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

• $100,000/year W2 salary with weekly pay; full health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
• On-site position at an Alpha K-8 campus located 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 drive motivation.

The most meaningful 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 role is not for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a student's capacity, read on.

At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-driven applications. No classroom lectures. No traditional textbooks. Half of your workday is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback. The other half is spent in 1:1 or small-group sessions, analyzing student progress via Coachbot analytics, and driving each student toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets. You will not follow a rigid script — workshops provide a foundation, but high performers in this role customize them and create new sessions to address unmet needs.

A successful quarter means every student in your cohort completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for all life-skills workshops, and 90% report they love you. Falling short on any of these three is falling short of the role. In your first year, you will master the operational playbook; once you prove your ability to uphold standards, you become eligible for Lead Guide, where you mentor new hires while continuing direct work with students.

If you are drawn to traditional pedagogy, prefer ready-made curricula, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible, this position is not a fit. If you have been an athletic coach, a camp counselor, a tutor who would not let a student give up, or a performer capable of commanding a room of eight-year-olds, the final stage before an offer is a full day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you most, apply now.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts on public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, customizing the playbook and creating new sessions when you identify a need
• Conducting daily 1:1 and small-group motivation sessions that drive every student to 100% of their weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your rapport with each student to overcome resistance
• Administering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill, and coaching students who do not pass until they achieve mastery
• Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and physical activity to 8th graders needing candid dialogue and accountability
• Serving as the adult who upholds standards and the adult students trust; warmth grants you permission to challenge, and challenging demonstrates your belief in their potential
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering lectures at a whiteboard; academic content is embedded in the apps, not in your instruction
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; you activate a proven playbook through energy and narrative
• Passively monitoring students at computers; motivation here is active, individualized, and persistent
• Reducing a weekly target to help a student meet it; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the goal
• Grading assignments, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent communications; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the rest do not exist in this model
  
  

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; 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 provided)
• 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

• Experience 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 holding others to rigorous standards is 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
• Proven ability to convert disengaged or resistant students into active, participating 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-Tulsa-YouthProgramDi