Youth Mentor

$100,000 USD/year ^{Pay is set based on global value, not the local market. Most roles = hourly rate x 40 hrs x 50 weeks}  ($50 USD/hour)

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts on subjects including public speaking, focus, and feedback, modifying the existing framework and creating new sessions when you identify unmet needs
• Conducting daily 1:1 and small-group motivation sessions that drive every student to 100% completion of weekly app objectives, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your individual relationship with each student to overcome resistance
• Administering Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who do not pass until they achieve mastery
• Tailoring 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 high standards while also being someone students trust and want to engage with; warmth creates the foundation for pushing students, and pushing demonstrates your belief in their potential

• Delivering whiteboard lectures; academic content is embedded in the applications, not delivered by you
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; you activate an existing playbook through energy and narrative
• Passively monitoring students while they work on computers; motivation in this context is active, individualized, and persistent
• Reducing weekly targets to make them easier for students to reach; when a student falls behind, the solution involves supporting the student, not adjusting the goal
• Grading assignments, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent communications; Campus Leads manage parent interactions, and the other tasks do not exist in this model

Guarantee that every student in your K-8 cohort completes their weekly learning objectives, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they valued your coaching.

• Able to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX (Central, South, or The Woodlands); Park City, UT—relocation assistance available
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (including 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 objective, your actions, and the result
• Comfort with AI managing instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Regular use of generative AI tools (such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto campus)

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward defined objectives
• Demonstrated personal record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional) that makes holding others to rigorous standards 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
• Proven ability to convert disengaged or resistant students into active, participating learners