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

• $120,000 annual W2 compensation, distributed weekly; comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage begins day one
• On-campus placement at an Alpha K-8 location in Beverly Hills, CA; Palo Alto, CA; Piedmont, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Raleigh, NC; Portland, OR (relocation assistance available)
  
  

This is not a teaching position. This is a motivation role.

The most meaningful way to support a student who reaches 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that approach troubles you, this role is not for you. If it energizes you—because maintaining the standard is how you demonstrate belief in a student's potential—read on.

At Alpha, academic content is delivered through AI-powered applications. No traditional lectures. No textbooks. Approximately 60% of your time is spent facilitating one-hour workshops on life skills: public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback exchange. Around 30% involves individual and small-group sessions where you examine student progress via Coachbot analytics and drive each student toward their weekly application goals. The remaining 10% is dedicated to data analysis that informs the following week's coaching strategy. You will not follow a rigid script; workshops serve as frameworks, and high performers in this role customize them and create new content when needed.

Success in a semester is defined by three metrics: at least 90% of your cohort achieving weekly app goals, demonstrable life-skill improvement on Test2Pass, and a 4/5 or higher satisfaction rating from students. Falling short on any metric means falling short of the role. As you demonstrate your ability to maintain standards, advancement opportunities open to Lead Guide—where you coach newer Guides while managing a cohort—and eventually to Campus Lead, where you oversee an entire school and manage parent engagement.

If you prefer traditional pedagogy, need pre-built curriculum, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible, this position is not suitable. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp leadership, tutoring where you refused to let students give up, or performance experience that allowed you to command a room of middle schoolers, the final step before an offer is a full day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you most, submit your application today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, concentration, feedback exchange, and other foundational competencies, customizing the framework and creating new sessions when you identify needs
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions that drive every student toward weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's reward structures (school currency, leaderboards), and individual relationships to overcome resistance
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's competency-based evaluation) for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who do not achieve passing until mastery is demonstrated
• Modifying your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and physical activity to 8th graders needing direct communication and accountability
• Analyzing weekly cohort performance metrics in Coachbot, pinpointing students falling behind, and modifying your coaching methods for the upcoming week based on data insights
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Teaching from a whiteboard; academic instruction is delivered through applications, not by you
• Creating a complete curriculum from scratch; you begin with an established framework and personalize it with your energy and narrative approach
• Passively monitoring students at workstations; motivation in this role is proactive, individualized, and persistent
• Working through bureaucratic processes to secure resources for struggling students; if a student requires additional coaching time, you decide and implement immediately
• Assessing homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent correspondence; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this role
  
  

Youth Coach Key Responsibilities

Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and concludes the year expressing that they valued their experience with you.

Basic Requirements

• Able to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Beverly Hills, CA; Palo Alto, CA; Piedmont, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Raleigh, NC; Portland, OR (relocation assistance provided)
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• Minimum 3 years of direct experience with K-8 students (teaching in classrooms, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program management)
• A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: the objective, your actions, and the result
• Comfort allowing AI to manage instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development
• Authorization to work in the US without requiring visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp direction, theater, or after-school programming where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward defined outcomes
• Demonstrated personal achievement (academic, athletic, or professional) that reflects a consistent commitment to maintaining high standards, not simply adopting a stance
• Narrative ability and stage command sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to elevate your voice
• Proven ability to convert disengaged or reluctant students into engaged contributors
  
  

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-SanFranc-YouthCoach