Counselor, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

• $100,000 annual W2 salary with weekly pay; health, dental, and vision coverage begin on day one
• On-site role at an Alpha K-8 school 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 is not a teaching position. You motivate.

The most impactful thing you can do for a student who reaches 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation troubles you, this role is not a fit. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a student's potential, continue reading.

At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-driven applications. No lectures. No textbooks. Half your day is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions on topics like public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback. The other half, you meet with students individually or in small groups, analyze their progress using Coachbot data, and drive each one toward 100% completion of their weekly app objectives. You will not be reading from a script — sessions provide a framework, but top performers customize them and create new ones when needed.

A successful quarter means every student in your group completes their weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass for all life-skills workshops, and 90% report that they love you. Falling short on any of these three is falling short of the role. In your first year you'll internalize the system; once you demonstrate the ability to uphold expectations, you can advance to Lead Guide, where you mentor new team members while continuing direct work with students.

If you prefer traditional classroom teaching, want ready-made curriculum, or see warmth and rigor as incompatible, this role will not suit you. If you have been a sports coach, a camp counselor, a tutor who would not let a student give up, or a performer capable of commanding a room of eight-year-olds, the final stage before an offer is a full on-campus day 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 on public speaking, concentration, feedback, and other foundational competencies, customizing the framework and creating new sessions when you identify a need
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation meetings that drive every student to 100% completion of their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot data, Alpha's incentive structures (campus currency, leaderboards), and your connection with each student to overcome resistance
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill, and working with students who fall short until they achieve mastery
• Adjusting your approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and physical activity to 8th graders needing candid conversation and personal accountability
• Serving as the adult who maintains expectations and the adult students trust; warmth creates the credibility to challenge, and challenging demonstrates your confidence in their capability
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Teaching at a whiteboard; content instruction is embedded in the applications, not delivered by you
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; you activate an established framework through energy and narrative
• Monitoring students at workstations; motivation in this model is direct, individualized, and persistent
• Reducing a weekly target to enable a student to reach it; when a student falls behind, the solution is to support the student, not adjust the goal
• Grading assignments, preparing standardized test materials, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this environment
  
  

Counselor Key Responsibilities

Guarantee that every student in your K-8 group achieves their weekly learning objectives, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and concludes the year affirming they loved you.

Basic Requirements

• Able to work on-site 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 available
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (classroom instruction, coaching, tutoring, camp leadership, or youth program facilitation)
• A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging objective: the objective itself, your approach, and the result
• Comfort with AI managing instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development
• Regular use of generative AI platforms (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 extracurricular programs where you held direct accountability for motivating children toward defined outcomes
• Demonstrated record of personal achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that maintaining high expectations for others reflects a consistent standard, not an adopted stance
• Narrative and presentation skills sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
• History of converting disengaged or oppositional 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-ParkCity-Counselor