Youth Coach, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

About the role

$120,000 annual W2 salary with weekly pay; health, dental, and vision benefits begin on day one
On-site placement at an Alpha K-8 school in Beverly Hills, CA; Piedmont, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Raleigh, NC; Portland, OR (relocation assistance available)
Your role is not to teach. Your role is to motivate.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, concentration, feedback exchange, and other transferable skills, modifying the existing framework and creating new sessions when you identify a need
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions that drive every student toward their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's reward structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your personal connection with each student to overcome reluctance
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's competency-based assessment) for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who do not achieve passing marks until they succeed
• Modifying your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and physical activity to 8th graders needing direct conversation and accountability
• Analyzing weekly cohort performance metrics in Coachbot, pinpointing students who are falling behind, and revising your coaching tactics for the upcoming week based on what the data reveals

Requirements

• Available to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Beverly Hills, CA; Piedmont, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Raleigh, NC; Portland, OR (relocation assistance available)
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• Minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (classroom instruction, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program management)
• A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: the objective, your actions, and the result
• Comfort with AI managing instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after-school programming where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward defined objectives
• History of personal high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), demonstrating that maintaining rigorous standards for others is ingrained, not performative
• Narrative ability and stage presence capable of commanding the attention of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
• Promised ability to transform disengaged or resistant students into engaged contributors

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. There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering instruction at a whiteboard; academic content is delivered through the applications, not by you
• Creating an entire curriculum from scratch; you begin with an established playbook and personalize it with your own presence and narrative style
• Passively monitoring students at computers; motivation in this role is active, individualized, and persistent
• Working through administrative approval processes to secure resources for students in need; when a student requires additional coaching time, you decide and implement immediately
• Evaluating homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent correspondence; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this model