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

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

Your role is not to teach. Your role is to motivate.

The most meaningful thing you can do for a student who reaches 99% of their goal is to refuse to call it complete. If that expectation feels uncomfortable, this may not be the right fit. 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 traditional lectures. No textbooks. Half of your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering topics like public speaking, focus, and how to give and receive meaningful feedback. The other half involves working with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress via Coachbot analytics, and driving each one toward 100% completion of their weekly app goals. You will not follow a rigid script — workshops provide a foundation, but those who excel in this role customize them and create new ones when necessary.

A successful quarter means every student in your cohort completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90% report that they love you. Falling short on any of these three measures means the role was not fulfilled. In your first year you will master the established playbook; as you demonstrate your ability to maintain standards, opportunities open to advance to Lead Guide, where you mentor new hires while continuing to work directly with students.

If you prefer traditional teaching methods, need a pre-set curriculum delivered to you, or think warmth and high expectations cannot coexist, this role is not for you. If you have been an athletic coach, a camp counselor, a tutor who would not let a student give up, or a performer capable of engaging a room 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, focus, feedback, and other essential skills, customizing the playbook and creating new sessions when you identify a need
• Conducting daily 1:1 and small-group motivation sessions that drive every student to 100% of their weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your individual relationship with each student to overcome resistance
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill, and working with students who do not pass until they achieve mastery
• Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners who require high energy and physical activity to 8th graders who need direct conversation and accountability
• Serving as the adult who maintains high standards and the adult students want to confide in; warmth creates the foundation for pushing, and pushing demonstrates your belief in their potential
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering whiteboard lectures; academic content is embedded in the apps, not delivered by you
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; you animate a proven playbook with energy and narrative skill
• Passively monitoring kids on computers; motivation in this role is active, personal, and persistent
• Reducing a weekly target to help a student reach it; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the goal
• Grading homework, running standardized test preparation, or handling parent communication; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the rest does not apply here
  
  

Youth Mentor Key Responsibilities

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

Basic Requirements

• Able to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Denver, CO; Atlanta, GA; 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 assistance provided)
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• At least 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (classroom teaching, 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 goal itself, your actions, and the result
• Comfort with AI handling 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 visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto campus)
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth athletics coaching, debate, camp leadership, drama, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating kids toward defined goals
• Personal track record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to rigorous standards is a natural tendency, 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 in converting disengaged or resistant students into active, engaged 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-Harrisbu-YouthMentor.011