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

• On-site position in Brownsville, TX (relocation support provided)
• $100,000 annual compensation, paid weekly, with full health benefits
  
  

Most educators exhaust themselves battling bureaucracy. They draft lesson plans that gather dust. They endure faculty meetings that produce no meaningful change. You recognized years ago that this isn't the real work. The real work is the student sitting in front of you.

At Alpha, academic instruction is handled by software. Adaptive applications guide each student through content at an individualized pace. There are no lectures, no homework assignments, no grading papers. This structure liberates you to focus on what genuinely transforms lives: facilitating life skills workshops where high schoolers develop public speaking abilities, concentration, and feedback literacy, followed by one-on-one coaching sessions to maintain their motivation and ensure they reach their learning targets. You'll spend half your time facilitating group sessions. The other half involves sitting down with individual students, analyzing their Coachbot data to pinpoint exactly where they're encountering obstacles and why.

Students complete a mastery-based assessment following each workshop you lead. Over 90% should provide positive evaluations of your work. 100% should demonstrate consistent progress in their learning applications. These aren't aspirational targets; they represent the minimum standard. Maintaining high expectations is how you communicate your belief in their potential. Through this work, you'll develop expertise in creating workshops that teenagers eagerly anticipate, mastering advanced educational software, and forming enduring relationships with students and their families. Our Brownsville location sits adjacent to SpaceX. The cutting edge of education meets the cutting edge of space technology, and you'll be the one fulfilling Alpha's fundamental commitment: students who are passionate about learning, progress at twice the conventional rate, and acquire capabilities that truly prepare them for life. If you've been searching for an educational environment that operates according to your vision of how schools should function, 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 techniques, and feedback exchange, followed by assessing mastery through structured Test2Pass evaluations
• Conducting daily motivational coaching sessions that leverage Coachbot analytics to engage individual students, diagnose learning app roadblocks, and help them overcome resistance
• Collaborating with students to create personalized motivational approaches, including reward systems and incentives that encourage autonomous advancement in their academic applications
• Preparing by reviewing curriculum materials and session plans, then adjusting your delivery approach based on real-time assessment of group dynamics
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Instructing in academic content areas. Mathematics, literacy, and all other subjects are delivered through software.
• Taking on school administration or team leadership responsibilities. No budget oversight, no recruitment duties, no operational planning meetings; your attention remains entirely on your student cohort.
• Enforcing discipline through conventional authoritarian methods. No detention assignments, no suspension proceedings, no "do it because I'm in charge." You rely on reasoning and positive reinforcement to cultivate a respectful, energized learning environment.
  
  

Youth Mentor Key Responsibilities

Develop a cohort of high school students who are passionate about their education, achieve 2x accelerated learning through adaptive software platforms, and exhibit mastery of practical life skills.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any field
• 3 years of direct experience working with high school students (ages 13-18)
• Able 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-traditional classroom settings
• Demonstrated history of guiding groups to achieve quantifiable objectives (completion metrics, performance standards, behavioral outcomes)
• Familiarity with adaptive learning systems or educational technology platforms
• Strong narrative skills that captivate teenage audiences, communicated 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-Orlando-YouthMentor