Youth Development Manager, Alpha - $200,000/year USD

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.

What You Will Be Doing

• Coaching Guides to reliably provide outstanding student experiences while upholding Alpha's rigorous standards.
• Facilitating dynamic life skills workshops that build communication, leadership, focus, and other practical competencies for K-12 students.
• Inspiring students to pursue ambitious academic targets and optimize progress within their self-directed learning pathways.
• Leveraging data, direct observation, and coaching dialogues to enhance Guide effectiveness and student results.
• Supporting the launch and establishment of new Alpha campuses by cultivating a culture rooted in excellence, accountability, and ongoing improvement.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering traditional academic instruction or subject-specific lectures.
• Developing lesson plans or curriculum materials.
• Compromising standards to generate superficial feelings of success rather than facilitating genuine mastery.
• Leading a team remotely from an office without direct, regular coaching engagement with students and Guides.
• Maintaining obsolete practices solely because they reflect historical precedent.

Responsibilities

• Guarantee that every student consistently receives Alpha's three core promises by developing high-performing Guides, facilitating compelling life skills sessions, and upholding uncompromising expectations for student achievement.

Requirements

Basic Requirements

• Willingness to work on-site at an Alpha campus (relocation assistance provided): Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Miami, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Boston, MA; Raleigh, NC; New York City, NY; Orange County, CA; Santa Barbara, CA.
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or related discipline; Master's degree preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in education, coaching, learning and development, or comparable leadership capacity.
• Proven experience leading and developing teams of five or more individuals, including responsibility for hiring and performance-based termination decisions.
• Documented success utilizing data to inform and drive performance improvements.
• Experience engaging with children ages 5-14 in educational, coaching, or developmental contexts.
• Background in building or launching new teams, programs, businesses, schools, or initiatives, with readiness to support opening a new campus from inception.
• Commitment to working within a school model that rejects traditional lecture-based instruction.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience coaching youth in athletics, debate, camps, or extracurricular activities.
• Outstanding public speaking and storytelling abilities.
• History of attaining high levels of academic, professional, or athletic achievement.
• Experience driving teams toward ambitious objectives while sustaining rigorous accountability.
• Enthusiasm for questioning traditional education models and contributing to the development of a new K-12 paradigm.

Pay

The compensation level for this role is $200,000 USD/year.

Schedule

This is a full-time, year-long position with weekly payment periods.

Benefits

Immediate access to benefits as a W2 employee. More details on benefits.