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Camp Counselor $100,000 USD/year
Description
- $100,000 annual W2 compensation, distributed weekly; full health, dental, and vision coverage begins on day one
- On-campus position at an Alpha K-8 school in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston (Central, South, or The Woodlands), TX; Park City, UT (Salt Lake City metro) – relocation assistance available
This is not a teaching position. This is a motivation role.
The most impactful response to a student who reached 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation unsettles you, this role is not a fit. If it energizes you—because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a student's capacity—continue reading.
At Alpha, academic learning occurs through AI-driven applications. No classroom lectures. No traditional textbooks. Half your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions on topics including public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback exchange. The remaining half involves sitting with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress via Coachbot data, and driving each one toward 100% completion of weekly app objectives. You will not follow a rigid script—workshop frameworks provide a foundation, but top performers customize them and create new content when needs arise.
A successful quarter means every student in your cohort completes their weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass for all life-skills sessions, and 90%+ report that they love you. Falling short on any of these three dimensions means the role expectations are not being met. During your first year you will internalize the operational model; as you demonstrate your ability to uphold standards, advancement opportunities open to Lead Guide, where you mentor new hires while continuing direct student work.
If you prefer conventional teaching, expect pre-built curricula to be handed to you, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible, this position will disappoint. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp counseling, tutoring where you refused to let a student give up, or performance work that could captivate a room of eight-year-olds, the final step before receiving an offer is a full day on-site coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you most, submit your application today.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions for K-8 groups covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other enduring competencies, customizing the framework and creating new workshops when you identify unmet needs
- Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching sessions that drive every student to 100% weekly app completion, leveraging Coachbot data, Alpha's motivational infrastructure (school currency, leaderboards), and your personal connection with each child to overcome resistance
- Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-validated assessment) for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who fall short until they achieve mastery
- Adjusting your approach across a broad developmental spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and kinesthetic engagement to 8th graders needing candid conversations and personal accountability
- Serving as the adult who maintains rigorous expectations and the adult students trust and seek out; your warmth creates the permission to challenge, and your challenges communicate your confidence in their potential
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering lectures at a whiteboard; academic content is embedded in the applications, not delivered by you
- Building curriculum from the ground up; you activate an established framework with energy and narrative
- Passively monitoring students at workstations; motivation in this context is proactive, individualized, and persistent
- Reducing a weekly target to make it easier for a student to succeed; when a child falls behind, the solution is supporting the child, not lowering the standard
- Evaluating homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage family-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this model
Key responsibilities
Drive every student in your K-8 cohort to complete their weekly learning targets, achieve mastery in each life skill, and finish the year reporting that they loved you.
Candidate requirements
- Available 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 provided
- Bachelor's degree in any discipline
- Minimum of 3 years in direct work with K-8 students (teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
- A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging objective: the objective, your actions, and the result
- Comfort allowing AI to manage instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development
- Daily engagement with generative AI platforms (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
- Authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto campus)
Nice to have
- Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp program leadership, theater, or after-school initiatives where you held direct accountability for motivating children toward defined outcomes
- Record of personal excellence (academic, athletic, or professional) that makes holding others to rigorous standards a consistent practice, not an adopted persona
- Narrative skill and stage command sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
- Demonstrated success converting disengaged or resistant students into committed participants
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