Youth Development Specialist

$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 covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, modifying the playbook and creating new sessions when you identify a need
• Conducting daily one-on-one and small-group motivation sessions that drive every student to 100% completion of their weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your relationship with each student to overcome resistance
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill, and supporting students who do not pass until they achieve mastery
• 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
• Serving as the adult who maintains high standards and the adult students trust; warmth creates the foundation to challenge, and challenging demonstrates your confidence in their potential

• Delivering lectures at a whiteboard; academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; you execute a proven playbook with energy and narrative skill
• Passively monitoring students at computers; motivation in this role is active, personal, and persistent
• Reducing a weekly goal to enable a student to reach it; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the target
• Grading homework, facilitating standardized test preparation, or handling parent communication; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this model

Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort completes their weekly learning goals, achieves mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year reporting they loved you.

• 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 support available
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• Minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (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 goal itself, your actions, and the result
• Comfort with AI managing instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Daily use of generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
• Legal authorization to work in the US 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 students toward defined goals
• History of personal high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to rigorous standards is a consistent practice, 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
• Demonstrated success converting disengaged or resistant students into active, engaged participants