Youth Development Coach, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

About the role

Alpha students finish all of their academics in two hours a day, and this job exists to fill that gap. In this role, you'll be a guide, spending your day building confidence, focus, resilience, and the willingness to attempt hard things in children who are still learning to tie their shoes.

Responsibilities

• Run hour-long life-skills workshops where K-3 students practice communication, focus, and feedback out loud and on their feet.
• Coach students individually and in small groups, using Coachbot to see exactly who is off pace and intervene before a weekly goal slips out of reach.
• Assess life-skill mastery through Test2Pass and keep coaching until a student can actually do the thing — participation isn't the bar.
• Shift your approach to the age in front of you: songs, movement, and storytelling for the youngest cohort; independence, self-tracking, and accountability for 2nd and 3rd graders.
• Build enough trust with each child that they'll attempt something hard in front of you and stay in it when it doesn't work the first time.
• Own your cohort's numbers. You'll see your students' progress on a dashboard every week, and so will everyone else.

Requirements

• Willing and able to work on-site, five days a week, at one of the Alpha campuses listed in this posting.
• Bachelor's degree in any field. A teaching certificate is not required.
• At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4-9 — teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, children's theater, or a similar setting where kids showed up because of you.
• A track record of getting young children to reach a goal they didn't think they could reach, with specific examples you can walk us through.
• Experience leading structured activities for groups of young children and keeping 10-15 or more students engaged, focused, and participating.
• The ability to explain ideas clearly to young learners and redirect a group in real time when attention, behavior, or motivation slips.
• Comfortable being measured. You'll be accountable to weekly cohort data, and you'll use that data to decide where to spend your time.
• Experience leading structured activities for groups of young children and keeping 10-15 or more students engaged, focused, and participating.
• The ability to be genuinely warm and completely immovable on expectations, at the same time.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience in youth sports, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori, progressive education, or high-engagement after-school programs.
• A personal history of chasing something ambitious — in academics, athletics, the arts, or your career — and finding out what it takes.
• Storytelling or performance chops that hold a room of six-year-olds without you raising your voice.
• Specific examples of turning a reluctant or shy child into a confident, participating one.

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. Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career.