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!
Working with us (compensation/benefits):
- This is a full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits (link). All roles are year-long positions.
- The compensation level for this role is $100,000 USD/year.
- The payment period is weekly.
- Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.
- Crossover Job Code: LJ-4415-US-Brownsvi-ResearchAssist (maybe drop as metadata).
We need to output HTML fragment with headings
for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Must include a section only when posting has real specific content for it; never emit heading with filler placeholder. So we need to decide which sections have content.
From posting: It describes role: "What You Will Be Doing" (list of duties). That's responsibilities. Also "What You Won’t Be Doing" maybe also responsibilities but could be omitted? It's still substantive but maybe we can include under Responsibilities. There's also "Research Assistant Key Responsibilities" (some duplication). There's "Basic Requirements" and "Nice-to-have Requirements". That's requirements/qualifications. There's "About Alpha" (about the role? maybe about company). There's "Working with us" includes compensation, benefits, payment period, W2 employee, etc. That yields Pay and Benefits sections. There's schedule? Not mentioned explicitly; maybe full-time on-site. Could infer schedule but not given explicitly; we should not create Schedule section unless posting actually states it. It says full-time, on-site role. That's schedule info but not explicit hours. Might be considered schedule? The instruction: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. It does state pay: $100,000 USD/year, weekly payment. Benefits: immediate access to benefits, W2 employee. So we can have Pay and Benefits sections. Schedule: not explicitly stated beyond full-time; but maybe we can consider that as schedule? The instruction says avoid placeholder like "not specified". Full-time is specified. Could we create a Schedule section with "Full-time, on-site"? Might be okay. But safer to omit Schedule if not explicit about hours/days. The posting says "full-time, on-site role". That is schedule info. I'd include a Schedule section with that.
Now we need to avoid duplication. Let's extract substantive content.
Sections:
- About the role: maybe a brief description: "At Alpha, students learn academics through AI-powered adaptive learning apps. No lectures. No textbooks. No whiteboard. Motivation and life skills, the two things schools normally squeeze into the margins, are the whole job here." plus description of typical Tuesday etc. Could be under About the role.
- Responsibilities: list of duties from "What You Will Be Doing" and "Research Assistant Key Responsibilities". Also "What You Won’t Be Doing" maybe not needed but could be included as responsibilities negative? Probably not needed.
- Requirements: Basic Requirements and Nice-to-have Requirements.
- Qualifications: maybe same as Requirements? Could combine. But we need to follow headings list: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can choose which to include based on content.
We have content for About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications (maybe overlapping), Skills (maybe from nice-to-have like youth athletics coaching, debate, drama, camp leadership, after-school program work, experience teaching SEL, durable-skills curricula, personal record of high achievement, stage presence, comfort with AI tools). Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We must not invent or summarize away detail. Must preserve all substantive information. So we need to include all details from posting, but we can group them under appropriate headings.
Let's extract details:
About the role / company description:
- "At Alpha, students learn academics through AI-powered adaptive learning apps. No lectures. No textbooks. No whiteboard. Motivation and life skills, the two things schools normally squeeze into the margins, are the whole job here."
- Description of a Tuesday: half day run one-hour workshops for K-8 cohort on public speaking, focus, and how to give and receive real feedback. Other half sit with students one-on-one or small groups, read Coachbot analytics, push each to 100% of weekly app goals, using school currency, leaderboards, and relationship.
- Quarter metrics: every student hits weekly app goals, every student passes Test2Pass mastery check for each workshop, 90%+ say they love you. Missing one is missing the job.
- Payoff: day a student who spent September insisting they were bad at math asks you to raise their goal.
- Full-time, on-site role at one of Alpha's campuses.
- Recruiting nationally; job boards may display opportunity in nearby cities that do not have a campus yet.
- Current openings for this salary tier available in Scottsdale, AZ; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, FL; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; and Austin, Dallas, and Plano, TX.
- If interested in another Alpha campus, apply anyway and tell us preferred location—we'll consider you for appropriate opening.
- If you have coached youth sports, run a cabin at camp, or tutored a kid who wanted to quit, the last step before an offer is a full day on campus coaching real Alpha students.
- If that day is the part you want most, apply today.
What You Will Be Doing (responsibilities):
- Leading one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts on public speaking, focus, and giving and receiving feedback.
- Running daily 1:1 and small-group motivation sessions that push every student to 100% of their weekly app goals, using Coachbot analytics and Alpha's incentive systems (school currency, leaderboards).
- Administering the Test2Pass mastery assessment for each life skill, then re-coaching any student who does not pass until they do.
- Adapting the workshop playbook, and building new sessions when you find a gap, so the same material lands with a kindergartener and with an 8th grader.
- Being both the adult who holds the standard and the adult your students choose to talk to.
What You Won’t Be Doing (maybe not needed but could be included under Responsibilities as "Not responsible for"):
- Lecturing at a whiteboard, writing math and reading lesson plans, or grading homework; academic instruction lives in the apps.
- Running standardized test prep or answering for a class-wide test score.
- Handling parent conferences, emails, and complaints; campus leadership owns all parent-facing work.
- Crowd-controlling 30 students at once; cohorts are small and behavior work here is 1:1 coaching.
- Supervising kids at computers; motivation here is active and personal.
Research Assistant Key Responsibilities (maybe duplicate):
- Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort hits their weekly learning goals, masters each life skill, and leaves the year saying they loved school.
Basic Requirements:
- Willing to work in person at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale, AZ; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, FL; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; or Austin, Dallas, or Plano, TX - relocation support provided.
- Bachelor's degree in any subject.
- At least 3 years working directly with K-8 (elementary and middle school) students: classroom teaching, tutoring, athletic coaching, camp leadership, or youth program work.
- Comfortable letting adaptive learning software deliver the academic instruction while you own motivation and life-skills coaching.
- A personal record of high achievement, academic, athletic, or professional, that made holding a hard standard a habit rather than a posture.
- Stage presence strong enough to hold a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without raising your voice.
- Legal right to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.
Nice-to-have Requirements:
- Youth athletics coaching, debate, drama, camp leadership, or after-school program work where you were personally accountable for kids hitting a specific goal.
- Experience teaching social-emotional learning (SEL) or durable-skills curricula.
- A student you can name who went from resistant or checked out to fully engaged, and the specific thing you did.
- Daily use of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.
About Alpha (company description):
- 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.
- There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!
Working with us (compensation/benefits):
- This is a full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits (link). All roles are year-long positions.
- The compensation level for this role is $100,000 USD/year.
- The payment period is weekly.
- Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.
- Crossover Job Code: LJ-4415-US-Brownsvi-ResearchAssist (maybe drop as metadata).
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or drop it. Probably drop it. We must not include boilerplate like legal/EEO etc. Not present. We must not repeat duplicated lines. Ensure we don't duplicate content. Now decide sections: - About the role: include description of Alpha's model and typical Tuesday etc. Could combine with company description? Might be separate. But we have both "About Alpha" and description of role. Could merge into About the role section. Let's craft About the role paragraph(s): Paragraph 1: At Alpha, students learn academics through AI-powered adaptive learning apps. No lectures. No textbooks. No whiteboard. Motivation and life skills, the two things schools normally squeeze into the margins, are the whole job here. Paragraph 2: Picture a Tuesday. Half your day you run one-hour workshops for a K-8 cohort on public speaking, focus, and how to give and receive real feedback. The other half you sit with those same students one-on-one or in small groups, read their Coachbot analytics, and push each of them to 100% of their weekly app goals, using school currency, leaderboards, and the relationship you have built with them to break through resistance. Paragraph 3: Your quarter comes down to three numbers: every student in your cohort hits their weekly app goals, every student passes the Test2Pass mastery check for each workshop, and 90% or more say they love you. Missing one of the three is missing the job. Paragraph 4: The payoff is the day a student who spent September insisting they were bad at math asks you to raise their goal. Paragraph 5: This is a full-time, on-site role at one of Alpha's campuses. We recruit nationally, so job boards may display this opportunity in nearby cities that do not have a campus yet. Current openings for this salary tier are available in Scottsdale, AZ; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, FL; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; and Austin, Dallas, and Plano, TX. If you're interested in another Alpha campus, apply anyway and tell us your preferred location—we'll consider you for the appropriate opening. Paragraph 6: If you have coached youth sports, run a cabin at camp, or tutored a kid who wanted to quit, the last step before an offer is a full day on campus coaching real Alpha students. If that day is the part you want most, apply today. That covers About the role. Now Responsibilities: list from "