What are the responsibilities and job description for the Youth Development Director, Alpha - $200,000/year USD position at Crossover?
- On-site at an Alpha campus located in New York City, NY; Miami, FL; or San Francisco, CA — relocation assistance available
- $200,000/year
- Full-time
Alpha operates on a two-hour academic model. Morning sessions use adaptive applications for content delivery, freeing your schedule for the interventions that genuinely transform children's trajectories: building motivation, developing life skills, providing coaching, and establishing accountability. You directly oversee a K-3 student cohort while simultaneously coaching the Guides—Alpha's designation for the adults who mentor and inspire students—who manage their day-to-day advancement. Your leadership remains hands-on daily rather than distant and office-based.
Your typical day cycles through three core activities. You analyze performance metrics and Coachbot data to identify students and Guides falling behind targets. You conduct coaching sessions that conclude with concrete action items rather than generalized encouragement. And you lead workshops for groups of five- to nine-year-olds covering topics like public speaking, concentration, or constructive feedback exchange.
When you identify effective methods, you document them systematically. The frameworks you create establish standards that all other Guides implement, expanding your influence from a single cohort to an entire grade level. Demonstrating your ability to replicate this excellence creates your pathway to expanded leadership responsibilities.
If accommodating lower expectations seems compassionate to you, this position will not fit. If maintaining high standards represents genuine respect, submit your application.
What You Will Be Doing
- Using performance metrics, classroom observations, and direct feedback to coach both Guides and students, then maintaining accountability to quantifiable objectives for both groups
- Leading hour-long interactive workshops for K-3 students addressing life skills including public speaking, concentration, teamwork, persistence, accountability, and constructive feedback practices
- Conducting individual and small-group motivation sessions that bridge each student's personal goals and interests to tangible academic achievement
- Developing and iterating on playbooks that codify your most effective practices into replicable systems executable by other Guides with consistency
- Providing training to Guides on these playbooks and demonstrating excellence in facilitation to maintain standards during team expansion
- Providing direct academic instruction or traditional front-of-classroom teaching; adaptive technology handles content while you focus on human development
- Reducing standards when students encounter challenges
- Managing from a distance as instructional coaches and school principals typically do; your engagement with your cohort remains direct and daily
- Managing campus-wide budget, operations, and parent communications; a Campus Lead handles those functions so you maintain focus on student and Guide performance
- Advocating for traditional pedagogical approaches or adhering to standard K-12 curriculum structures
Fulfill Alpha's three commitments to every K-3 student: they develop a love for school, achieve learning at twice the standard rate, and cultivate outstanding life skills and self-sufficiency.
Basic Requirements
- Available to work on-site at an Alpha campus in New York City, NY; Miami, FL; or San Francisco, CA; relocation assistance is available
- Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, Organizational Leadership, Child Development, or a related discipline
- Minimum of 5 years of experience working with elementary-aged children (approximately ages 5 to 9)
- Demonstrated experience leading a team of 5 or more individuals, with authority to make hiring and termination decisions based on performance results
- Proven experience building, initiating, or substantially scaling a program, team, school, or initiative from inception, rather than inheriting an established operation
- Comfortable operating in an educational environment that rejects conventional teaching methodologies
- Legal authorization to work in the United States
- Master's degree in a relevant discipline
- Demonstrated history leveraging metrics, dashboards, or analytics to identify issues and produce measurable improvements
- Experience coaching or managing other adults to achieve quantifiable results, beyond solely executing tasks independently
- Professional history in youth development, camp leadership, competitive coaching, tutoring, or enrichment programs where motivational techniques were foundational
- Confidence and proficiency facilitating sessions or speaking publicly to groups of young children
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.
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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 $100 USD/hour, which equates to $200,000 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-5814-US-NewYork-YouthDevelopme
Salary : $200,000