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

About the role

This is not a teaching role. This is motivation. The most meaningful support you can offer a student who reaches 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as finished. If this standard feels uncomfortable, this role is not for you. If it energizes you—because maintaining high expectations is how you demonstrate belief in a student's potential—continue reading.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other transferable skills, customizing the playbook and creating new sessions when you identify needs
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions that drive every student toward 100% completion of their weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your personal connection with each student to overcome resistance
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill, and providing coaching to students who do not pass until they achieve mastery
• Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and physical activity to 8th graders needing candid conversation and accountability
• Serving as the adult who maintains high standards and whom students genuinely want to engage with; warmth establishes trust that enables you to challenge, and challenge communicates your belief in their capability

Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in one of these locations: Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX (Central, South, or The Woodlands); Park City, UT—relocation assistance provided
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• Minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (including classroom instruction, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
• A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: the objective, your actions, and the result
• Comfort with AI managing instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Active daily use of generative AI tools (such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto campus)

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after-school programming where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward defined objectives
• Demonstrated personal track record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), indicating that holding others to rigorous standards is inherent, not performative
• Storytelling ability and stage presence capable of engaging a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
• Promised success converting disengaged or resistant students into active, motivated participants

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. There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering whiteboard lectures; academic content is embedded in the applications, not delivered by you
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; you activate an established playbook through energy and narrative
• Passively monitoring students on computers; motivation in this role is active, individualized, and continuous
• Reducing a weekly target to help a student reach it; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the goal
• Assessing homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent communications; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this model

Working with us

This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.