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

• $100,000/year W2 salary, paid weekly; health, dental, and vision benefits starting day one
• On-site at an Alpha K-8 campus in Denver, CO; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX (Central, South, or The Woodlands); Park City, UT (Salt Lake City area); or Toronto, Canada (relocation support available)
  
  

You are not a traditional teacher. Your role is to motivate.

The most supportive action you can take for a student who reached 99% of their goal is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation makes you uneasy, this role is not for you. If it energizes you—because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a student's capability—read on.

At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-powered applications. No classroom lectures. No traditional textbooks. Half of your day is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering topics like public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback. The other half, you work with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their performance via Coachbot analytics, and driving each one toward 100% completion of their weekly app objectives. You will not follow a rigid script—workshops provide a framework, but top performers customize them and create new sessions when needs arise.

A successful quarter means every student in your cohort completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for all life-skills workshops, and 90% report they love you. Falling short on any of these three measures means the job is not being done. In your first year, you internalize the methodology; as you demonstrate your ability to maintain standards, advancement to Lead Guide becomes possible, where you mentor new hires while continuing direct work with students.

If you prefer traditional pedagogy, expect pre-packaged curriculum, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible, this position is not suitable. If you have experience as a sports coach, camp counselor, tutor who refused to accept a student's surrender, or performer capable of commanding the attention of eight-year-olds, the final step before receiving an offer is spending a full day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you most, submit your application today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, concentration, feedback, and other transferable skills, customizing the playbook and creating new sessions when you identify unmet needs
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions that drive every student to 100% completion of their weekly app objectives, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your personal relationship with each student to overcome resistance
• Administering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill, and providing coaching to students who do not pass until they achieve mastery
• Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and physical activity to 8th graders needing direct conversation and accountability
• Serving as the adult who maintains high expectations and the adult students trust; warmth grants you permission to challenge, and challenging demonstrates your confidence in their potential
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering whiteboard lectures; academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; you animate an established playbook with enthusiasm and narrative skill
• Passively monitoring students at computers; motivation in this role is active, personalized, and persistent
• Reducing a weekly target to help a student achieve it; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the goal
• Grading assignments, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent communications; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this model
  
  

Youth Mentor Key Responsibilities

Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort completes their weekly learning objectives, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting they loved you.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Denver, CO; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX (Central, South, or The Woodlands); Park City, UT; or Toronto, Canada (relocation support available)
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• At least 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (classroom instruction, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
• A concrete example you can describe of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: the objective, your actions, and the result
• Willingness to allow AI to manage instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Daily use of generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
• Legal authorization to work in the US without requiring visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto campus)
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating students toward defined objectives
• Personal background of significant achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to rigorous standards is a consistent practice, not an adopted stance
• Storytelling ability and stage presence sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
• Demonstrated success converting disengaged or resistant students into active, motivated participants
  
  

About Alpha

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-FortColl-YouthMentor.043