Counselor, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

• $100,000 annual W2 compensation, distributed weekly; full health, dental, and vision coverage begins day one
• On-site role at an Alpha K-8 school in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; Denver, CO; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston (Central, South, or The Woodlands), TX; Park City, UT (Salt Lake City area) — relocation assistance available
  
  

This is not a teaching position. You motivate.

The most helpful thing you can do for a student who reached 99% of their target is to refuse to call it finished. If that expectation unsettles you, this role is not a fit. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a student's capability, continue reading.

At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-powered applications. No classroom lectures. No physical textbooks. Half of your day is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions covering topics like public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback exchange. The other 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 targets. You will not be reading from a script — workshop materials are a foundation, but top performers in this role modify them and create new content when needed.

A successful quarter means every student in your cohort completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass assessment for every life-skills workshop, and 90% report that they love you. Falling short on any of these three metrics means the role expectations are not being met. In your first year you internalize the methodology; as you demonstrate your ability to uphold standards, advancement opportunities open to Lead Guide, where you mentor new hires while continuing direct student work.

If you prefer traditional classroom instruction, want ready-made curriculum delivered to you, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible, this position is not for you. If you have experience as a sports coach, camp counselor, tutor who refused to let students give up, or performer capable of commanding a room of eight-year-olds, the final step before an offer is 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 sessions for K-8 groups covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other essential skills, modifying the framework and creating new sessions when you identify needs
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation meetings that drive every student to 100% of their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's reward systems (school currency, leaderboards), and your personal connection with each student to overcome resistance
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill, and continuing to coach 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 activity to 8th graders needing direct conversation and personal accountability
• Serving as the adult who maintains expectations and the adult students trust; connection earns you permission to challenge, and challenging demonstrates your confidence in their potential
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering whiteboard lessons; academic content is housed in the applications, not delivered by you
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; you animate an established framework with enthusiasm and narrative
• Monitoring students at workstations; motivation in this context is hands-on, interpersonal, and persistent
• Reducing a weekly target to enable a student to reach it; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the goal
• Evaluating assignments, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage family communication, and the other tasks do not exist in this model
  
  

Counselor Key Responsibilities

Guarantee that every student in your K-8 cohort completes their weekly learning targets, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they loved you.

Basic Requirements

• Able to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; 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 — relocation assistance available
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (classroom instruction, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program management)
• A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging objective: the objective, your actions, and the result
• Comfort allowing AI to deliver instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Regular use of generative AI platforms (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
• Legal authorization to work in the US 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 programming where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward defined objectives
• History of personal high performance (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to demanding standards is intrinsic, not affected
• Narrative and presentation skills strong enough to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
• Demonstrated ability to convert disengaged or reluctant students into active contributors
  
  

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-FortWort-Counselor