Performance Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

• On-site in Atlanta, GA; Oklahoma City, OK; Keller (Fort Worth), TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT
• $150,000 annual salary, distributed weekly. Full health benefits from day one
• Relocating? Support is included
  
  

The best way to support a student who achieves 99% is to hold the line and not call it 100%.

At Alpha, this isn't up for discussion. It's embedded in how we operate. Students engage with academic content through self-directed applications rather than traditional instructor-led lessons. This structure allows you to focus on what genuinely drives transformation: facilitating high-impact sessions on public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback. You'll use live data to motivate students toward complete goal achievement. You'll develop the Guides working with you. Your resources include analytics, a tested playbook, and the kind of presence that commands attention from middle schoolers.

A typical morning may include a one-on-one development session with a Guide, analyzing Coachbot data and pinpointing where a group is underperforming. By midday you're facilitating a live student workshop, executing a playbook module on feedback exchange. Afternoons are reserved for motivation work: engaging with individual students, uncovering their drivers, and leveraging Alpha's incentive architecture (school currency, leaderboards) to re-engage a reluctant 7th grader. You maintain direct ownership of a cohort, keeping your skills aligned with what you're coaching others to build.

Three outcomes define your success: students love school, they progress at double the rate of conventional classrooms, and they develop authentic life skills. You'll coach other Guides immediately. As you scale results, your influence over campus program quality expands.

Uphold the standard. Transform the student. Apply now.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating hour-long live sessions on life skills (public speaking, focus, feedback exchange) for K-8 students, using Alpha's playbook
• Conducting motivation interventions with Coachbot analytics and Alpha's incentive framework (school currency, leaderboards) to achieve 100% student goal attainment
• Developing Guides on program fidelity and standards execution, ensuring every coaching interaction yields concrete improvement steps
• Managing your own student cohort while simultaneously building capacity in other Guides
• Monitoring student satisfaction metrics, goal completion percentages, and Guide performance indicators
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Lecturing or providing academic tutoring. Students engage with content through applications.
• Creating curriculum or lesson plans. Alpha's playbook serves as your operating framework, allowing you to concentrate on delivery and relationship-building.
• Accepting 99% as sufficient. Maintaining the standard demonstrates your belief in their ability to reach 100%.
• Coaching Guides on instructional methods. Guides facilitate rather than teach, so your coaching focuses on energy, motivation, and accountability.
  
  

Performance Coach Key Responsibilities

Fulfill Alpha's 3 Promises for every student in your level: they love school, they learn at twice the speed of traditional classrooms, and they develop real life skills.

Basic Requirements

• Currently located in or willing to relocate to Atlanta, GA; Oklahoma City, OK; Keller (Fort Worth), TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation support available)
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or a related field
• Minimum 5 years of experience in education, learning and development (L&D), coaching, or a related field
• Demonstrated experience developing and executing educational programs, training initiatives, or curricula
• Proven experience leading a team of 5 or more people, including hiring and performance-based termination decisions
• Background working with youth ages 5-14 in an educational or developmental context
• Experience leveraging data analysis and metrics to inform decision-making and drive continuous improvement
• Legal authorization to work in the United States
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Master's degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or a related field
• Experience in athletic coaching, camp counseling, or youth performance programs with measurable outcomes and enforced standards
• Background coaching adults in professional development or instructional coaching settings
• Demonstrated history of improving measurable results (completion rates, satisfaction scores, team performance) through leadership
  
  

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 $75 USD/hour, which equates to $150,000 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-4844-US-Elizabet-PerformanceCoa.022