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

You will not be doing

• Delivering whiteboard lectures
• Creating an entire curriculum without foundation
• Making students give up when they struggle
• Maintaining bureaucratic approval processes
• Grading assignments
• Handling parent communication

What You Will Be Doing

• 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

Basic 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