Student Excellence Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

• Based on-site at Alpha School campuses located in New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA; or Santa Barbara, CA
• Annual salary of $150,000, distributed weekly. Full health benefits begin on day one.
• Support for relocation provided
  
  

You understand that the most compassionate act for a student is maintaining rigorous standards. Your background includes competition, creation, or accomplishment at a tier most encounter only in articles: elite-level athletics, graduation with honors from a premier university, employment at a highly competitive organization, or a business you launched independently. Consider channeling that rigor into working with K-12 students who have never encountered someone of your caliber willing to hold them to expectations they didn't believe attainable. If the concept of maintaining elite standards for students strikes you as unreasonable, this opportunity is not for you.

Alpha deploys AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction enabling students to complete core academics in roughly two hours daily. The remainder of each day becomes available for life skills development, passion-based projects, and substantive personal growth. At Alpha's most demanding campuses, students require more than oversight. They require a credible mentor whose personal accomplishments model the standard: someone capable of assessing group dynamics, establishing expectations, and guiding them past resistance, distraction, and uncertainty.

Your role is not instructional. It is to coach, challenge, and maintain the same rigorous standards you've applied to yourself. Forty percent of your time consists of direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions identifying obstacles and establishing ambitious targets. Another forty percent involves facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery rather than engagement. The final twenty percent focuses on establishing daily tone: purposeful openings that cultivate a culture rejecting mediocrity.

The trajectory here emphasizes depth over management. You begin by mastering Alpha's methodology and establishing credibility with students. Within months, you become the individual they trust to push them beyond perceived limits. The return isn't a title change. It's observing a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a confident presentation to adults in May.

If you have sought a means to leverage your elite background for impact beyond personal achievement, submit your application now.

What You Will Be Doing

• Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions utilizing Coachbot analytics and student performance data to identify obstacles, establish ambitious targets, and ensure student accountability for execution
• Facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery by drawing on credible narratives from your elite background, then evaluating mastery via Alpha's Test2Pass framework
• Establishing campus-wide cultural expectations each morning through purposeful kickoffs that reinforce high-performance standards
• Monitoring student advancement in real time and modifying coaching approaches based on data rather than intuition
• Cultivating trusted mentor relationships with students and families through consistent high standards and documented motivational strategies
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Creating lesson plans, developing curriculum, or evaluating assignments (Alpha's academic framework manages instruction; you manage motivation)
• Delivering lectures to classrooms of 30 students (your focus is high-touch coaching in small settings, not large-group instruction)
• Supervising other staff or advancing through administrative ranks (this position centers on direct student impact, not organizational management)
• Attending faculty meetings or navigating institutional bureaucracy (your time remains concentrated on students)
• Reducing standards to achieve metrics (when a student reaches 99%, your responsibility is determining what prevented 100%)
  
  

Student Excellence Coach Key Responsibilities

Drive exceptional student motivation, growth, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's highest-expectation campuses.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• At least one instance of exceptional achievement in a highly selective, globally recognized domain (examples: national or international competition medals, top-tier university with distinction, highly selective firm or fellowship, elite performing arts institution, or founding and scaling a successful venture)
• At least 3 years of experience in student coaching, youth mentoring, athletic coaching, or leadership roles where you measurably raised others' performance
• Willing to work in-person at an Alpha campus in New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA; or Santa Barbara, CA (relocation support provided)
• Legal right to work in the United States
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in elite competitive athletics (varsity D1, national team, or professional level) with experience coaching or mentoring younger athletes
• Experience in high-accountability environments like management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership
• Track record of youth development through mentoring in non-academic settings (community organizations, after-school programs, sports camps)
• Comfort presenting to and building trust with high-expectation families paying premium private school tuition
  
  

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-5740-US-Chicago-StudentExcelle.003