What are the responsibilities and job description for the Youth Development Coach, Alpha - $120,000/year USD position at Crossover?
AI-powered applications can teach a six-year-old to read. They cannot make her care. Closing that gap is your responsibility.
At Alpha, students in grades K–2 complete academic instruction through AI-driven apps over two hours each day. No traditional lectures. No worksheets. Half of your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops focused on public speaking, attention, and the art of giving and receiving feedback. A structured playbook is provided, but top performers tailor it to their group and create new activities when gaps appear. The remaining half involves working with students individually or in small groups, analyzing Coachbot data, and coaching each child toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets. Establishing warmth gives you the credibility to challenge them. Challenging them demonstrates your belief in their capacity.
A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for each life-skills workshop, and 90% report that they love you. Falling short on any of these three metrics means the job was not done. In your first year, you'll master the playbook; once you demonstrate the ability to uphold standards, you become eligible for Lead Guide, where you mentor new hires while continuing to run your own cohort.
If you prefer conventional teaching, expect a ready-made curriculum, or view warmth and rigor as opposing forces, this role is not a fit. If you have worked as an early-elementary teacher who excelled during circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports coach, or a children's theater performer, the final step before an offer is a shadow day coaching live Alpha students. Apply today.
What You Will Be Doing
Ensure every student in your K-2 cohort completes their weekly learning goals, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they loved you.
Basic Requirements
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-5634-US-SanAnton-YouthDevelopme.019
At Alpha, students in grades K–2 complete academic instruction through AI-driven apps over two hours each day. No traditional lectures. No worksheets. Half of your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops focused on public speaking, attention, and the art of giving and receiving feedback. A structured playbook is provided, but top performers tailor it to their group and create new activities when gaps appear. The remaining half involves working with students individually or in small groups, analyzing Coachbot data, and coaching each child toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets. Establishing warmth gives you the credibility to challenge them. Challenging them demonstrates your belief in their capacity.
A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for each life-skills workshop, and 90% report that they love you. Falling short on any of these three metrics means the job was not done. In your first year, you'll master the playbook; once you demonstrate the ability to uphold standards, you become eligible for Lead Guide, where you mentor new hires while continuing to run your own cohort.
If you prefer conventional teaching, expect a ready-made curriculum, or view warmth and rigor as opposing forces, this role is not a fit. If you have worked as an early-elementary teacher who excelled during circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports coach, or a children's theater performer, the final step before an offer is a shadow day coaching live Alpha students. Apply today.
What You Will Be Doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-2 cohorts on public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational competencies, adapting the provided playbook to fit your group rather than delivering it verbatim.
- Conducting daily 1:1 and small-group motivation sessions to keep every student on track for weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the individual relationship you've developed with each child.
- Administering the Test2Pass—Alpha's mastery-based assessment—for each life skill, and coaching students who fall short until they achieve mastery.
- Meeting kindergarteners at their developmental stage with songs, stories, movement, and playfulness, while maintaining real, measurable expectations for first and second graders.
- Serving as the warm adult children are excited to see at drop-off AND the adult who will not allow them to settle for less.
- Delivering whiteboard lectures. Academic content is housed in the apps, not delivered by you.
- Building curriculum from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook; your role is to animate it.
- Passively monitoring children at computer stations. Motivation here is hands-on, personal, and continuous.
- Reducing a weekly target so a child can meet it. When a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the standard.
- Grading homework, preparing for standardized tests, or handling parent communications. Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist here.
Ensure every student in your K-2 cohort completes their weekly learning goals, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they loved you.
Basic Requirements
- Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, Miami, Miami Beach, or Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; or Boston, MA (relocation support provided).
- Bachelor's degree in any subject.
- At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4 to 7 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership).
- A specific example you can describe of motivating a young child to a hard goal: the goal, what you did, and the outcome.
- Willingness to let AI handle the instructional content while you focus on motivation and life-skills coaching.
- Willingness to hold high standards with students even when they push back.
- Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship.
- Experience in youth athletics coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you were directly responsible for motivating young kids toward specific goals.
- Personal history of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to a hard bar is a pattern, not a posture.
- Natural performer's presence with little kids: the ability to hold a room of kindergarteners through voice, silliness, and movement.
- Track record of turning shy or resistant little kids into confident, active participants.
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-5634-US-SanAnton-YouthDevelopme.019
Salary : $120,000