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

• $100,000 annual W2 compensation, distributed weekly; comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
• Full-time on-site position at an Alpha campus located in Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation assistance available)
  
  

Your role is not teaching. Your role is motivation.

The most effective support you can offer a six-year-old who reached 99% of their target is to hold firm and not call it complete. If that expectation feels uncomfortable, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a kindergartener's potential, continue reading.

Alpha students in grades K-2 complete their academic learning through AI-driven applications over two hours daily. No traditional lectures. No printed worksheets. You will spend half your day facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, concentration, and peer feedback for cohorts of students. These workshops serve as frameworks, not rigid scripts — top performers in this position customize them for their group and create new content when gaps emerge. During the remaining half, you conduct 1:1 or small-group sessions, analyze Coachbot data, and guide each child toward completing 100% of their weekly application targets. With five- and six-year-olds, energy and playfulness are not optional add-ons; they are the foundation for sustaining attention long enough to achieve learning outcomes. Building rapport earns you the credibility to challenge them. Challenging them communicates your confidence in their ability to succeed.

A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass assessment for every life-skills workshop, and 90% report loving you. Falling short on any of these three metrics means the role is not being fulfilled. During your first year you will internalize the operational model; once you demonstrate consistent ability to uphold standards, advancement to Lead Guide becomes available, where you mentor new hires while continuing direct work with students.

If you prefer conventional teaching models, need fully developed curriculum delivered to you, or view warmth and rigorous expectations as incompatible, this position is not suitable. If you have experience as an early-elementary educator who excelled at circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports coach, a children's theater performer, or anyone capable of commanding a room of kindergarteners through vocal presence, play, and pure energy, the final hiring step is a shadow day on campus where you coach 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 groups of 10-15 K-2 students, covering public speaking, concentration, peer feedback, and other foundational competencies
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions to keep students progressing toward weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (campus currency, leaderboards), and the personal connection you develop with each child
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill, and providing coaching to students who do not pass until mastery is achieved
• Engaging kindergarteners through songs, narratives, physical activity, and humor, while simultaneously maintaining concrete, measurable expectations for first and second graders
• Serving as the welcoming adult children are excited to see at morning arrival AND the adult who will not permit them to settle for less than their capability
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering whiteboard-based lectures; academic content is embedded in the applications, not delivered by you
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; Alpha supplies the operational framework and you animate it
• Passively monitoring children at computers; motivation in this model is active, individualized, and continuous
• Reducing a weekly target to allow a child to reach it; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the goal
• Evaluating homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent communications; Campus Leads manage family-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this environment
  
  

Early Childhood Specialist Key Responsibilities

Guarantee that every student in your K-2 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and concludes the year reporting that they loved you.

Basic Requirements

• Available to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation assistance provided)
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• Minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4 to 8 (including early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
• A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a young child toward a challenging objective: the objective itself, your actions, and the result
• Capacity to participate in a paid training program at our Austin, TX campus
• Comfort allowing AI to manage instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating young children toward defined objectives
• History of personal high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that maintaining rigorous standards for others is a consistent trait, not an adopted stance
• Innate performer's energy with young children — the capacity to command a room of kindergarteners through vocal delivery, humor, and physical engagement
• Demonstrated ability to transform hesitant or reluctant young children into confident, engaged 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-5149-US-SaltLake-EarlyChildhood