Student Success Coach, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

About the Role

You will sit beside a six-year-old who is stuck and frustrated, knowing the correct response is rarely to hand them the answer. You remain with the same group of students throughout the day—morning launch, app-based core learning, lunch, recess, life-skills workshops, and closing. By Tuesday, you will identify which child is masking a gap in fluency and take immediate action: gather two to four students, deliver a fifteen-minute targeted lesson you designed for that specific gap, and observe as it closes.

Core instruction is delivered through apps, so you are not drafting lesson plans for twenty-four students late into the night. Instead, you determine who needs intervention, what will advance them, and maintain the daily goal without compromise. Parents receive weekly data and expect you to articulate each child’s progress and gaps.

Alpha is expanding campuses nationwide. Those who demonstrate success in this role may advance to hiring and training incoming staff or establishing curriculum standards adopted by other campuses. Some move into lead roles coaching teams, where diagnostic judgment in literacy becomes the central focus.

Your resume alone will not determine your fit. Prior to an offer, you will record a brief video telling a story to young children and complete a full-day on-campus assessment. This role is full-time, on-site, five days per week at an Alpha campus.

Responsibilities

• Guide students through app-based core learning: identify who is struggling, ask questions to move them forward, and maintain daily goals.
• Conduct short structured-literacy sessions with two to four students, identifying phonics or decoding gaps through running records and fluency probes, delivering a sequence you created, and verifying transfer.
• Facilitate morning launch, life-skills workshops, and check-chart activities to maintain momentum for six-year-olds.
• Motivate students toward weekly app goals using school currency, leaderboards, and gamification.
• Remain with your students through lunch, recess, and closing, addressing frustration and refusal with tailored plans for each child.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Drafting lesson plans for an entire class each night—your planning is targeted and diagnostic.
• Managing a pull-out caseload from a separate intervention room—reading groups occupy roughly a tenth of your week and occur within the school day.
• Implementing a published curriculum or scripted program with fidelity to another's sequence.
• Completing IEPs, 504 plans, pursuing testing paperwork, or participating in curriculum committees.
• Stepping away to a prep period while another staff member supervises your students—you remain with them from launch to closing.

Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at a campus (locations listed below) with relocation support.
• At least 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4-9 in settings such as teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, or children’s theater.
• At least 2 years of experience teaching reading in grades K-3 within the last 5 years.
• Completed structured-literacy training (e.g., LETRS, IMSE, Orton-Gillingham, Wilson Reading System, Fundations, UFLI, CERI, Neuhaus, SIPPS, Really Great Reading) or a master’s in reading/literacy.
• Bachelor’s degree in any subject (teaching certificate not required).
• Comfortable dedicating ~90% of your day to guiding students through app-based learning, workshops, and campus routines, and 10% to reading sessions.
• Willing to work with all K-3 students, not exclusively struggling readers.
• Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Captured a six-year-old’s attention using only your energy and an engaging activity.
• Sustained participation among tired children in an after-school reading program.
• Parents requested you by name.
• Experience with reading platforms (Amira, Lexia, i-Ready) or diagnostic assessments (DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb).
• Described a child whose decoding you corrected and the method you used.

About Alpha

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills. Roles include guides (teachers), operators, admissions experts, school/curriculum leaders, and remote team members. Alpha offers six-figure compensation for those ready to help build a radically better school experience, with a culture built for builders—fast-moving, ambitious, and student-focused.

Locations

Current openings in:

• CA: Beverly Hills, La Jolla (San Diego), Malibu, Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Monica
• CT: Greenwich
• MA: Boston
• NY: New York City
• WA: Seattle

If interested in a different Alpha campus, apply and specify your preferred location.

Pay

$120,000 USD per year, paid weekly.

Benefits

Full-time W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits (e.g., healthcare, retirement). All roles are year-long positions.