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

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K–3 cohorts on subjects including public speaking, focus, feedback, and other essential skills, tailoring the existing playbook to your group rather than delivering it verbatim.
• Conducting daily one-on-one and small-group coaching sessions to ensure every student remains on track for weekly app completion, drawing on Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the trust you have established with each child.
• Delivering the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based evaluation, for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who do not initially pass until mastery is achieved.
• Delivering the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based evaluation, for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who do not initially pass until mastery is achieved.
• Motivating kindergarteners at their developmental level with song, story, movement, and play, while simultaneously holding second and third graders accountable to concrete, measurable performance standards.
• Serving as the warm, trusted adult students are excited to see each morning AND the adult who consistently refuses to accept less than their best effort.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering whiteboard-based instruction. Academic content is housed in the applications, not delivered by you.
• Designing curriculum from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook; your role is to animate it.
• Passively monitoring children at workstations. Motivation in this role is active, individualized, and sustained.
• Reducing a weekly target so a student can meet it. When a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not lowering the bar.
• Marking homework, preparing for standardized assessments, or handling parent outreach. Campus Leads manage parent communication, and the other tasks do not exist in this model.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, Miami Beach, or Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; or Boston, MA (relocation support provided).
• Bachelor's degree in any subject.
• At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4 to 9 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership).
• A specific example you can describe of motivating a young child to a hard goal: the goal, what you did, and the outcome.
• Willingness to let AI handle the instructional content while you focus on motivation and life-skills coaching.
• Willingness to hold high standards with students even when they push back.
• Likely to be legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience in youth athletics coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you were directly responsible for motivating young kids toward specific goals.
• Personal history of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to a hard bar is a pattern, not a posture.
• Natural performer's presence with little kids: the ability to hold a room of kindergarteners through voice, silliness, and movement.
• Track record of turning shy or resistant little kids into confident, active participants.