Youth Program Director $100,000 USD/year
Youth Program Director $100,000 USD/year
Description
- $100,000/year W2 salary with weekly pay; health, dental, and vision benefits starting day one
- On-site position at an Alpha K-8 campus in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; Denver, CO; 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 area) — relocation assistance available
This role is not about teaching. It is about motivation.
The most meaningful thing you can do for a student who reaches 99% of their goal is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that principle makes you uneasy, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high expectations is how you demonstrate belief in a student's ability, read on.
At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-powered applications. There are no lectures or textbooks. Half of your day is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops on topics like public speaking, focus, and the practice of giving and receiving constructive feedback. The other half involves working with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress via Coachbot analytics, and driving each one toward 100% completion of their weekly app goals. You will not be reading from a script — workshops serve as a foundation, but the strongest performers in this role customize them and create new content when needed.
A successful quarter means every student in your cohort completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for all life-skills workshops, and 90%+ report that they value your coaching. Falling short on any of these three measures means the role has not been fulfilled. In your first year, you will become fluent in the operating model; as you demonstrate your ability to uphold standards, the opportunity to advance to Lead Guide opens, where you mentor new hires while continuing to work directly with students.
If you are drawn to traditional classroom instruction, prefer to be given a pre-built curriculum, or see warmth and rigor as incompatible, this position will not suit you. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp counseling, tutoring students who wanted to quit, or performing in front of young audiences, the final interview stage is a full day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you most, submit your application today.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational competencies, customizing the playbook and creating new sessions when you identify a need
- Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions to drive every student toward 100% completion of their weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your rapport with each student to overcome resistance
- Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill and continuing to coach students who do not pass until mastery is achieved
- Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners who respond to high energy and physical activity to 8th graders who require directness and accountability
- Serving as the adult who maintains rigorous standards and the adult students trust and seek out; warmth creates the foundation for challenge, and challenge signals your confidence in their capability
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering content at a whiteboard; academic instruction is embedded in the apps, not in your delivery
- Building curriculum from the ground up; you animate a tested playbook with energy and narrative skill
- Passively monitoring students at computers; motivation in this role is active, individualized, and persistent
- Reducing a weekly goal to make it easier for a student to achieve; when a student falls behind, the solution is to support the student, not adjust the target
- Grading assignments, administering standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent communication, and the other tasks do not exist in this model
Key responsibilities
Ensure that every student in your K-8 cohort completes their weekly learning goals, achieves mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they valued your coaching.
Candidate requirements
- Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; Denver, CO; 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 of 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 describe of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: the goal itself, your actions, and the result
- Willingness to allow AI to manage instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
- Daily use of generative AI tools (such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
- Legal authorization to work in the US without visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto campus)
Nice to have
- Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, drama, or after-school programming where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward measurable outcomes
- History of personal high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional) such that holding others to rigorous standards is a natural pattern, not an adopted stance
- Storytelling ability and stage presence capable of engaging a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
- Proven success converting disengaged or reluctant students into active, motivated participants
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