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

About the role

$120,000/year W2 salary, paid weekly; health, dental, and vision benefits from day one
On-site at an Alpha K-8 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)
You will not teach. You will motivate.
When a student reaches 99% of their target, the most impactful action you can take is to refuse acceptance. If this expectation unsettles you, this role is not a fit. If it energizes you—because maintaining high standards demonstrates your belief in a student's capability—continue reading.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, concentration, feedback exchange, and other foundational competencies, modifying the existing framework and creating new sessions when you identify needs
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions that drive every student toward their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your rapport with each student to overcome resistance
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who do not achieve passing scores until mastery is demonstrated
• Adjusting 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 falling behind, and modifying your coaching tactics for the subsequent week based on data insights

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 field
• Minimum 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
• Authorization to work in the US without requiring visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward defined objectives
• Demonstrated personal achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), indicating that holding others to high standards reflects your character, not an adopted stance
• Narrative ability and presence sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without escalating volume
• History of transforming 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.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering whiteboard lectures; academic content is handled by the applications, not by you
• Creating an entire curriculum without foundation; you begin with an established playbook and enhance it with your personal energy and narrative skills
• Passively monitoring students at computers; motivation in this role is active, individualized, and persistent
• Working through bureaucratic approval processes to secure resources for struggling students; when a student requires additional coaching time, you decide and implement immediately
• Grading assignments, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent communication; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this model