What are the responsibilities and job description for the Youth Development Specialist, Alpha - $100,000/year USD position at Crossover?
- On-site at Alpha school campuses in Denver, CO | Atlanta, GA | Nashville, TN | Fort Worth, TX | Houston, TX | Park City, UT
- $100,000 annual salary, distributed weekly. Full health, dental, and vision coverage from day one
- Considering relocation? Support provided
Alpha operates differently from conventional schools. Students complete a full day's worth of academics in roughly two hours using adaptive software. No classroom lectures. No textbooks. Your responsibility is what technology cannot accomplish: guiding young people through essential life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback exchange. You'll facilitate interactive workshops, inspire students to exceed their learning targets, and develop the kinds of connections where a reserved 4th grader ultimately presents with confidence before a room of adults.
This position grows with you. During your first year, you'll manage a small student cohort and become fluent in Alpha's methodology: life skill workshops, motivational coaching sessions, mastery-focused assessments. Once you demonstrate the ability to hold every student accountable to 100% of their objectives while maintaining satisfaction ratings above 90%, advancement to Lead Guide becomes possible—a role where you'll mentor a team while remaining directly engaged with students. The highest performers in this role don't simply transform individual trajectories; they influence how an entire campus functions.
You won't encounter this opportunity at a conventional school. If you've been coaching, counseling, or mentoring young people and wishing you could eliminate traditional instruction to focus on their actual development, this is your opportunity.
What You Will Be Doing
- Facilitating one-hour life skill workshops for K-12 students covering subjects like public speaking, concentration, time management, and constructive feedback exchange (interactive and project-driven, never lecture-based)
- Conducting daily motivational coaching sessions where you engage with individual students, examine their performance in adaptive learning applications (leveraging Coachbot analytics), and challenge them to achieve 100% of their weekly targets
- Organizing and administering mastery-focused assessments (Test2Pass) to verify students have genuinely mastered each skill, not simply attended
- Cultivating authentic connections with each student so they trust you sufficiently to accept guidance through obstacles, distractions, and uncertainty
- Monitoring student performance against satisfaction metrics and goal achievement data, modifying your methods when outcomes don't meet expectations
- Standing before a classroom delivering lectures or providing traditional academic instruction (students learn core content through independent adaptive applications, not from you)
- Creating lesson plans from the ground up (Alpha supplies a life skills curriculum and structured playbooks; your responsibility is to execute them with enthusiasm and narrative skill)
- Handling parent communications or administrative duties (Campus Leads oversee those functions; you remain concentrated on your students)
- Evaluating homework or coordinating standardized test preparation (neither exists in this environment)
- Operating independently (you're integrated into a campus team with Lead Guides, Campus Leads, and colleagues who exchange feedback and maintain mutual accountability)
Guarantee that every student in your cohort develops a love for school, achieves mastery of critical life skills, and reaches 100% of their academic objectives through adaptive learning software.
Basic Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in any field
- 3 years of experience working directly with K-8 students (teaching, coaching, counseling, or youth program leadership)
- Willingness to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Denver, CO; Atlanta, GA; Nashville, TN; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City, UT (relocation support provided)
- Ability to attend a paid training program at Alpha's Austin, TX campus
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship
- Background in youth development: athletic coaching, camp leadership, or youth program roles where you held direct accountability for motivating young people to achieve specific objectives
- History of significant personal accomplishment (academic distinctions, competitive athletics, or leadership positions that demanded sustained excellence)
- Innate storytelling capability: you can command the attention of a room filled with 12-year-olds for an hour without elevating your voice
- Experience inspiring unengaged or reluctant students and converting them into enthusiastic contributors
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 $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-4415-US-FortWort-YouthDevelopme.046
Salary : $100,000