Youth Coach, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

• On-site position in Brownsville, TX (relocation support provided)
• $100,000 annual compensation, distributed weekly, with health benefits included
  
  

Most educators burn energy battling bureaucracy. Crafting lesson plans that vanish into filing systems. Enduring committee meetings that produce no real change. You recognized years ago that this isn't the work. The work is the student sitting in front of you.

Alpha's model assigns academic instruction to software. Adaptive applications guide each learner through coursework at an individualized pace. No traditional lectures, no assigned homework, no tests to grade. This structure liberates you to focus on what genuinely transforms lives: facilitating life skills workshops where teens develop public speaking ability, concentration techniques, and feedback literacy, then providing personalized coaching to maintain their drive and achieve learning milestones. You'll spend half your time leading group sessions. The other half involves one-on-one conversations with students, analyzing their Coachbot metrics to pinpoint obstacles and root causes.

After every workshop, students complete a mastery-based evaluation. You should earn strong approval from 90% of participants. Every student should be making measurable progress in their learning applications. These aren't stretch targets—they define the standard. Maintaining rigorous expectations demonstrates your confidence in their potential. Through this process, you'll develop expertise in creating workshops that captivate teenage audiences, leveraging advanced educational technology, and forming meaningful relationships with students and families. Our Brownsville location neighbors SpaceX. Educational innovation intersects with aerospace ambition, and you'll be the individual fulfilling Alpha's fundamental commitment: learners who are enthusiastic about school, accelerate at double the typical rate, and acquire capabilities with genuine real-world value. If you've been searching for an educational environment aligned with your vision of how schools should function, you've found it.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating hour-long life skills workshops for high school students addressing subjects like public speaking, concentration, and feedback exchange, followed by measuring competency via structured Test2Pass evaluations
• Conducting daily individual motivation sessions guided by Coachbot data to engage with students personally, diagnose barriers in their app-based learning, and help them overcome obstacles
• Collaborating with students to create personalized motivational frameworks, including reward systems and incentives that encourage autonomous advancement through academic applications
• Examining curriculum materials and session outlines prior to delivery, then adjusting your approach based on group dynamics and engagement
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Instructing core academic content. Software manages mathematics, literacy, and all other traditional subjects.
• Overseeing school administration or supervising staff. No budget responsibilities, no recruitment duties, no administrative meetings; your complete attention remains on your student group.
• Enforcing rules through conventional disciplinary measures. No detention assignments, no suspension decisions, no authoritarian directives. You rely on reasoning and affirmative reinforcement to cultivate a respectful, energized learning culture.
  
  

Youth Coach Key Responsibilities

Develop a cohort of high school learners who are passionate about school, achieve 2x learning velocity through adaptive technology, and exhibit mastery of practical life competencies.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any field
• 3 years of direct experience working with high school students (ages 13-18)
• Willingness to work on-site in Brownsville, TX (relocation support provided)
• Legal authorization to work in the US
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience as a sports coach, camp facilitator, or youth program coordinator who has inspired teenagers in non-classroom settings
• Demonstrated success guiding groups to quantifiable outcomes (completion metrics, performance standards, behavioral improvements)
• Familiarity with adaptive learning systems or educational technology platforms
• Narrative skills that command teenage audiences' focus, presented with cultural sensitivity and authentic connection
  
  

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 $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-5771-US-Brownsvi-YouthCoach