Youth Development Manager, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

About the role

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills. This role involves facilitating workshops on life skills for K-8 students, managing a cohort, and coaching Guides.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating one-hour live workshops on life skills (public speaking, concentration, giving and receiving feedback) for K-8 (elementary and middle school) cohorts, executing Alpha's playbook rather than creating content independently
• Conducting motivation sessions leveraging student analytics and Alpha's incentive framework (school currency, leaderboards) to achieve 100% student goal completion
• Coaching Guides on program adherence and standards enforcement, ensuring every session generates concrete improvement actions
• Managing your own student cohort while simultaneously developing other Guides
• Monitoring student satisfaction scores, goal completion rates, and Guide performance metrics on a weekly basis to identify underperformance before it escalates

Requirements

• Willing to work on-campus in Atlanta, GA; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Austin, TX; Keller (Fort Worth), TX; The Woodlands (Houston), TX (relocation support provided)
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in education, learning and development, coaching, youth leadership, or a comparable field
• Track record of leading a team of 5 or more adults, including hiring and making performance-based termination decisions
• Direct experience working with kids aged 5-14 in an educational or developmental setting
• Built, launched, or significantly grew a program, team, business, school, or initiative from the ground up
• Proven use of data and metrics to set weekly goals and drive decisions, not just report results
• Likely the outlier in traditional education: overly data-focused, excessively results-oriented, too comfortable challenging conventional approaches with young people

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or a related field (nice-to-have)
• Coached athletics, led wilderness or experiential programs, directed camps, or ran youth ministry at a scale requiring cohort management and outcome measurement
• Transitioned from classroom teaching to program building or operational roles: EdTech, tutoring businesses, youth nonprofits, or school intervention teams
• Early-career history of exceptional personal performance — academic, athletic, or professional — prior to entering leadership
• Conviction that the current education system is fundamentally broken and personal commitment to rebuilding it

Skills

• Data-driven decision-making
• Effective communication and facilitation skills
• Ability to motivate and engage students
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Experience with student analytics and incentive frameworks

Benefits

• Day-one health benefits
• Relocation support available

Pay

$150,000/year W2 salary, paid weekly

Schedule

Full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position