What are the responsibilities and job description for the Youth Development Coach, Alpha - $120,000/year USD position at Crossover?
An AI can teach a six-year-old to read. It cannot make her want to. Closing that gap is your work.
At Alpha, students in grades K-3 complete academic learning through AI-powered applications in a two-hour daily window. As a Guide, you lead a single cohort band — either K-1 (Kindergarten through 1st grade) or 2-3 (2nd through 3rd grade) — and adjust your energy, tempo, and workshop design to fit that band. There are no lectures. No worksheets. You spend half your day facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops focused on public speaking, focus, and the practice of giving and receiving feedback. A playbook is provided, but the strongest performers in this role modify it for their cohort and create new activities when gaps appear. The remaining half of your day is spent sitting with students individually or in very small groups, analyzing Coachbot data, and coaching each child toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets. Warmth gives you permission to demand more. Demanding more signals your belief in their capacity.
A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90% or more report that they love you. Fall short on any of those three metrics and you have not fulfilled the role. In your first year, you internalize the playbook; once you demonstrate your ability to maintain the standard, you become eligible for Lead Guide, a position in which you mentor newer hires while continuing to run your own cohort.
If you prefer traditional teaching, expect a ready-made curriculum, or see warmth and rigor as incompatible, this role is not for you. 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 prior to an offer is a shadow day coaching actual Alpha students. Apply today.
What You Will Be Doing
Ensure every student in your K-3 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-FortLaud-YouthDevelopme
At Alpha, students in grades K-3 complete academic learning through AI-powered applications in a two-hour daily window. As a Guide, you lead a single cohort band — either K-1 (Kindergarten through 1st grade) or 2-3 (2nd through 3rd grade) — and adjust your energy, tempo, and workshop design to fit that band. There are no lectures. No worksheets. You spend half your day facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops focused on public speaking, focus, and the practice of giving and receiving feedback. A playbook is provided, but the strongest performers in this role modify it for their cohort and create new activities when gaps appear. The remaining half of your day is spent sitting with students individually or in very small groups, analyzing Coachbot data, and coaching each child toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets. Warmth gives you permission to demand more. Demanding more signals your belief in their capacity.
A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90% or more report that they love you. Fall short on any of those three metrics and you have not fulfilled the role. In your first year, you internalize the playbook; once you demonstrate your ability to maintain the standard, you become eligible for Lead Guide, a position in which you mentor newer hires while continuing to run your own cohort.
If you prefer traditional teaching, expect a ready-made curriculum, or see warmth and rigor as incompatible, this role is not for you. 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 prior to an offer is a shadow day coaching actual Alpha students. Apply today.
What You Will Be Doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-3 cohorts on public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, modifying the playbook for your cohort rather than delivering it verbatim.
- Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions that ensure every student remains on track for weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the rapport you have developed with each child.
- Delivering the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based assessment, for each life skill, and coaching students who do not initially pass until they achieve mastery.
- Engaging kindergarteners with songs, stories, movement, and play while simultaneously holding second and third graders to concrete, measurable expectations.
- Serving as the warm adult children are excited to see at drop-off AND the adult who will not allow them to settle.
- Delivering lectures at the whiteboard. Academic content is embedded in the apps, not in your instruction.
- Building curriculum from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook and you animate it.
- Passively supervising children at computers. Motivation here is active, individualized, 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 goal.
- Grading homework, administering standardized test prep, or handling parent communication. Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the rest does not exist in this model.
Ensure every student in your K-3 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 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 9 (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-FortLaud-YouthDevelopme
Salary : $120,000