Student Success Coach, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

$120,000 annual W2 compensation paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision benefits starting on day oneOn-site position at an Alpha K-8 school in Beverly Hills, CA; La Jolla (San Diego), CA; Palo Alto, CA; Piedmont, CA; Santa Monica, CA; South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; Raleigh, NC; Charlotte, NC; Portland, OR; or Seattle, WA (relocation assistance available)This role is not about teaching. It is about motivation.The most meaningful support you can offer a student who reaches 99% of their target is to insist they finish. If that principle creates discomfort, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high expectations is how you demonstrate belief in a student's ability, continue reading.At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-driven applications. There are no lectures or textbooks. Approximately 60% of your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions on topics like public speaking, focus, and constructive feedback. Around 30% of your time involves meeting with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress via Coachbot data, and driving each toward their weekly app targets. The remaining 10% is dedicated to reviewing data and translating it into actionable coaching strategies for the following week. You will not follow a rigid script; sessions provide a framework, and the strongest performers in this role customize them and create new content when needs arise.A successful semester means at least 90% of students in your cohort achieve their weekly app targets, demonstrate quantifiable improvement in life skills on Test2Pass, and give you a rating of 4 out of 5 or higher. Falling short on any of these three metrics means the role has not been fulfilled. Once you demonstrate your ability to uphold these standards, advancement opportunities open to Lead Guide — mentoring newer Guides while continuing to lead a cohort — and eventually to Campus Lead, where you oversee an entire school and manage parent engagement.If you are drawn to conventional teaching, prefer structured curricula, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible, this is not the right fit. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp counseling, tutoring where you refused to let students give up, or performance experience that allowed you to captivate a group of 12-year-olds, the final hiring stage is a full day on campus working directly with Alpha students. If that prospect excites you most, submit your application now.What You Will Be DoingFacilitating one-hour life-skills sessions for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, giving and receiving feedback, and other enduring competencies, customizing the framework and creating new sessions when you identify unmet needsConducting daily individual and small-group motivation meetings that drive every student toward their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's motivational systems (school currency, leaderboards), and your personal connection with each student to overcome reluctanceAdministering Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who do not achieve passing scores until mastery is demonstratedAdjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and physical activity to 8th graders needing candid conversations and accountabilityServing as the adult who maintains high expectations and the adult students trust and seek out; warmth establishes the credibility to challenge, and challenging demonstrates your confidence in their potentialWhat You Won’t Be DoingDelivering instruction at a whiteboard; academic content is embedded in the applications, not delivered by youCreating curriculum from the ground up; you activate an established framework through energy and narrative skillMonitoring students passively at computers; motivation in this role is dynamic, individualized, and persistentReducing a weekly target to enable a student to meet it; when a student falls behind, the solution is increased effort from the student, not adjustment of the goalGrading assignments, running standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this modelStudent Success Coach Key ResponsibilitiesEnsure every student in your K-8 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and concludes the year expressing a positive connection with you.Basic RequirementsWilling to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Beverly Hills, CA; La Jolla (San Diego), CA; Palo Alto, CA; Piedmont, CA; Santa Monica, CA; South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; Raleigh, NC; Charlotte, NC; Portland, OR; or Seattle, WA (relocation support provided)Bachelor's degree in any subjectAt least 3 years working directly with K-8 students (classroom teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)A specific example you can describe of motivating a K-8 student to a hard goal: the goal, what you did, and the outcomeWillingness to let AI handle the instructional content while you focus on motivation and life-skills coachingLegal right to work in the US without visa sponsorshipNice-to-have RequirementsExperience in youth athletics coaching, debate, camp leadership, drama, or after-school programs where you were directly responsible for motivating kids toward specific goalsPersonal history of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to a hard bar is a pattern, not a postureStorytelling and stage presence strong enough to hold a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without raising your voiceTrack record of turning disengaged or resistant students into active participantsAbout AlphaWant 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 usThis 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 $60 USD/hour, which equates to $120,000 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-5607-US-Portland-StudentSuccess.005