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

• $120,000 annually as a W2 employee, paid weekly; health, dental, and vision coverage begins on day one
• On-site at an Alpha K-8 school 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 (we provide relocation support)
  
  

You are not here to teach. You are here to drive motivation.

The most meaningful thing you can do for a student who reaches 99% of their goal is to refuse to call it complete. If that standard makes you uncomfortable, this role is not for you. If it excites you because holding the line is how you signal belief in a student's capacity, read on.

At Alpha, students complete their academic learning through AI-powered applications. No lectures. No textbooks. Roughly 60% of your time is spent leading one-hour workshops on life skills like public speaking, focus, and giving and receiving constructive feedback. Around 30% of your time is dedicated to 1:1 or small-group sessions, where you review student progress using Coachbot analytics and push each learner toward their weekly app targets. The remaining 10% involves analyzing data to shape the following week's coaching strategy. You will not follow a rigid script; workshops serve as a foundation, and top performers in this role customize them and create new ones when needed.

A semester is successful when at least 90% of your cohort meets their weekly app goals, demonstrates measurable progress on Test2Pass life-skill assessments, and rates their experience with you at 4/5 or higher. Falling short on any of these three metrics means the role has not been fulfilled. As you demonstrate your ability to maintain high standards, opportunities open to advance to Lead Guide — where you mentor newer Guides while continuing to lead a cohort — and eventually to Campus Lead, overseeing an entire school and managing parent engagement.

If you prefer traditional classroom teaching, need a curriculum delivered to you, or think warmth and rigor cannot coexist, this position is not a fit. If you have been an athletic coach, a camp counselor, a tutor who refused to let a student give up, or a performer capable of commanding a room of 12-year-olds, the final step before an offer is spending a full day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you most, apply today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, feedback skills, and other foundational competencies, customizing the existing playbook and creating new sessions when you identify a need
• Conducting daily 1:1 and small-group sessions to motivate every student toward their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and individual relationships to overcome resistance
• Administering Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based life-skill assessments) and coaching students who fall short until they achieve passing results
• Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and physical engagement to 8th graders needing candid conversation and accountability
• Analyzing weekly cohort performance data in Coachbot, pinpointing students who are falling behind, and modifying your coaching tactics for the upcoming week based on the insights the data provides
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Teaching content at a whiteboard; academic instruction is delivered through the apps, not by you
• Designing an entire curriculum from scratch; you begin with a tested playbook and personalize it with your own voice and approach
• Monitoring students passively as they use computers; motivation in this role is active, individualized, and persistent
• Waiting for bureaucratic approval to support a struggling student; if a child needs additional coaching time, you decide and execute the same day
• Grading assignments, running standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent communication, and the rest does not exist in this model
  
  

Youth Coach Key Responsibilities

Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, masters each life skill, and finishes the year saying they loved you.

Basic Requirements

• Willing 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 provided)
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• At least 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (classroom teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
• A concrete example you can share of motivating a K-8 student to achieve a challenging goal: the goal itself, your actions, and the result
• Comfortable allowing AI to deliver instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Legal 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 motivating children toward measurable outcomes
• Personal track record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional) that makes holding others to demanding standards natural, not performative
• Storytelling ability and stage presence sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
• Demonstrated success converting disengaged or resistant students into motivated, active learners
  
  

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-FortLaud-YouthCoach