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

• On-site position at the Alpha School campus located in Brownsville, TX
• $100,000 annual W2 salary, distributed weekly. Health benefits begin on day one.
• Relocation assistance provided for a one-school-year campus commitment
  
  

You've dedicated years to coaching young people — not instructing them. You understand the distinction: coaching means connecting, challenging, and refusing to accept anything less than a student's full potential. Instruction is content delivery. You've never operated as a content delivery mechanism.

Alpha operates the most nontraditional school model you're likely to encounter. Students don't arrange themselves in rows for lectures. They progress through AI-driven learning applications at individualized speeds. The AI manages instructional material. Your responsibility is to facilitate life skills workshops that capture and hold the attention of K-8 students, conduct motivation sessions that drive them toward weekly learning targets, and maintain standards when a student attempts to disengage. Academic progress is self-sustaining. You manage the human dimension.

This position offers a meaningful advancement path, and that path leads to greater student impact. Educators who reliably achieve performance benchmarks (100% cohort achievement of weekly app targets, satisfaction ratings above 90%) advance into Lead Guide positions where they train other educators in these methods. Students remain the central focus.

The campus sits in Brownsville, adjacent to SpaceX's Starbase facility. If your motivation for leaving your current position is the mission — transforming what a child believes about their own capability — rather than a credential for your resume, submit your application.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life skills workshops for K-8 students addressing topics including public speaking, focus, and constructive feedback exchange
• Administering Test2Pass mastery assessments following each workshop to verify students have authentically acquired the skill, not merely attended
• Conducting daily motivation sessions that leverage student profiles, personal interests, and Coachbot analytics to ensure 100% of your cohort achieves weekly app progression targets
• Utilizing storytelling, incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and individual relationships to overcome student reluctance
• Monitoring cohort satisfaction ratings with a 90% benchmark on student survey responses
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering lectures at a whiteboard. Academic advancement occurs through self-directed AI-powered applications, not through your direct instruction.
• Supervising idle screen time. The environment involves students using computers; the work requires active engagement.
• Compromising standards in response to student resistance. Test2Pass requirements remain consistent, even during difficult weeks for individual students.
• Creating curriculum materials independently. Workshop frameworks and lesson plans are supplied; your responsibility is to execute them with the presence and narrative skill that ensures genuine student learning.
• Handling parent communications, admissions processes, or campus operational oversight. Those functions belong to other roles.
  
  

Youth Counselor Key Responsibilities

Guide a cohort of K-8 students to achieve 100% of weekly academic targets while facilitating life skills workshops that earn satisfaction scores of 90% or higher.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any subject
• Minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 (elementary and middle school) students
• Strong storytelling and facilitation skills — capable of maintaining the engagement of a room full of children for one hour
• Willing to work on-site at the Alpha campus in Brownsville, TX
• Legal authorization to work in the US without visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience as an athletic coach, camp counselor, or youth program facilitator
• Demonstrated history of high achievement in competitive settings (academic, athletic, or professional)
• Familiarity with self-directed or app-based learning environments
  
  

About Alpha

Join the team building school around student growth

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills.

Roles with real student impact: Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members.

Education work that pays like it matters: Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience.

A culture built for builders: Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. It’s for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it.

Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career.

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-5234-US-Brownsvi-YouthCounselor.038