Youth Mentor, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

On-site at an Alpha campus: Dallas, TX; Oklahoma City, OK; Austin, TX; or Fort Worth, TX. Relocation support available.

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. We believe confidence isn't built by lowering the bar. It's built by helping students achieve things they once thought were out of reach. That belief shapes every decision we make. Our model is different by design: students master academics independently using AI-powered learning, freeing adults to focus on coaching character, building resilience, developing leadership, and creating the habits that lead to extraordinary outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Coach and develop Guides to deliver Alpha's coaching model with consistency, energy, and uncompromising standards.
• Lead engaging life skills workshops covering communication, focus, feedback, leadership, and resilience for K-8 students using proven playbooks.
• Use student and Guide performance data to identify coaching opportunities, remove barriers, and drive measurable improvements every week.
• Lead motivation sessions that help every student take ownership of ambitious goals and consistently achieve them.
• Maintain your own student cohort while modeling the coaching excellence and accountability you expect from every Guide.
• Build a coaching culture where exceptional Guides consistently develop students who love school, master academics at an accelerated pace, and build the resilience, leadership, and life skills to succeed far beyond the classroom.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Teaching academic subjects. Students learn core academics independently through AI-powered learning applications.
• Writing lesson plans or designing curriculum. Your job is exceptional coaching, not creating instructional materials.
• Managing classrooms through lectures, worksheets, or behavior systems. Students own their learning, and you coach the habits that make success possible.
• Lowering expectations to avoid difficult conversations. High standards and genuine belief in every student's potential go hand in hand.
• Measuring success by activity instead of outcomes. Results matter more than effort alone.

Requirements

• Willing to work on campus in Dallas, TX; Oklahoma City, OK; Austin, TX; or Fort Worth, TX.
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, Organizational Leadership, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in education, learning and development, coaching, youth leadership, or a related field.
• Experience leading an ongoing team of five or more adults, with final or primary authority to select team members and make performance-based termination decisions.
• Sustained, recurring responsibility for the learning, behavior, motivation, or growth of children ages 5-14 in an educational, developmental, athletic, or youth leadership setting.
• Track record of building, launching, or significantly growing a program, team, school, business, or initiative from the ground up, rather than simply maintaining or inheriting one.
• Proven ability to use performance metrics and data to diagnose problems, prioritize actions, and deliver measurable results.
• Willingness to work in a school that deliberately rejects traditional pedagogy.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Master's degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or a related field.
• Experience coaching athletics, leading outdoor or experiential education, directing camps, youth programs, or other cohort-based organizations.
• Experience building or leading innovative education, EdTech, tutoring, nonprofit, or learning programs outside traditional classroom teaching.
• Personal history of exceptional achievement in academics, athletics, entrepreneurship, or leadership.
• Strong conviction that education should develop capable, resilient, independent young people rather than simply deliver academic content.

Pay

$150,000/year W2 salary, paid weekly.

Benefits

• Day-one health benefits.