Life Skills Coach, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

• On-site in Houston, TX—campuses located in Central Houston, South Houston, or The Woodlands (relocation assistance available)
• $100,000 annual salary, distributed weekly. Full health, dental, and vision coverage begins day one
  
  

The most meaningful thing you can do for a student who reaches 99% of their target is to insist they finish. If that expectation feels uncomfortable, this position isn't the right fit. If it energizes you because you understand that maintaining high standards demonstrates your belief in a student's potential, continue reading.

Alpha operates differently from conventional schools. Students complete a full day's worth of academics in roughly two hours using adaptive software. No traditional lectures. No textbooks. Your role centers on what technology cannot replicate: developing life skills in Pre-K through 8th grade students—skills like public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback exchange. You'll spend half your time facilitating hands-on workshops guided by structured playbooks and narrative techniques. The remaining half involves working with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress through Coachbot analytics from adaptive learning platforms, and ensuring they reach 100% of their weekly objectives. Students demonstrate mastery via Test2Pass assessments rather than participation-based grading.

During your first year, you'll oversee a student cohort and become proficient in Alpha's methodology: life skill workshops, motivational coaching sessions, and mastery-based evaluation. Once you consistently guide every student to 100% goal completion while maintaining satisfaction scores above 90%, advancement to Lead Guide becomes available—a role where you mentor other Guides while remaining directly engaged with students. The most effective people in this position don't merely transform individual trajectories; they influence how an entire campus functions.

If you've spent years coaching, counseling, or mentoring young people and wished you could eliminate traditional instruction to concentrate on their genuine development, this opportunity is designed for you.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life skill workshops for Pre-K–8 students covering public speaking, concentration, teamwork, and feedback exchange (experiential and project-oriented)
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivational sessions where you analyze each student's adaptive learning app progress (via Coachbot analytics), establish objectives, and ensure they reach 100% of their weekly benchmarks
• Overseeing and assessing Test2Pass evaluations to verify students have genuinely mastered each life skill rather than simply attended
• Adjusting your coaching approach across diverse age groups, from Pre-K learners requiring high energy and physical activity to 8th graders needing direct conversation and responsibility
• Establishing authentic connections with each student so they trust you sufficiently to receive coaching through obstacles, distraction, and uncertainty
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering lectures or conventional academic instruction (students acquire core subjects through adaptive applications, not through your teaching)
• Creating lesson plans or curriculum independently (Alpha supplies life skills playbooks; your responsibility is to execute them with enthusiasm and narrative skill)
• Handling parent communications or administrative duties (Campus Leads manage those areas; you remain concentrated on your students)
• Evaluating homework or coordinating standardized test preparation (these elements don't exist in our model)
• Operating independently (you belong to a campus team including Lead Guides, Campus Leads, and colleagues who exchange feedback and maintain mutual accountability)
  
  

Life Skills Coach Key Responsibilities

Guarantee that every student in your cohort enjoys school, achieves proficiency in critical life skills, and completes 100% of their academic objectives through adaptive learning technology.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• 3 years of direct experience working with Pre-K–8 students (in teaching, coaching, counseling, or youth program management)
• Demonstrated experience motivating or coaching Pre-K–8 students toward academic, behavioral, or extracurricular objectives, with at least one concrete example you can articulate (including the objective, your actions, and the result)
• Regular use of generative AI platforms (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
• Available to work on-site at Alpha's Central Houston, South Houston, or The Woodlands campus (relocation assistance provided)
• Authorized to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, camp direction, or after-school programming where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward defined goals
• History of significant personal accomplishment (academic distinctions, competitive athletics, or leadership positions requiring sustained high performance)
• Innate storytelling capability: you can maintain the attention of a room full of 12-year-olds for an hour without increasing your volume
• Success motivating unmotivated or reluctant students and converting them into engaged participants
  
  

About Alpha

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-5767-US-SugarLan-LifeSkillsCoac