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

• On-site in Brownsville, TX (relocation support provided)
• $100,000 annual salary paid weekly, plus health benefits
  
  

Most educators spend their careers battling bureaucracy. Drafting lesson plans no one ever looks at. Enduring faculty meetings that accomplish nothing. You gave up on that being the real work years ago. The real work is the student sitting in front of you.

At Alpha, academic instruction is delivered through software. Adaptive applications guide each learner through content at an individualized pace. No classroom lectures, no take-home assignments, no grading papers. This frees your time for the work that truly transforms lives: facilitating life skills workshops where high schoolers develop public speaking ability, concentration, and feedback literacy, then providing one-on-one coaching to sustain their motivation and achieve their learning targets. Half your day involves facilitating group sessions. The other half is spent face-to-face with individual students, leveraging Coachbot data to pinpoint exactly where they're struggling and uncover the underlying reasons.

Following each workshop, your students will complete a mastery-based evaluation. 90% or more should provide positive ratings of your work. 100% should be progressing through their applications. These aren't stretch goals; they're minimum expectations. Upholding rigorous standards demonstrates your confidence in their capacity to succeed. Throughout this process, you'll develop expertise in designing workshops that captivate teenagers, mastering advanced learning technology, and forging meaningful relationships with students and their families. Our Brownsville location is adjacent to SpaceX. The cutting edge of education intersects with the cutting edge of aerospace, and you'll be the person fulfilling Alpha's fundamental commitment: students who are passionate about school, accelerate their learning by a factor of two, and acquire capabilities that translate to real-world success. If you've been searching for a school that operates according to your vision of what education should be, you've found it.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life skills workshops for high school students covering topics such as public speaking, concentration, and feedback exchange, followed by evaluating mastery via structured Test2Pass assessments
• Conducting daily motivation sessions that use Coachbot analytics to engage individual students, diagnose obstacles in their learning applications, and help them overcome resistance
• Co-creating personalized motivational approaches with students, incorporating rewards and incentives that fuel independent advancement through their academic applications
• Preparing by reviewing curriculum and lesson materials prior to each session, then adjusting your approach based on student engagement and group dynamics
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Instructing academic content. Software manages mathematics, literacy, and all other subject areas.
• Overseeing school operations or supervising staff. No budget responsibilities, no recruitment duties, no administrative meetings; your sole priority is the students in your cohort.
• Enforcing discipline through conventional authority structures. No detention assignments, no suspension decisions, no "do it because I'm telling you to." You rely on reasoning and positive reinforcement to create a respectful, energized learning environment.
  
  

Youth Mentor Key Responsibilities

Develop a cohort of high school students who are enthusiastic about school, accelerate their learning by 2x through adaptive software, and achieve mastery in practical life skills.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any field
• 3 years of direct experience working with high school students (ages 13-18)
• Prepared to work on-site in Brownsville, TX (relocation support provided)
• Authorization to work legally in the US
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience as a sports coach, camp counselor, or youth program coordinator who has successfully motivated teenagers in non-classroom settings
• Demonstrated success guiding groups to achieve quantifiable objectives (completion metrics, performance standards, behavioral improvements)
• Familiarity with adaptive learning systems or educational technology platforms
• Narrative skills that capture and hold teenage audiences' attention, expressed with cultural sensitivity and authentic connection
  
  

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-5771-US-Austin-YouthMentor.001