Early Childhood Specialist, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

$100,000 annual salary paid weekly as W2; health, dental, and vision coverage starting day oneOn-site position at an Alpha campus located in Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT — relocation assistance availableYour role is not to teach. Your role is to motivate.The most caring response to a six-year-old who reaches 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that principle unsettles you, this isn't your fit. If it energizes you because maintaining the standard is how you demonstrate belief in a kindergartener's potential, read on.At Alpha, students in grades K-2 complete academic learning through AI-powered applications in two hours per day. No traditional instruction. No paper worksheets. You spend half your day facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions covering topics like public speaking, focus, and feedback exchange. These sessions provide a foundation, not a rigid script — top performers in this position customize them for their group and create new content when gaps emerge. During the remaining half, you meet with students individually or in small clusters, analyze Coachbot data, and guide each child toward 100% completion of their weekly application targets. For five- and six-year-olds, energy and playfulness are not supplementary; they are the vehicles through which you sustain attention and enable learning. Warmth establishes your authority to challenge. Challenge communicates your confidence in their capacity.A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass for all life-skills sessions, and 90% or more report loving you. Falling short on any of these three means the role's core expectations were not met. In your first year you internalize the system; once you demonstrate the ability to uphold standards, you become eligible for Lead Guide, where you mentor newer staff while continuing direct work with children.If traditional teaching appeals to you, you prefer pre-built curriculum delivery, or you see warmth and rigor as contradictory, this role won't work. If you've thrived as an early-elementary educator who loved circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports coach, a children's theater performer, or anyone capable of captivating a room of kindergarteners through voice, play, and energy, the final step before an offer is a shadow day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you most, submit your application today.What You Will Be DoingFacilitating one-hour life-skills sessions for groups of 10-15 students in grades K-2, covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational competenciesConducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions to keep students on track for weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the rapport you've established with each childDelivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill, then coaching students who do not pass until mastery is achievedEngaging kindergarteners with songs, stories, movement, and humor, while maintaining real, measurable expectations for first and second gradersServing as the warm adult children are excited to see at arrival AND the adult who will not allow them to settle for lessWhat You Won’t Be DoingDelivering whiteboard lectures; academic content is embedded in the apps, not delivered by youCreating curriculum independently; Alpha supplies the framework and you execute itPassively monitoring children at computers; motivation in this role is active, personalized, and continuousReducing a weekly target so a child can meet it; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the goalGrading assignments, conducting standardized test preparation, or managing parent outreach; Campus Leads handle parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks are not part of this modelEarly Childhood Specialist Key ResponsibilitiesGuarantee that every student in your K-2 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they loved you.Basic RequirementsWilling to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation support provided)Bachelor's degree in any disciplineMinimum of 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4 to 8 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)A concrete example you can describe of motivating a young child toward a challenging goal: the goal itself, your actions, and the resultAble to participate in a paid training program at our Austin, TX campusComfortable allowing AI to deliver instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coachingLegally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorshipNice-to-have RequirementsBackground in youth sports coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating young children toward defined goalsHistory of personal high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), so that holding others to a rigorous standard is natural, not performativeInnate performer's energy with young children — the capacity to command a room of kindergarteners through voice, playfulness, and physicalityDemonstrated success transforming hesitant or reluctant young children into confident, engaged contributorsAbout 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 $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-5149-US-Napervil-EarlyChildhood