What are the responsibilities and job description for the Camp Director, Alpha - $200,000/year USD position at Crossover?
- On-site at an Alpha campus in New York City, NY; Miami, FL; or San Francisco, CA — we provide relocation support
- $200,000 per year
- Full-time position
Alpha operates on a two-hour learning framework. Adaptive applications handle academic instruction each morning, freeing your time for the interventions that truly transform children's trajectories: motivation, life skills development, coaching, and accountability. You directly oversee a cohort of K-3 learners while coaching the Guides (Alpha's designation for the adults who mentor and inspire students) who drive their daily advancement. Your work remains hands-on at all times, never retreating to administrative distance.
Your typical day rotates among three core activities. You analyze performance metrics and Coachbot data to identify which students and Guides need intervention. You conduct coaching sessions that produce concrete next actions rather than general encouragement. And you command the focus of a room filled with five- to nine-year-olds during workshops addressing public speaking, concentration, or feedback exchange.
When you identify effective methods, you document them. The playbooks you create establish the benchmark that all other Guides implement, extending your influence from a single cohort across the entire level. Demonstrating your capacity to scale that quality is your pathway to expanded leadership responsibility here.
If reducing standards seems compassionate to you, this role is not appropriate. If elevating them represents respect, submit your application.
What You Will Be Doing
- Coaching both Guides and students through analysis of performance data, classroom observation, and explicit feedback, then maintaining accountability to quantifiable objectives for both groups
- Leading one-hour live workshops for K-3 students focused on life skills including public speaking, concentration, teamwork, resilience, accountability, and feedback practices
- Conducting individual and small-group motivation sessions that link each child's personal goals and interests to concrete academic advancement
- Creating and iterating on playbooks that convert your most effective practices into replicable systems that other Guides can implement reliably
- Training Guides on these playbooks and demonstrating excellence in facilitation to maintain standards as the team expands
- Providing academic instruction or traditional front-of-room teaching; adaptive apps handle content delivery while you focus on coaching people
- Reducing expectations in response to student difficulties
- Managing from a distance in the manner of instructional coaches or principals; you remain embedded with your cohort each day
- Managing campus-wide budget, operations, and family communications; a Campus Lead handles those responsibilities so you can concentrate on student and Guide performance
- Advocating for traditional pedagogical methods or adhering to conventional K-12 curriculum structures
Fulfill Alpha's three commitments to every K-3 student: they develop a love of school, achieve learning at twice the typical rate, and cultivate exceptional life skills and independence.
Basic Requirements
- Available to work on-site at an Alpha campus in New York City, NY; Miami, FL; or San Francisco, CA; relocation support is available
- Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, Organizational Leadership, Child Development, or related discipline
- Minimum of 5 years of experience working with elementary-aged children (approximately ages 5 to 9)
- Demonstrated experience leading a team of at least 5 people, including hiring and performance-based removal authority
- Proven experience building, launching, or substantially expanding a program, team, school, or initiative from inception, rather than inheriting an established operation
- Alignment with a school environment that rejects conventional teaching methodologies
- Legal authorization to work in the United States
- Master's degree in a relevant discipline
- Demonstrated history leveraging metrics, dashboards, or analytics to identify issues and produce measurable improvement
- Experience coaching or managing other adults to achieve measurable results, beyond individual contributor work
- Experience in youth development, camp leadership, competitive coaching, tutoring, or enrichment programs where motivation was a primary focus
- Proven ability facilitating or presenting to groups of young children
Want to join a learning rebellion that’s transforming the traditional classroom?
Alpha School is on a mission to reshape education with a bold approach that harnesses AI to accelerate learning and unleash student potential.
They don’t play by the old rules.
Alpha is creating a new paradigm where students master core academics in just two hours a day, freeing up time for hands-on, passion-driven learning that truly prepares them for the real world.
Alpha School is rewriting the rules of education.
Sounds too good to be true? It’s not.
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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 $100 USD/hour, which equates to $200,000 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.
Crossover Job Code: LJ-5814-US-Philadel-CampDirector
Salary : $200,000