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

• On-site at Alpha campuses in Denver, CO | Atlanta, GA | Nashville, TN | Fort Worth, TX | Houston, TX | Park City, UT
• $100,000 annual salary, paid weekly. Full health, dental, and vision coverage from day one
• Relocation support available for qualified candidates
  
  

The kindest thing you can do for a student who reaches 99% of their target is to refuse to settle. If that expectation unsettles you, this position is not the right fit. If it energizes you—because you understand that maintaining high standards demonstrates your confidence in a student's capability—continue reading.

Alpha operates differently from conventional schools. Students complete a full day's worth of academics in roughly two hours using adaptive software. No traditional lectures. No physical textbooks. Your responsibility centers on what technology cannot replicate: guiding young people through essential life competencies such as public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback exchange. You'll facilitate interactive workshops, inspire students to exceed their learning targets, and develop relationships that transform a reserved fourth grader into someone who presents with confidence before adult audiences.

This position offers a clear progression path. During your first year, you'll manage a small student cohort and become fluent in Alpha's methodology: life competency workshops, motivational coaching sessions, mastery-based evaluation. When you consistently help every student achieve 100% of their objectives while maintaining satisfaction ratings above 90%, you become eligible for Lead Guide, where you'll mentor a team while remaining directly engaged with students. The most effective people in this role don't merely impact 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 want to eliminate instructional teaching to focus purely on their development, this role delivers that opportunity.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life competency workshops for K-12 students covering subjects like public speaking, concentration, time management, and constructive feedback practices (interactive and project-oriented, never lecture-based)
• Conducting daily motivational sessions where you engage individual students, assess their performance in adaptive learning platforms (leveraging Coachbot analytics), and drive them toward 100% weekly goal attainment
• Creating and executing mastery-based evaluations (Test2Pass) to verify students have genuinely acquired each competency, not simply attended
• Cultivating authentic connections with each student so they're receptive to your guidance through challenges including resistance, distraction, and uncertainty
• Monitoring student performance against satisfaction metrics and goal achievement data, modifying your methods when outcomes don't meet expectations
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Standing before a classroom delivering lectures or providing conventional academic instruction (students master core subjects through self-directed adaptive applications, not through your teaching)
• Creating lesson plans from the ground up (Alpha supplies a life skills curriculum and implementation guides; your role is to animate them with enthusiasm and narrative)
• Handling parent communications or school administration duties (Campus Leads manage those functions; you remain concentrated on your students)
• Evaluating homework assignments or coordinating standardized test preparation (neither exists in this environment)
• Operating independently (you're embedded within a campus team including 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 love for school, achieves mastery of critical life competencies, and reaches 100% of their academic objectives through adaptive learning technology.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (in teaching, coaching, counseling, or youth program leadership capacities)
• Commitment to working on-site at an Alpha campus in Denver, CO; Atlanta, GA; Nashville, TN; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City, UT (relocation assistance available)
• Availability to participate in a paid training program at Alpha's Austin, TX campus
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth development: athletic coaching, camp leadership, or youth programming where you held direct accountability for motivating young people toward specific objectives
• Demonstrated history of personal excellence (academic distinctions, competitive athletics, or leadership positions demanding sustained high performance)
• Innate storytelling capability: you can maintain the attention of a room filled with 12-year-olds for an hour without elevating your voice
• Success motivating uninterested 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-Denver-YouthProgramDi.008