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

• W2 salary of $120,000/year paid weekly; comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits begin on day one
• In-person placement at an Alpha K-8 campus located in Beverly Hills, 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)
  
  

You do not teach. You inspire action.

The kindest thing you can do for a student who reached 99% of their target is to call it what it is: incomplete. If that mindset makes you uneasy, this role is not for you. But if it energizes you—because maintaining high expectations is how you signal your belief in a student's potential—then read on.

At Alpha, students complete their academic work through AI-driven applications. No classroom lectures. No traditional textbooks. Roughly 60% of your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions covering topics like public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback. Around 30% of your time is devoted to individual or small-group check-ins where you analyze Coachbot performance data and guide each student toward their weekly app targets. The remaining 10% involves reviewing metrics that inform your coaching strategy for the week ahead. You are not following a rigid script; workshops serve as a foundation, and top performers in this role refine them and create new content as needed.

Success in a semester means at least 90% of your cohort achieves their weekly app targets, demonstrates measurable improvement in life skills via Test2Pass, and rates their experience with you at 4 out of 5 or higher. Falling short on any of these three metrics means the role has not been fulfilled. Once you demonstrate your ability to uphold these standards, advancement opportunities open to Lead Guide—mentoring new Guides while continuing to coach a cohort—and eventually to Campus Lead, where you oversee an entire school and manage parent engagement.

If you are drawn to conventional teaching, prefer receiving a pre-built curriculum, or think kindness and rigor cannot coexist, this position is not the right fit. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp leadership, tutoring students through setbacks, or performing in front of middle schoolers, the final interview stage is a full on-campus day coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you, submit your application now.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions for K-8 cohorts on topics such as public speaking, focus, feedback exchange, and other foundational competencies, refining existing content and creating new sessions when you identify a need
• Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching conversations that drive every student toward their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot data, Alpha's motivational structures (including school currency and leaderboards), and personal rapport to overcome reluctance
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's competency-based evaluation) for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who do not succeed until they achieve mastery
• Adjusting your approach across a broad developmental spectrum, from kindergarteners who thrive on energy and physical activity to 8th graders who respond to candid dialogue and personal responsibility
• Analyzing weekly cohort metrics in Coachbot, pinpointing students falling behind, and recalibrating your coaching tactics for the upcoming week based on performance indicators
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering content at a whiteboard; academic material is housed in the apps, not delivered by you
• Creating an entire program from scratch; you begin with an established framework and personalize it with your energy and narrative style
• Passively monitoring students at workstations; motivation in this role is direct, individualized, and persistent
• Waiting for approval to support a struggling student; if additional coaching time is warranted, you decide and implement immediately
• Grading assignments, running test-prep sessions, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent communication, and the other tasks are not part of this model
  
  

Youth Coach Key Responsibilities

Guarantee that every student in your K-8 cohort meets their weekly learning targets, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year with a positive view of you.

Basic Requirements

• Able to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Beverly Hills, 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
• A minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (including classroom teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
• A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging objective: the objective itself, your actions, and the result
• Comfort with AI delivering instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after-school programming where you held direct accountability for motivating children toward defined outcomes
• Demonstrated history of personal excellence (academic, athletic, or professional), indicating that setting a high bar for others is an ingrained habit, not a performance
• Narrative ability and stage command sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
• Proven success in converting disengaged or resistant students into motivated 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-WestPalm-YouthCoach