Youth Program Coordinator, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

• $100,000 annual W2 salary with weekly pay; comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
• On-site position 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)
  
  

You are not here to teach. You are here to motivate.

The most meaningful support you can offer a student who achieved 99% of their target is to insist it is not yet complete. If this standard feels uncomfortable, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high expectations is how you demonstrate belief in a student's potential, continue reading.

At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-powered applications. No traditional lectures. No conventional textbooks. Half your workday is devoted to facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback exchange. The remaining half involves working with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress via Coachbot analytics, and ensuring each one reaches 100% of their weekly app targets. 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 objectives, passes the Test2Pass for all life-skills workshops, and 90% report that they value your coaching. Falling short on any of these three measures means the role expectations are not met. During your first year you will master the operational framework; as you demonstrate your ability to maintain standards, advancement opportunities open to Lead Guide, where you mentor new staff while continuing direct student work.

If you prefer traditional classroom teaching, expect ready-made curriculum, or see warmth and rigorous standards as incompatible, this position is not suitable. If you have experience as an athletic coach, camp counselor, tutor who refused to accept a student's resignation, or performer capable of engaging a room of eight-year-olds, the final interview stage is 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 framework and creating new sessions when you identify missing elements
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions that ensure every student reaches 100% of their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your individual relationship with each student to overcome resistance
• Overseeing the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill, and providing coaching to students until they achieve passing standards
• 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 standards and the adult students trust; warmth creates the foundation for challenge, and challenge demonstrates your confidence in their capacity
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering whiteboard lectures; academic content is housed in the applications, not delivered by you
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; you animate a proven framework through energy and narrative
• Passively monitoring students at computers; motivation in this context is active, individualized, and persistent
• Reducing a weekly target to enable a student to meet it; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the goal
• Evaluating homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this model
  
  

Youth Program Coordinator Key Responsibilities

Guarantee that every student in your K-8 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and concludes the year reporting that they valued your coaching.

Basic Requirements

• Able to work on-site 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 available)
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• Minimum 3 years of direct work with K-8 students (classroom instruction, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
• A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: the objective, your actions, and the result
• Openness to allowing AI to manage instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Regular 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 sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward defined objectives
• Personal record of exceptional achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to rigorous standards is an established pattern, not an adopted stance
• Narrative skills and stage presence sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without escalating volume
• Demonstrated success converting disengaged or resistant students into engaged contributors
  
  

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-Atlanta-YouthProgramCo.040