Youth Program Director, Waypoint Academy - $150,000/year USD
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for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as heading. Do NOT include Job ID/requisition numbers as headings; can fold minor metadata into short
or drop it. Remove boilerplate etc. Include only sections when posting has real specific content. Need to preserve all substantive info.
Let's parse the posting.
Content:
- Location: On-site at Waypoint Academy in Dripping Springs, Texas
- Salary: $150,000/year as a W2 employee, paid weekly.
- Day-one health benefits.
- Relocation support available.
- Quote: "The most supportive thing you can do for a kid is hand them something hard and refuse to carry it for them." (maybe not needed but it's part of description; it's prose.)
- Description of role: 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. Apply now.
- "What You Will Be Doing" bullet list:
- 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.
- "What You Won’t Be Doing" bullet list:
- Lecturing or tutoring students on academic subjects. They learn through self-guided adaptive apps, often with no adult in the room.
- Building curriculum or lesson plans from scratch. The playbooks exist; the bar is fidelity and energy, not originality.
- Coaching Guides on teaching technique. Guides don't lecture, so you coach motivation, accountability, and how they show up with kids.
- Lowering the bar to keep the peace. You won't pass a student along or smooth over a Guide's underperformance.
- Keeping kids inside and in their seats. Much of the learning here happens outdoors, through challenge.
- "Youth Program Director" (maybe heading? but we shouldn't repeat job title as heading; but we can treat as part of description? The posting says "Youth Program Director Key Responsibilities". Might be a heading but we should not repeat job title as heading; but we can treat as a section heading "Key Responsibilities"? However we have a standard set of headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to map content accordingly.
- "Key Responsibilities" bullet list:
- Make sure every student in your cohort loves school, grows academically, and builds the character and life skills to thrive.
- "Basic Requirements" bullet list:
- Willing to work in person at Waypoint Academy in Dripping Springs, Texas
- Bachelor's degree in education, psychology, business, outdoor education, recreation, youth development, or a related field
- At least 5 years in education, youth development, coaching, outdoor education, or learning and development (L&D)
- Track record of leading a team of 5 or more adults, including hiring and performance-based termination decisions
- Direct experience working with youth ages 5-18 in an educational or developmental setting
- Built, launched, or significantly grew a program, team, school, or outdoor initiative from the ground up, with a specific and measurable example
- Proven use of data and metrics to set goals and drive decisions, not just report results
- Legally authorized to work in the United States
- "Nice-to-have Requirements" bullet list:
- Master's degree in a related field
- Coached athletics, led wilderness or experiential programs, directed camps, or ran youth programs at a scale that required running cohorts and measuring outcomes
- Left classroom teaching to build or run programs from a different seat: EdTech, tutoring, youth nonprofits, or school intervention teams
- Early-career track record of high personal performance, academic, athletic, or professional, before moving into leadership
- Belief that the standard education model is broken and personal investment in rebuilding it
- "About Waypoint Academy": Nature-based school that blends rigorous academics with real-world challenges. There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!
- "Working with us": This is a full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits (link). All roles are year-long positions. The compensation level for this role is $150,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic. Crossover Job Code: LJ-5818-US-Dripping-YouthProgramDi.013
We need to remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The "Apply now" and "Hit the Apply button" maybe considered application instructions; we should remove them. Also remove the link to benefits maybe? It's part of benefits description; we can keep mention of benefits but drop the URL? The instruction says remove application instructions; the link might be considered part of benefits but it's a URL; we could keep the benefit description but drop the URL. The "Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic." is also application instruction? It's more info; maybe we can drop it. Also "Crossover Job Code: ..." is minor metadata; we can fold into a short
or drop it. Probably drop it.
We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. Let's decide which sections to include:
- About the role: we have a description of role (the paragraph after quote). Could be "About the role". We'll put that in
.
- Responsibilities: we have "What You Will Be Doing" and "What You Won’t Be Doing" and also "Key Responsibilities". We can combine into Responsibilities section with
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- Requirements: we have Basic Requirements and Nice-to-have Requirements. Could be under Requirements section (maybe separate sub-sections? but we only allowed headings from list; we could put Requirements and then within that separate lists for basic and nice-to-have? Could use
to label? But we must not invent headings not in list. Could we have two sections: Requirements and Qualifications? The list includes Qualifications as a possible heading. Could separate: Requirements = basic requirements; Qualifications = nice-to-have? Or we could put all under Requirements and leave Qualifications empty (but we shouldn't emit empty heading). Better to use Requirements for basic, Qualifications for nice-to-have. Or Skills for nice-to-have? The nice-to-have includes Master's degree, coaching athletics, etc. Those are more qualifications/skills. Could treat as Skills. But we have Skills heading available. Let's map:
- About the role: description paragraph.
- Responsibilities: combine What You Will Be Doing, What You Won’t Be Doing, Key Responsibilities.
- Requirements: Basic Requirements.
- Qualifications: Nice-to-have Requirements (maybe also include Master's degree etc.)
- Skills: maybe not needed; we could omit if no specific skill list beyond qualifications. But we have some skill-like items: "Proven use of data and metrics", "Track record of leading a team", etc. Those are in Requirements. Could put Skills empty? Better to omit Skills section if no specific skill list.
- Benefits: Day-one health benefits, relocation support available, immediate access to benefits, year-long positions. Also maybe mention W2 employee. We'll include Benefits.
- Pay: $150,000/year, paid weekly.
- Schedule: full-time, W2 employee position, year-long positions. Could be schedule: full-time, year-long. We'll include Schedule.
We must not include placeholder text like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We must not repeat job title as heading. We'll not include "Youth Program Director". We'll not include "About Waypoint Academy" as a heading? That could be "About the role" but we already have that. The "About Waypoint Academy" paragraph is about the school; could be part of About the role or maybe we could add a separate "About Waypoint Academy" but not in allowed headings. So we incorporate into About the role.
We must not include application instructions like "Apply now", "Hit the Apply button". Remove those.
We must not include duplicated lines.
Now craft HTML.
We'll start with
About the role
then containing the descriptive paragraph(s). Combine the initial quote? Might be part of description but it's a motivational quote; we can include it as part of the paragraph.
Paragraph: "On-site at Waypoint Academy in Dripping Springs, Texas $150,000/year as a W2 employee, paid weekly. Day-one health benefits. Relocation support available 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.
for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as heading. Do NOT include Job ID/requisition numbers as headings; can fold minor metadata into short
or drop it. Remove boilerplate etc. Include only sections when posting has real specific content. Need to preserve all substantive info. Let's parse the posting. Content: - Location: On-site at Waypoint Academy in Dripping Springs, Texas - Salary: $150,000/year as a W2 employee, paid weekly. - Day-one health benefits. - Relocation support available. - Quote: "The most supportive thing you can do for a kid is hand them something hard and refuse to carry it for them." (maybe not needed but it's part of description; it's prose.) - Description of role: 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. Apply now. - "What You Will Be Doing" bullet list: - 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. - "What You Won’t Be Doing" bullet list: - Lecturing or tutoring students on academic subjects. They learn through self-guided adaptive apps, often with no adult in the room. - Building curriculum or lesson plans from scratch. The playbooks exist; the bar is fidelity and energy, not originality. - Coaching Guides on teaching technique. Guides don't lecture, so you coach motivation, accountability, and how they show up with kids. - Lowering the bar to keep the peace. You won't pass a student along or smooth over a Guide's underperformance. - Keeping kids inside and in their seats. Much of the learning here happens outdoors, through challenge. - "Youth Program Director" (maybe heading? but we shouldn't repeat job title as heading; but we can treat as part of description? The posting says "Youth Program Director Key Responsibilities". Might be a heading but we should not repeat job title as heading; but we can treat as a section heading "Key Responsibilities"? However we have a standard set of headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to map content accordingly. - "Key Responsibilities" bullet list: - Make sure every student in your cohort loves school, grows academically, and builds the character and life skills to thrive. - "Basic Requirements" bullet list: - Willing to work in person at Waypoint Academy in Dripping Springs, Texas - Bachelor's degree in education, psychology, business, outdoor education, recreation, youth development, or a related field - At least 5 years in education, youth development, coaching, outdoor education, or learning and development (L&D) - Track record of leading a team of 5 or more adults, including hiring and performance-based termination decisions - Direct experience working with youth ages 5-18 in an educational or developmental setting - Built, launched, or significantly grew a program, team, school, or outdoor initiative from the ground up, with a specific and measurable example - Proven use of data and metrics to set goals and drive decisions, not just report results - Legally authorized to work in the United States - "Nice-to-have Requirements" bullet list: - Master's degree in a related field - Coached athletics, led wilderness or experiential programs, directed camps, or ran youth programs at a scale that required running cohorts and measuring outcomes - Left classroom teaching to build or run programs from a different seat: EdTech, tutoring, youth nonprofits, or school intervention teams - Early-career track record of high personal performance, academic, athletic, or professional, before moving into leadership - Belief that the standard education model is broken and personal investment in rebuilding it - "About Waypoint Academy": Nature-based school that blends rigorous academics with real-world challenges. There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you! - "Working with us": This is a full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits (link). All roles are year-long positions. The compensation level for this role is $150,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic. Crossover Job Code: LJ-5818-US-Dripping-YouthProgramDi.013 We need to remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The "Apply now" and "Hit the Apply button" maybe considered application instructions; we should remove them. Also remove the link to benefits maybe? It's part of benefits description; we can keep mention of benefits but drop the URL? The instruction says remove application instructions; the link might be considered part of benefits but it's a URL; we could keep the benefit description but drop the URL. The "Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic." is also application instruction? It's more info; maybe we can drop it. Also "Crossover Job Code: ..." is minor metadata; we can fold into a short
or drop it. Probably drop it. We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. Let's decide which sections to include: - About the role: we have a description of role (the paragraph after quote). Could be "About the role". We'll put that in
. - Responsibilities: we have "What You Will Be Doing" and "What You Won’t Be Doing" and also "Key Responsibilities". We can combine into Responsibilities section with
- . Might be large but okay.
- Requirements: we have Basic Requirements and Nice-to-have Requirements. Could be under Requirements section (maybe separate sub-sections? but we only allowed headings from list; we could put Requirements and then within that separate lists for basic and nice-to-have? Could use
to label? But we must not invent headings not in list. Could we have two sections: Requirements and Qualifications? The list includes Qualifications as a possible heading. Could separate: Requirements = basic requirements; Qualifications = nice-to-have? Or we could put all under Requirements and leave Qualifications empty (but we shouldn't emit empty heading). Better to use Requirements for basic, Qualifications for nice-to-have. Or Skills for nice-to-have? The nice-to-have includes Master's degree, coaching athletics, etc. Those are more qualifications/skills. Could treat as Skills. But we have Skills heading available. Let's map: - About the role: description paragraph. - Responsibilities: combine What You Will Be Doing, What You Won’t Be Doing, Key Responsibilities. - Requirements: Basic Requirements. - Qualifications: Nice-to-have Requirements (maybe also include Master's degree etc.) - Skills: maybe not needed; we could omit if no specific skill list beyond qualifications. But we have some skill-like items: "Proven use of data and metrics", "Track record of leading a team", etc. Those are in Requirements. Could put Skills empty? Better to omit Skills section if no specific skill list. - Benefits: Day-one health benefits, relocation support available, immediate access to benefits, year-long positions. Also maybe mention W2 employee. We'll include Benefits. - Pay: $150,000/year, paid weekly. - Schedule: full-time, W2 employee position, year-long positions. Could be schedule: full-time, year-long. We'll include Schedule. We must not include placeholder text like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We must not repeat job title as heading. We'll not include "Youth Program Director". We'll not include "About Waypoint Academy" as a heading? That could be "About the role" but we already have that. The "About Waypoint Academy" paragraph is about the school; could be part of About the role or maybe we could add a separate "About Waypoint Academy" but not in allowed headings. So we incorporate into About the role. We must not include application instructions like "Apply now", "Hit the Apply button". Remove those. We must not include duplicated lines. Now craft HTML. We'll start with
About the role
thencontaining the descriptive paragraph(s). Combine the initial quote? Might be part of description but it's a motivational quote; we can include it as part of the paragraph. Paragraph: "On-site at Waypoint Academy in Dripping Springs, Texas $150,000/year as a W2 employee, paid weekly. Day-one health benefits. Relocation support available 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.