Career Coach $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
Description
- On-site at Alpha campuses in Denver, CO | Atlanta, GA | Oklahoma City, OK | Nashville, TN | Fort Worth, TX | Houston, TX (Central Houston, South Houston, or The Woodlands) | Park City, UT (relocation assistance available)
- $100,000 annual salary, distributed weekly. Health, dental, and vision coverage begins day one
If a student reaches 99% of their target, the most meaningful thing you can do is hold the line and refuse to call it complete. If that standard feels uncomfortable, this position won't be the right fit. If it energizes you because you understand that maintaining high expectations is how you demonstrate belief in a student's ability to meet them, continue reading.
Alpha operates differently from conventional schools. Students complete a full day's worth of academics in approximately two hours using adaptive software. There are no lectures. No textbooks. Your role centers on what technology cannot replicate: coaching K-8 students in life skills such as public speaking, focus, and giving and receiving feedback. Half of your day is spent facilitating hands-on workshops using structured playbooks and storytelling techniques. The other half involves meeting with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress in adaptive learning applications via Coachbot analytics, and ensuring they achieve 100% of their weekly objectives. Mastery is demonstrated through Test2Pass assessments, not participation metrics.
During your first year, you will be assigned a cohort of students and become fluent in Alpha's methodology: life skill workshops, motivation sessions, mastery-based assessments. Once you demonstrate the ability to hold every student accountable to 100% of their goals while maintaining satisfaction scores above 90%, advancement opportunities open to Lead Guide, where you mentor other Guides while remaining directly engaged with students. Top performers in this role don't just transform individual trajectories; they influence how an entire campus functions.
If you have years of experience coaching, counseling, or mentoring young people and have wished you could eliminate instructional teaching to concentrate on their actual development, this is your opportunity.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating one-hour life skill workshops for K-8 students covering public speaking, focus, collaboration, and giving and receiving feedback (project-based and hands-on)
- Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions where you analyze each student's progress in adaptive learning applications (via Coachbot analytics), establish goals, and drive them to achieve 100% of their weekly targets
- Overseeing and assessing Test2Pass evaluations to verify students have genuinely mastered each life skill, not simply attended
- Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and physical activity to 8th graders needing direct conversation and accountability
- Cultivating authentic relationships with each student so they trust you sufficiently to receive coaching through resistance, distraction, and moments of self-doubt
What you will NOT be doing
- Presenting lectures or providing traditional academic instruction (students acquire core subjects through adaptive applications, not from you)
- Creating lesson plans or curriculum from the ground up (Alpha supplies life skills playbooks; your responsibility is to execute them with energy and storytelling)
- Handling parent communications or school administration (Campus Leads manage those areas; you remain focused on your students)
- Assigning grades to homework or coordinating standardized test preparation (neither exists in this environment)
- Operating independently (you are embedded in a campus team with Lead Guides, Campus Leads, and colleagues who exchange feedback and maintain mutual accountability)
Key responsibilities
Guarantee that every student in your cohort develops a love for school, achieves mastery of essential life skills, and completes 100% of their academic objectives through adaptive learning software.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree in any field
- 3+ years of direct experience working with K-8 students (teaching, coaching, counseling, or youth program leadership)
- Demonstrated experience motivating or coaching K-8 students toward academic, behavioral, or extracurricular objectives, with at least one specific example you can articulate (the objective, actions you took, and the outcome)
- Daily use of generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
- Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Denver, CO; Atlanta, GA; Oklahoma City, OK; Nashville, TN; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX (Central Houston, South Houston, or The Woodlands); or Park City, UT (relocation assistance available)
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Background in youth athletics coaching, camp leadership, or after-school program coordination where you held direct responsibility for motivating children to achieve specific objectives
- History of high personal achievement (academic honors, competitive athletics, or leadership positions that demanded sustained excellence)
- Innate storytelling skill: you can maintain the attention of a room full of 12-year-olds for an hour without escalating your voice
- Experience motivating disengaged or resistant students and converting them into active contributors
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