Youth Coach, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

$120,000 annual W2 salary with weekly pay; health, dental, and vision benefits from day oneOn-site role at an Alpha K-8 campus in Beverly Hills, CA; La Jolla (San Diego), CA; Palo Alto, CA; Piedmont, CA; South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Raleigh, NC; Portland, OR; or Seattle, WA (relocation assistance available)This role is about motivation, not teaching.The most meaningful support you can give a student who reaches 99% of their goal is to refuse to accept it as finished. If that expectation feels uncomfortable, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a student's potential, continue reading.At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-powered applications. No traditional lectures. No textbooks. Approximately 60% of your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and effective feedback exchange. Around 30% involves sitting with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress via Coachbot analytics, and driving each toward their weekly app targets. The remaining 10% is dedicated to data analysis that informs your coaching strategy for the week ahead. You will not be following a rigid script; workshops provide a framework, and top performers in this role modify them and create new ones when they identify needs.A successful semester means at least 90% of students in your cohort achieve their weekly app goals, demonstrate measurable life-skill improvement on Test2Pass, and provide a rating of 4/5 or higher for their experience with you. Falling short on any of these three metrics means the role is not being fulfilled. As you demonstrate your ability to maintain these standards, advancement opportunities emerge: Lead Guide—where you mentor newer Guides while continuing to run a cohort—and eventually Campus Lead, where you oversee an entire school and manage parent relationships.If traditional teaching appeals to you, if you prefer ready-made curricula, or if you view warmth and rigor as incompatible, this position is not the right fit. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp counseling, tutoring where you refused to let students give up, or performance work that allowed you to captivate a room of 12-year-olds, the final step before receiving an offer is spending a full 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 workshops for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, feedback exchange, and other lasting competencies, modifying the existing playbook and creating new sessions when you identify gapsConducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions that drive every student toward their weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your personal connection with each student to overcome resistanceAdministering Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who do not pass until they achieve masteryAdjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners who require high energy and physical activity to 8th graders who need direct conversation and accountabilityAnalyzing weekly cohort performance data in Coachbot, pinpointing students who are falling behind, and modifying your coaching strategy for the coming week based on what the data revealsWhat You Won’t Be DoingDelivering traditional whiteboard lectures; academic content is delivered through the apps, not by youCreating an entire curriculum from scratch; you begin with an established playbook and customize it with your own style and narrative approachPassively monitoring students at computers; motivation in this role is active, personal, and persistentWorking through bureaucratic approval processes to secure resources for struggling students; if a student needs additional coaching time, you decide and take action immediatelyGrading assignments, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent communication; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this modelYouth Coach Key ResponsibilitiesEnsure every student in your K-8 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, masters each life skill, and finishes the year saying they loved you.Basic RequirementsWilling to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Beverly Hills, CA; La Jolla (San Diego), CA; Palo Alto, CA; Piedmont, CA; South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Raleigh, NC; Portland, OR; or Seattle, WA (relocation assistance available)Bachelor's degree in any fieldMinimum 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 describe of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: the objective, your actions, and the resultComfort with AI handling instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coachingLegal authorization to work in the US without visa sponsorshipNice-to-have RequirementsBackground in youth athletics coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating kids toward defined objectivesHistory of personal high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), demonstrating that maintaining high standards for others is a consistent practice, not an adopted stanceStorytelling ability and stage presence capable of engaging a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voiceProven ability to transform disengaged or resistant students into active, engaged 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-Chicago-YouthCoach