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

• On-site positions at Alpha school campuses in Denver, CO | Atlanta, GA | Oklahoma City, OK | Nashville, TN | Fort Worth, TX | Houston, TX (Central Houston, South Houston, or The Woodlands) | Park City, UT (relocation assistance available)
• $100,000 annual salary with weekly pay. Full health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
  
  

When a student reaches 99% of their goal, the most valuable thing you can offer is the refusal to accept anything less than completion. If that expectation feels too rigid, this position won't be the right fit. If it resonates because you understand that maintaining high standards demonstrates your belief in a student's capability, continue reading.

Alpha operates differently from conventional schools. Through adaptive software, students complete a full academic day's worth of content in roughly two hours. There are no lectures or textbooks. Your responsibility centers on what technology cannot replicate: developing life skills in K-8 students—public speaking, concentration, feedback exchange. You'll spend half your time facilitating structured, hands-on workshops using prepared playbooks and narrative techniques. The remaining time involves working with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their adaptive learning progress via Coachbot analytics, and challenging them to reach 100% of weekly objectives. Mastery is verified through Test2Pass assessments rather than participation-based grading.

During your first year, you'll manage your own student cohort while becoming fluent in Alpha's methodology: life skills workshops, motivation coaching, mastery assessment protocols. Once you demonstrate consistent ability to guide every student to 100% goal completion while maintaining satisfaction ratings above 90%, advancement to Lead Guide becomes available—a role where you mentor fellow Guides while remaining actively engaged with students. Top performers don't merely impact individual students; they influence campus-wide culture and operations.

If your background includes years of coaching, counseling, or mentoring young people, and you've been hoping to eliminate traditional instruction in favor of focusing purely on their development, this opportunity aligns with that vision.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating hour-long life skills workshops for K-8 students covering public speaking, concentration, teamwork, and feedback processes (project-based and interactive)
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions to review student progress in adaptive learning platforms (via Coachbot analytics), establish goals, and drive them toward 100% weekly completion
• Overseeing and assessing Test2Pass evaluations to verify genuine mastery of each life skill rather than mere attendance
• Adjusting your coaching approach across diverse age groups, from kindergarteners requiring high-energy, movement-based engagement to 8th graders needing direct conversation and accountability
• Cultivating authentic connections with each student to establish the trust necessary for effective coaching through challenges like resistance, distraction, and uncertainty
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Providing lectures or conventional academic teaching (core academic content is delivered through adaptive applications, not instructor-led sessions)
• Creating lesson plans or developing curriculum independently (Alpha supplies life skills playbooks; your role is to execute them with enthusiasm and narrative skill)
• Handling parent communications or administrative school functions (Campus Leads manage these areas; your focus remains on students)
• Evaluating homework assignments or preparing students for standardized testing (these elements are not part of Alpha's model)
• Operating independently without support (you work within a campus team structure including Lead Guides, Campus Leads, and colleagues who provide feedback and mutual accountability)
  
  

Youth Mentor Key Responsibilities

Drive every student in your cohort to develop a love for school, achieve mastery of critical life skills, and reach 100% of their academic objectives through adaptive learning technology.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• 3 years working directly with K-8 students in capacities such as teaching, coaching, counseling, or youth program management
• Demonstrated experience motivating or coaching K-8 students toward academic, behavioral, or extracurricular objectives, including at least one concrete example you can detail (the objective, your specific actions, and measurable results)
• Regular use of generative AI platforms (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
• Availability to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Denver, CO; Atlanta, GA; Oklahoma City, OK; Nashville, TN; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX (Central Houston, South Houston, or The Woodlands); or Park City, UT (relocation assistance provided)
• Authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, camp direction, or after-school programming where you held direct responsibility for motivating children to achieve defined objectives
• History of significant personal accomplishment (academic distinctions, competitive sports, or leadership positions demanding consistent high performance)
• Innate storytelling capability: you can maintain the attention of a group of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to elevate your voice
• Success re-engaging disengaged or resistant students and converting them into active, committed learners
  
  

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-Denver-YouthMentor