Counselor, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

• $100,000 annual W2 salary paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision benefits starting day one
• On-site position at an Alpha K-8 campus located in Denver, CO; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX (Central, South, or The Woodlands); Park City, UT (Salt Lake City area); or Toronto, Canada (relocation assistance available)
  
  

This is not a teaching role. This is about motivation.

The most meaningful support you can offer a student who reached 99% of their goal is to refuse to accept anything less than completion. If that expectation feels uncomfortable, this role is not for you. If it energizes you—because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a student's potential—continue reading.

At Alpha, academic learning occurs through AI-powered applications. No traditional lectures. No textbooks. Half of your day is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering topics like public speaking, focus, and constructive feedback. The remaining half involves working with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress via Coachbot analytics, and driving each one toward 100% completion of their weekly app objectives. You will not follow a rigid script—workshops provide a foundation, but top performers in this role customize them and create new content when needed.

Success each quarter means every student in your cohort completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for all life-skills workshops, and 90% report a positive relationship with you. Falling short on any of these three measures means the role's core expectations were not met. In your first year, you will master the operational playbook; as you demonstrate your ability to uphold standards, opportunities open to advance to Lead Guide, where you mentor new hires while continuing direct student engagement.

If you prefer traditional classroom teaching, need fully developed curriculum handed to you, or view warmth and rigorous standards as incompatible, this position will not be a fit. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp counseling, tutoring where you refused to let students give up, or performing for young audiences, the final step before an offer is spending a full day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you most, submit your application today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts on subjects including public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational competencies, customizing the playbook and creating new sessions when you identify unmet needs
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions to ensure every student reaches 100% of their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your individual rapport with each student to overcome resistance
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill and coaching students who do not pass until mastery is achieved
• Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and physical engagement to 8th graders needing candid conversation and accountability
• Serving as the adult who maintains high expectations and the adult students trust and want to confide in; warmth creates the relational foundation to challenge, and challenge communicates your belief in their capability
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering instruction at a whiteboard; academic content is embedded in the apps, not your direct teaching
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; you activate an existing playbook through energy and narrative
• Passively monitoring students on computers; motivation in this context is active, personalized, and persistent
• Reducing a weekly target to enable a student to meet it; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the goal
• Marking homework, running standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent communication, and the other tasks do not exist in this model
  
  

Counselor Key Responsibilities

Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort achieves their weekly learning objectives, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and concludes the year reporting a positive relationship with you.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Denver, CO; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX (Central, South, or The Woodlands); Park City, UT; or Toronto, Canada (relocation assistance provided)
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• Minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (including classroom teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
• A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging objective: the objective itself, your actions, and the result
• Comfort allowing AI to manage instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Daily use of generative AI tools (such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto campus)
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward defined outcomes
• Personal track record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional) such that holding others to rigorous standards is consistent with your character, not simply a professional stance
• Storytelling ability and stage presence sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
• Demonstrated success converting disengaged or reluctant students into engaged, active learners
  
  

About Alpha

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.

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 (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 $50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 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-4415-US-Denver-Counselor.001