Youth Mentor, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

Current openings at this salary level are in Scottsdale, AZ; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, Houston, and Brownsville, TX; Springfield, MA; and Park City, UT. Relocation assistance is available. If you're drawn to a different Alpha campus, submit your application anyway and indicate your preferred location—we'll review you for the relevant opening.

About the role

At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-driven adaptive platforms. No lectures, textbooks, or whiteboards. Your focus is entirely on motivation and life skills—typically afterthoughts in traditional schools. You’ll spend half your day facilitating one-hour workshops for K-8 groups on topics like public speaking, focus, and constructive feedback. The other half, you’ll meet individually or in small groups with students, review their Coachbot data, and guide each one toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets using school currency, leaderboards, and the trust you’ve established.

Your quarterly performance hinges on three metrics: every student in your cohort completes their weekly app goals, every student passes the Test2Pass mastery check for each workshop, and at least 90% report that they love you. Fall short on any one of these, and you’ve missed the mark.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 groups covering public speaking, focus, and how to give and receive feedback
• Conduct daily one-on-one and small-group sessions that motivate every student to reach 100% of their weekly app goals, using Coachbot analytics and Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards)
• Deliver the Test2Pass mastery assessment for each life skill, then re-coach students who don’t pass until mastery is achieved
• Refine the workshop playbook and create new sessions when you identify a need, ensuring content resonates with both kindergarteners and eighth graders
• Serve as both the adult who maintains the standard and the adult your students trust and confide in
• Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort completes their weekly learning goals, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year saying they loved school

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Teaching at a whiteboard, creating math or reading lesson plans, or grading homework (academic content is delivered through the apps)
• Conducting standardized test prep or being responsible for class-wide test results
• Managing parent conferences, emails, or complaints (campus leadership handles all parent communication)
• Controlling large groups of 30 students (cohorts are small and behavioral support is delivered one-on-one)
• Passively supervising students at computers (motivation here is hands-on and relational)

Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale, AZ; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, Houston, and Brownsville, TX; Springfield, MA; or Park City, UT
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• At least 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 (elementary and middle school) students: classroom instruction, tutoring, coaching athletics, camp leadership, or youth programming
• Comfortable allowing adaptive learning software to handle academic instruction while you focus on motivation and life-skills coaching
• A track record of high achievement—academic, athletic, or professional—that made upholding rigorous standards second nature rather than performative
• Stage presence capable of engaging a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth athletics coaching, debate, theater, camp leadership, or after-school programs where you were directly accountable for students achieving a defined goal
• Experience delivering social-emotional learning (SEL) or durable-skills curriculum
• A specific student you can describe who transformed from disengaged or resistant to fully committed, and the exact approach you used
• Regular use of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini

About Alpha

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills. Roles include guides (teachers), operators, admissions experts, school and curriculum leaders, and remote team members. Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience, with a culture built for builders—fast-moving, ambitious, and student-focused.

Pay

The compensation level for this role is $100,000 USD/year, paid weekly.

Benefits

This is a full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits. All roles are year-long positions.