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

• In-person roles at Alpha locations in Denver, CO | Atlanta, GA | Nashville, TN | Fort Worth, TX | Houston, TX | Park City, UT
• $100,000 annual salary, paid weekly. Health, dental, and vision benefits from day one
• Considering a move? Relocation assistance provided
  
  

The most powerful thing you can do for a student who reaches 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation unsettles you, this position won't be the right fit. If it energizes you because you understand that maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a student's potential, continue reading.

Alpha operates differently from conventional schools. Students complete a full academic day in roughly two hours using adaptive software. No classroom lectures. No traditional textbooks. Your responsibility centers on what technology cannot replicate: guiding young people through essential life skills including public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback exchange. You'll facilitate interactive workshops, inspire students to achieve their learning targets, and develop relationships strong enough that a reserved 4th grader gains the confidence to present before a room of adults.

This position grows with you. During the first year, you'll guide a dedicated student cohort and internalize Alpha's methodology: life skills workshops, motivational coaching, mastery-based evaluation. Once you demonstrate the ability to hold each student accountable to 100% goal completion while maintaining satisfaction ratings above 90%, advancement to Lead Guide becomes available—a role where you'll mentor other guides while remaining directly engaged with students. The highest performers don't simply transform individual trajectories; they influence how an entire campus functions.

Traditional schools don't offer this opportunity. If you've been working with young people through coaching, counseling, or mentoring and have wanted to move beyond instructional teaching toward genuine developmental work, this is your opportunity.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life skills workshops for K-12 students covering subjects like public speaking, concentration, time management, and constructive feedback (interactive and project-oriented, never lecture-based)
• Conducting daily motivational sessions where you engage with individual students, examine their progress through adaptive learning platforms (utilizing Coachbot analytics), and challenge them to achieve 100% of their weekly targets
• Organizing and conducting mastery-based evaluations (Test2Pass) to verify students have genuinely acquired each skill, not simply attended sessions
• Cultivating authentic connections with each student so they develop sufficient trust to accept guidance through obstacles, distractions, and uncertainty
• Monitoring student advancement relative to satisfaction metrics and goal attainment benchmarks, modifying your methods when outcomes don't meet expectations
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Presenting lectures to a classroom or providing conventional academic instruction (students acquire core subjects through independent adaptive applications, not from you)
• Creating lesson plans from the ground up (Alpha supplies a life skills curriculum and structured frameworks; your role is to animate them with enthusiasm and narrative)
• Handling parent communications or school operations (Campus Leads manage those areas; you remain concentrated on your students)
• Evaluating homework or overseeing standardized test preparation (these don't exist in this environment)
• Operating independently (you're integrated into a campus team alongside Lead Guides, Campus Leads, and colleagues who exchange feedback and maintain mutual accountability)
  
  

Youth Program Director Key Responsibilities

Guarantee that every student in your cohort develops a passion for learning, acquires critical life skills, and achieves 100% of their academic objectives through adaptive learning technology.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any field
• 3 years of experience working directly with K-8 students (teaching, coaching, counseling, or youth program leadership)
• Willingness to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Denver, CO; Atlanta, GA; Nashville, TN; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City, UT (relocation support provided)
• Ability to attend a paid training program at Alpha's Austin, TX campus
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth development: athletic coaching, camp leadership, or youth program work where you held direct responsibility for motivating children to achieve defined objectives
• History of significant personal achievement (academic distinctions, competitive athletics, or leadership positions that demanded sustained excellence)
• Innate storytelling capability: you can command a room of 12-year-olds' attention for an hour without elevating your voice
• Experience energizing disengaged or reluctant students and converting them into 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-Atlanta-YouthProgramDi.006