Counselor, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

• $100,000 annual W2 salary with weekly pay; health, dental, and vision benefits begin on day one
• On-site role at an Alpha K-8 campus located in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; 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 role is not about teaching. It is about motivation.

The most effective support you can offer a student who reaches 99% of their goal is to hold the line and refuse to call it complete. If that expectation feels uncomfortable, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards is your way of showing students you believe in their capability, continue reading.

Alpha students complete academic learning through AI-driven applications. There are no lectures or textbooks. You will spend half your day facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering topics such as 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 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 gaps appear.

A successful quarter means every student in your cohort completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for all life-skills workshops, and 90% report they love you. Falling short on any of these three measures means the job has not been done. During your first year, you will internalize the playbook; once you demonstrate your ability to uphold these standards, progression to Lead Guide becomes possible, where you mentor new hires while continuing to work directly with students.

If you are drawn to traditional classroom teaching, prefer pre-packaged curriculum, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible, this position is not suitable. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp counseling, tutoring with refusal to let students quit, or performing for groups of young children, the final step before receiving 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 covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other essential skills, modifying the playbook and creating new sessions when you identify unmet needs
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions designed to drive every student to 100% completion of their weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your personal connection with each student to overcome resistance
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) 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 activity to 8th graders needing direct conversation and accountability
• Serving as the adult who maintains high expectations and whom students trust and want to engage with; warmth creates the foundation for pushing students, and that push demonstrates your belief in their potential
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering whiteboard lectures; academic content is provided through the apps, not through direct instruction
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; your role is to animate an established playbook with energy and narrative skill
• Passively monitoring students on computers; motivation in this context is active, personalized, and continuous
• Reducing weekly goals to make them easier for a student to achieve; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the target
• Grading assignments, facilitating standardized test preparation, or handling parent communications; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this model
  
  

Counselor Key Responsibilities

Drive every student in your K-8 cohort to complete their weekly learning goals, achieve mastery in each life skill, and finish the year reporting that they loved you.

Basic Requirements

• Able to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; 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 provided
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• Minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (classroom teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
• Ability to describe a concrete example of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: including the goal itself, your actions, and the result
• Comfort with allowing AI to manage instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Daily usage of generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
• Authorization to work in the US without requiring 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 objectives
• Personal track record of significant achievement (academic, athletic, or professional) that demonstrates holding others to high standards is natural behavior, not an adopted stance
• Narrative 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 resistant students into engaged contributors
  
  

About Alpha

Join the team building school around student growth

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills.

Roles with real student impact: Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members.

Education work that pays like it matters: Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience.

A culture built for builders: Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. It’s for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it.

Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career.

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-Scottsda-Counselor.002