Youth Program Director, Waypoint Academy - $150,000/year USD

About the role

On-site at Waypoint Academy in Dripping Springs, Texas. Full-time, W2 employee position earning $150,000/year, paid weekly, with day-one health benefits and relocation support available. All roles are year-long positions. The most supportive thing you can do for a kid is hand them something hard and refuse to carry it for them. If that makes you uneasy, stop reading. If it makes you nod, keep going. At Waypoint Academy, core academics run on self-guided, AI-powered adaptive apps that compress the school day into a focused morning. No lectures. That frees you for the work that actually changes a kid's trajectory. Your morning might open with a one-on-one coaching session with a Guide, reviewing student data to find where a cohort is slipping. By midday you're outdoors, leading a workshop that teaches teamwork and resilience through a real challenge. Afternoons shift to motivation sessions: sitting with individual students, learning what drives them, and getting a resistant kid moving toward their goals. You carry your own cohort the whole time, so you stay sharp on the skills you coach in others. You've probably been the square peg in youth programming: too data-driven, too results-focused, too willing to take kids outside and let them struggle. This might be the first place that fits. You coach other Guides from day one, and as you deliver results, the standard you set ripples across the whole cohort and your influence over the program grows. You'll see the payoff in person: a skeptical kid who starts owning their progress, a Guide who gets sharper because you told them the truth, a student who walks out of the woods more capable than they walked in. Hold the standard. Take them outside.

Responsibilities

• Coach the Guides who work alongside you: review performance data, observe them with students, and end every session with specific actions that close the gap.
• Lead one-hour outdoor life-skill workshops where K-12 students build leadership, resilience, teamwork, and communication through adventure-based challenges.
• Run motivation sessions using student analytics and Coachbot data to get every student moving toward their goals and owning their own progress.
• Carry your own student cohort while developing other Guides, so you coach from current experience, not memory.
• Track student satisfaction, goal completion, and Guide performance weekly to catch underperformance before it compounds.

Requirements

• Willing to work in person at Waypoint Academy in Dripping Springs, Texas
• Bachelor's degree in education, psychology, business, outdoor education,