Education Coach, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

• $120,000 annual W2 salary with weekly pay; full health, dental, and vision coverage begins day one
• On-site role at an Alpha K-8 school in Beverly Hills, CA; Piedmont, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Raleigh, NC; Portland, OR (relocation assistance available)
  
  

This is not a teaching position. This is a motivation position.

The kindest thing you can do for a student who reaches 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that principle makes you hesitate, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high expectations is how you demonstrate belief in a student's capacity, read on.

At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-driven applications. There are no lectures. No textbooks. Roughly 60% of your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions on topics like public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback exchange. Approximately 30% of your time involves sitting with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress via Coachbot analytics, and driving each one toward their weekly app targets. The remaining 10% is spent reviewing data to shape the following week's coaching strategy. You will not follow a rigid script; the workshops provide a foundation, and the most effective coaches customize them and create new content when necessary.

A successful semester means at least 90% of students in your cohort meet their weekly app targets, demonstrate quantifiable life-skill improvement on Test2Pass, and rate their experience with you at 4 out of 5 or higher. Falling short on any of these three measures means the role has not been fulfilled. When you consistently uphold these standards, advancement to Lead Guide becomes available — mentoring newer Guides while continuing to manage a cohort — and beyond that to Campus Lead, where you oversee an entire school and manage parent engagement.

If you prefer conventional teaching, want a ready-made curriculum, or think warmth and rigor are incompatible, this position is not the right fit. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp counseling, tutoring where you refused to let a student give up, or performing in front of middle schoolers, the final step before an offer is 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 sessions for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, feedback exchange, and other foundational competencies, customizing the existing framework and creating new sessions when you identify a need
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions that drive every student toward their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's reward structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your rapport with each student to overcome resistance
• Administering Test2Pass (Alpha's competency-based evaluation) for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who do not pass until they achieve mastery
• Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and physical activity to 8th graders needing direct conversation and personal accountability
• Analyzing weekly cohort performance metrics in Coachbot, pinpointing students falling behind, and modifying your coaching methods for the upcoming week based on data insights
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering instruction at a whiteboard; academic content is embedded in the applications, not delivered by you
• Creating an entire curriculum from scratch; you begin with an established playbook and enhance it with your own style and narrative skills
• Passively monitoring students on computers; motivation in this role is active, individualized, and persistent
• Navigating institutional approval processes to secure resources for students who need help; if a student requires additional coaching time, you decide and execute the same day
• Grading assignments, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent communications; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the rest does not apply here
  
  

Education Coach Key Responsibilities

Guarantee that every student in your K-8 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they valued their time with you.

Basic Requirements

• Available to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Beverly Hills, CA; Piedmont, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Raleigh, NC; Portland, OR (relocation assistance available)
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (classroom instruction, coaching, tutoring, camp leadership, or youth program management)
• A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: the objective, your actions, and the result
• Comfort with AI managing instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp direction, theater, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating students toward defined objectives
• History of personal excellence (academic, athletic, or professional), demonstrating that holding others to rigorous standards is intrinsic, not performative
• Communication and presentation skills capable of commanding a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without escalating volume
• Demonstrated ability to transform unengaged or reluctant students into active 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 $60 USD/hour, which equates to $120,000 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-5607-US-WestPalm-EducationCoach.023