What are the responsibilities and job description for the Early Childhood Specialist, Alpha - $100,000/year USD position at Crossover?
Children may not recall every lesson taught to them. But they always remember the adult who had unwavering belief in their potential. That's what this role is about.
At Alpha, academic work is completed in just two hours daily through adaptive learning technology. This structure allows Guides to dedicate their time to what truly transforms lives: cultivating confidence, resilience, communication skills, and the drive to pursue challenging goals. Your day won't involve standing at the front of a classroom delivering lessons. Instead, you'll coach students through obstacles, recognize their achievements, and demonstrate what rigorous standards look like when combined with authentic support.
You'll guide one K-3 cohort band—either Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd grade. Half of each day is devoted to facilitating dynamic, one-hour workshops focused on life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and receiving feedback. The remaining time is spent coaching students in individual and small-group settings, leveraging learning analytics to ensure each child progresses toward ambitious weekly objectives. Every moment counts. Students should emerge from your workshops more skilled than when they entered and leave coaching sessions with expanded belief in their own capabilities.
This position isn't suited for someone seeking to deliver curriculum or manage a traditional classroom. It's designed for someone who finds joy in motivating young children, values measurable progress, and understands that the right coach can alter a child's entire path. If you've energized kids as a teacher, coach, camp counselor, youth leader, or performer, you'll discover a distinctly different kind of classroom environment here.
This is a full-time, on-site position at an Alpha campus. Because we recruit nationally, job boards may list this opportunity in nearby cities without a campus.
Current openings at this salary tier are located in Scottsdale, AZ; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, Georgetown, Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, and Houston, TX; and Park City (Salt Lake City area), UT.
If another Alpha campus interests you, submit your application anyway and indicate your preferred location—we'll evaluate you for the relevant opening.
What You Will Be Doing
Develop a cohort of K-3 students who are enthusiastic about attending school, reliably meet ambitious learning objectives, and acquire the life skills that equip them for long-term success beyond elementary school.
Basic Requirements
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-5149-US-SaltLake-EarlyChildhood.005
At Alpha, academic work is completed in just two hours daily through adaptive learning technology. This structure allows Guides to dedicate their time to what truly transforms lives: cultivating confidence, resilience, communication skills, and the drive to pursue challenging goals. Your day won't involve standing at the front of a classroom delivering lessons. Instead, you'll coach students through obstacles, recognize their achievements, and demonstrate what rigorous standards look like when combined with authentic support.
You'll guide one K-3 cohort band—either Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd grade. Half of each day is devoted to facilitating dynamic, one-hour workshops focused on life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and receiving feedback. The remaining time is spent coaching students in individual and small-group settings, leveraging learning analytics to ensure each child progresses toward ambitious weekly objectives. Every moment counts. Students should emerge from your workshops more skilled than when they entered and leave coaching sessions with expanded belief in their own capabilities.
This position isn't suited for someone seeking to deliver curriculum or manage a traditional classroom. It's designed for someone who finds joy in motivating young children, values measurable progress, and understands that the right coach can alter a child's entire path. If you've energized kids as a teacher, coach, camp counselor, youth leader, or performer, you'll discover a distinctly different kind of classroom environment here.
This is a full-time, on-site position at an Alpha campus. Because we recruit nationally, job boards may list this opportunity in nearby cities without a campus.
Current openings at this salary tier are located in Scottsdale, AZ; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, Georgetown, Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, and Houston, TX; and Park City (Salt Lake City area), UT.
If another Alpha campus interests you, submit your application anyway and indicate your preferred location—we'll evaluate you for the relevant opening.
What You Will Be Doing
- Facilitate dynamic life-skills workshops that enable K-3 students to develop communication, focus, feedback skills, and other enduring capabilities through active engagement rather than passive listening.
- Provide one-on-one and small-group coaching, utilizing Coachbot analytics, established motivation frameworks, and meaningful relationships to ensure every child advances toward ambitious weekly learning targets.
- Evaluate life-skill proficiency using Alpha's Test2Pass framework, coaching students until they show genuine mastery—not merely attendance.
- Tailor your coaching approach to match the developmental stage of your cohort, incorporating songs, movement, and storytelling for younger children or emphasizing greater independence and accountability for older students.
- Cultivate relationships where students feel secure enough to push beyond their perceived limits.
- Teaching academic lessons from a whiteboard. Students complete academic work through adaptive software.
- Creating curriculum from the ground up. You'll refine and customize proven playbooks rather than designing lessons from scratch.
- Observing students as they work quietly on computers. Your function is active coaching, inspiration, and relationship-building.
- Reducing expectations when students face difficulties. Success emerges from supporting students to meet the goal, not adjusting the goal downward.
- Overseeing homework, grading assignments, or managing routine parent correspondence.
Develop a cohort of K-3 students who are enthusiastic about attending school, reliably meet ambitious learning objectives, and acquire the life skills that equip them for long-term success beyond elementary school.
Basic Requirements
- Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus. Current openings at this salary tier are located in Scottsdale, AZ; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, Georgetown, Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, and Houston, TX; and Park City (Salt Lake City area), UT.
- Bachelor's degree in any field.
- Minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4-9 in teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, or comparable settings.
- Demonstrated history of inspiring young children to reach challenging objectives, with concrete examples of your influence.
- Comfort working with AI-powered learning tools while directing your own efforts toward coaching, motivation, and life-skill cultivation.
- Capacity to combine warmth with consistently high expectations.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship.
- Background in youth athletics, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori education, progressive schooling, or high-engagement after-school programs.
- Personal history of accomplishing ambitious objectives in academics, sports, or your professional career.
- Exceptional storytelling or performance abilities that naturally engage young children's attention.
- Track record of transforming hesitant or reserved children into confident, active participants.
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-5149-US-SaltLake-EarlyChildhood.005
Salary : $100,000