Early Childhood Specialist, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

• On-site at Alpha School locations: Phoenix, Arizona; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Austin, Texas; Fort Worth, Texas; Houston, Texas; Park City (Salt Lake City), Utah
• $100,000 annual salary, with weekly pay. Full health benefits starting day one
• Relocation assistance provided
  
  

The best way to help a six-year-old navigate a challenge is to guide them toward solving it themselves. You empower them to find their own way through. If that approach doesn't resonate with you, this position isn't the right fit.

Alpha operates differently from traditional schools. Academic learning happens through adaptive software that allows students to progress at their own speed. There are no lectures, no worksheets, no standardized pacing for everyone. Your role is to ensure a small group of K-2 students is excited to come in each morning, achieves their weekly learning targets, and develops life skills many adults still lack.

You'll facilitate interactive workshops covering public speaking, concentration, and feedback skills with five-, six-, and seven-year-old learners. You'll guide students as they work through learning applications—not by supplying answers, but by helping them cultivate problem-solving strategies to persist independently. When every student in your group meets their weekly targets and 90% rate you as someone they value working with, you'll have confirmation you're succeeding.

This role isn't about supervising children using computers. It's performance-driven coaching where student progress is monitored, every interaction has a quantifiable result, and your effectiveness is reflected in metrics, not just intuition. If you're convinced that children have unlimited potential and that conventional education limits them, this is your opportunity to demonstrate it.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life skills workshops covering subjects such as public speaking, concentration, and giving/receiving feedback for a small cohort of K-2 students
• Guiding students through adaptive learning platforms by helping them build strategies for overcoming obstacles, rather than providing direct answers
• Conducting motivation sessions that leverage Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, goal-setting) to ensure 100% of students reach their weekly learning objectives
• Administering and delivering mastery-based evaluations (Test2Pass) to validate that students have genuinely mastered each skill
• Studying curriculum and lesson materials daily, then tailoring your approach according to each student's profile, interests, and performance data
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Standing in front of a classroom lecturing or teaching academic subjects (students learn academics via apps; you facilitate life skills and motivation)
• Creating lesson plans from the ground up or designing curriculum (Alpha supplies the curriculum and frameworks; you provide the execution and enthusiasm)
• Reducing standards when students face difficulties (Alpha's approach requires every student to achieve mastery; accepting 90% performance isn't permitted)
• Handling parent correspondence or supervising school operations (those responsibilities belong to the Campus Lead)
  
  

Early Childhood Specialist Key Responsibilities

Guide a small group of K-2 students to develop life skills and achieve their academic targets every week.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any field
• Minimum of 3 years working with children ages 4 to 8 in educational settings, afterschool programs, coaching, or comparable environments
• Experience facilitating structured group activities for young children that balance clear expectations with strong engagement
• Willingness to work on-site at an Alpha campus located in Phoenix, Arizona; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Park City (Salt Lake City), Utah; Austin, Texas; Fort Worth, Texas; or Houston, Texas
• Available to participate in a paid training program at our Austin, Texas campus
• Legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience in youth sports coaching, theater instruction, or camp leadership where you maintained both children's attention AND accountability to standards
• Background using data or analytics to monitor student or participant progress and modify your methods accordingly
• Demonstrated ability to accept feedback and make visible adjustments to your working methods based on it
• Knowledge of growth mindset coaching methods or positive behavioral systems for young children
  
  

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-5149-US-Philadel-EarlyChildhood.029