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Description
- On-site at Alpha campuses across Denver, CO | Atlanta, GA | Nashville, TN | Fort Worth, TX | Houston, TX | Park City, UT
- $100,000 annual salary, distributed weekly. Full health, dental, and vision coverage begins on day one
- Considering a move? Relocation assistance is available
The most meaningful way to support a student who achieves 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that philosophy causes discomfort, this position is not the right fit. If it energizes you—because you understand that maintaining high standards demonstrates your belief in a student's capability—continue reading.
Alpha operates differently from conventional schools. Students complete a full day's worth of academics in approximately two hours using adaptive software. No traditional lectures. No textbooks. Your role centers on what technology cannot replicate: guiding young people through essential life competencies such as public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback exchange. You will facilitate interactive workshops, inspire students to exceed their learning targets, and cultivate relationships that transform a reserved 4th grader into someone who presents with confidence before an audience of adults.
This position grows over time. During your first year, you will manage a small student cohort and become fluent in Alpha's methodology: life skill workshops, motivation coaching, mastery-based evaluation. As you demonstrate the ability to guide every student toward 100% goal attainment while maintaining satisfaction ratings above 90%, advancement to Lead Guide becomes possible—a role where you mentor a team while remaining engaged directly with students. Top performers in this role do more than transform individual lives; they influence how an entire campus functions.
Traditional schools do not offer this opportunity. If you have been coaching, counseling, or mentoring young people and wish you could eliminate instructional teaching to focus purely on their development, this is the career move you've been waiting for.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating one-hour life skill workshops for K-12 students covering subjects such as public speaking, concentration, time management, and feedback dynamics (interactive and project-driven, never lecture-based)
- Conducting daily motivation sessions where you engage individual students, assess their progress within adaptive learning platforms (leveraging Coachbot analytics), and encourage them to achieve 100% of their weekly targets
- Organizing and executing mastery-based assessments (Test2Pass) to verify students have genuinely acquired each skill, not merely attended sessions
- Cultivating authentic relationships with every student so they develop sufficient trust to accept guidance through resistance, distraction, and uncertainty
- Monitoring student advancement against satisfaction metrics and goal completion data, modifying your methods when outcomes do not meet expectations
What you will NOT be doing
- Presenting lectures to a classroom or providing conventional academic instruction (students acquire core subjects via self-directed adaptive applications, not through your teaching)
- Creating lesson plans from the ground up (Alpha supplies a life skills curriculum and structured playbooks; your responsibility is to animate them with enthusiasm and narrative)
- Handling parent communications or school administrative duties (Campus Leads manage those functions; you remain concentrated on your students)
- Evaluating homework or coordinating standardized test preparation (neither exists in this environment)
- Operating independently (you are integrated into a campus team alongside 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 critical life skills, and reaches 100% of their academic objectives through adaptive learning technology.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree in any discipline
- 3+ years of direct experience working with K-8 students (in teaching, coaching, counseling, or youth program leadership capacities)
- Readiness to work on-site at an Alpha campus located in Denver, CO; Atlanta, GA; Nashville, TN; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City, UT (relocation assistance available)
- Capability to participate in a paid training program at Alpha's Austin, TX campus
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Background in youth development: athletic coaching, camp leadership, or youth programming where you held direct accountability for motivating children to achieve defined objectives
- History of significant personal accomplishment (academic distinctions, competitive sports, or leadership positions demanding sustained excellence)
- Innate storytelling capability: you can maintain the attention of a room filled with 12-year-olds for an hour without elevating your voice
- Experience inspiring disengaged or reluctant students and converting them into enthusiastic participants
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