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

About the role

This role sits at the center of Alpha’s mission: you’ll develop the Guides who work directly with students, helping them become exceptional coaches rather than classroom instructors. You’ll lead life skills workshops that students remember years later, use performance data to identify where students or Guides are falling short and coach them back to excellence, and also lead your own student cohort, ensuring the standards you expect are the standards you model. The ripple effect is enormous—every Guide you coach influences dozens of students, and every improvement you make to your campus culture compounds across hundreds of young lives.

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.

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.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on campus in Dallas, TX; Oklahoma City, OK; Austin, TX; or Fort Worth, TX (relocation support provided).
• 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, paid weekly.

Benefits

Day-one health benefits; relocation support available.