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

• $100,000/year W2 salary, paid weekly; health, dental, and vision benefits begin day one
• On-site at an Alpha K-8 campus in Denver, CO; 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 support available)
  
  

This is not a teaching role. It is a motivational one.

The most meaningful support you can give a student who reaches 99% of their goal is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation makes you uncomfortable, this role is not for you. If it energizes you—because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a student's capability—read on.

At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-powered applications. No traditional lectures. No textbooks. Half of your day is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering topics like public speaking, focus, and giving and receiving constructive feedback. The other half involves sitting with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress via Coachbot analytics, and driving each one toward 100% completion of their weekly app goals. You will not follow a rigid script—workshops serve as a foundation, but the strongest performers in this position adapt them and create new sessions when they identify needs.

A successful quarter means every student in your cohort completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90% report they love you. Falling short on any of these three metrics means the role is not being fulfilled. In your first year, you will master the operational playbook; as you demonstrate your ability to maintain standards, opportunities open to advance to Lead Guide, where you mentor newer hires while continuing to work directly with students.

If you prefer traditional teaching methods, want a pre-packaged curriculum, or see warmth and rigor as incompatible, this position is not the right fit. If you have been an athletic coach, a camp counselor, a tutor who refused to let a student give up, or a performer who could captivate a room of eight-year-olds, the final step before receiving an offer is a full day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you most, apply today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts on subjects including public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, adapting the existing playbook and creating new sessions when gaps are identified
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions that drive every student to 100% completion of their weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your personal relationship with each student to overcome resistance
• Administering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill, and providing coaching to students who do not pass until mastery is achieved
• Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and physical activity to 8th graders needing direct conversations and accountability
• Serving as the adult who maintains standards and whom students trust and want to engage with; warmth establishes the credibility to push, and pushing conveys your belief in their potential
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering lectures at a whiteboard; academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; you animate a proven playbook through energy and narrative
• Passively supervising students on computers; motivation in this role is active, personal, and sustained
• Reducing a weekly goal to enable a student to meet it; when a student falls behind, the solution is to support the student, not adjust the target
• Grading homework, running standardized test preparation, or managing parent communications; Campus Leads handle parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist here
  
  

Youth Program Director Key Responsibilities

Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort completes their weekly learning goals, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting they loved you.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Denver, CO; 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 support available)
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• At least 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (classroom teaching, 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 goal itself, your actions, and the result
• Willingness to allow AI to manage instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Daily 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 athletics coaching, debate, camp leadership, drama, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward defined goals
• Personal record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that maintaining rigorous standards for others is a consistent behavior, not an adopted stance
• Storytelling ability and stage presence sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
• Demonstrated success converting disengaged or resistant students into active, 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-Dallas/F-YouthProgramDi.009