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

• $120,000/year W2 salary with weekly pay; health, dental, and vision benefits begin day one
• On-site role at an Alpha K-8 campus located in Beverly Hills, CA; La Jolla (San Diego), CA; Palo Alto, CA; Piedmont, CA; South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Raleigh, NC; Portland, OR (relocation support available)
  
  

This is not a teaching role. This is about motivation.

The most meaningful way to support a student who reaches 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as finished. If that principle unsettles you, this role is not for you. If it energizes you—because maintaining high expectations is how you demonstrate belief in a student's capability—read on.

At Alpha, students complete their academic learning through AI-driven applications. There are no lectures or textbooks. Roughly 60% of your time will be spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering topics such as public speaking, focus, and constructive feedback. Approximately 30% of your week involves meeting with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress via Coachbot analytics, and guiding each toward their weekly app targets. The remaining 10% is dedicated to data analysis, which informs your coaching strategy for the week ahead. You will not follow a rigid script; workshops serve as a foundation, and top performers in this role modify them and create new content as needed.

A successful semester means at least 90% of students in your cohort meet their weekly app goals, demonstrate measurable improvement in life skills via Test2Pass, and provide a rating of 4/5 or higher for their experience with you. Falling short on any of these metrics means the role has not been fulfilled. Once you demonstrate your ability to uphold these standards, advancement opportunities include Lead Guide—mentoring newer Guides while continuing to lead a cohort—and eventually Campus Lead, where you oversee an entire school and manage parent engagement.

If you prefer traditional classroom instruction, need pre-built curriculum, or see warmth and rigor as incompatible, this position is not a fit. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp counseling, tutoring students through resistance, or performing in front of middle schoolers, the final stage before an offer is a full day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you, apply today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, feedback exchange, and other foundational skills, modifying the existing playbook and creating new sessions as you identify needs
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions to drive every student toward their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's reward structures (school currency, leaderboards), and personal relationships to overcome resistance
• Administering Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based life-skills assessment) and coaching students who do not achieve passing scores until mastery is demonstrated
• Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring dynamic, movement-based engagement to 8th graders needing direct conversation and accountability
• Analyzing weekly cohort performance metrics in Coachbot, pinpointing students falling behind, and recalibrating your coaching tactics 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 apps, not delivered by you
• Creating a full curriculum from scratch; you begin with an established playbook and personalize it with your own style and narrative skills
• Passively monitoring students on devices; motivation in this role is hands-on, individualized, and persistent
• Working through layers of approval to secure support for students in need; if a student requires additional coaching, you decide and implement immediately
• Grading assignments, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent communication, and the other tasks do not apply here
  
  

Education Coach Key Responsibilities

Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, masters each life skill, and finishes the year expressing genuine appreciation for you.

Basic Requirements

• Able to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Beverly Hills, CA; La Jolla (San Diego), CA; Palo Alto, CA; Piedmont, CA; South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Raleigh, NC; Portland, OR (relocation support available)
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• Minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (including classroom teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
• A concrete example you can describe of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: the objective, your actions, and the result
• Comfort with AI delivering academic instruction while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development
• Authorization to work in the US without requiring visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for driving kids toward measurable goals
• History of personal excellence (academic, athletic, or professional) that makes holding others to rigorous standards a natural inclination rather than an adopted stance
• Narrative skill and stage presence capable of engaging a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
• Demonstrated success transforming disengaged or reluctant students into committed participants
  
  

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-Portland-EducationCoach.010