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 sessions for K-8 groups covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other transferable competencies, customizing the framework and creating new modules when you identify needs
• Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching sessions that drive every student to 100% of their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot data, Alpha's motivation systems (school currency, leaderboards), and your rapport with each student to overcome resistance
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill, and working with students who don't achieve mastery until they do
• Adjusting your approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners who thrive on energy and activity to 8th graders who respond to candor and accountability
• Serving as the adult who maintains high expectations and the adult students trust; warmth creates the foundation for challenge, and challenge communicates your confidence in their potential

• Teaching content at a whiteboard; academic instruction is embedded in the apps, not delivered by you
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; you animate an established framework with energy and narrative
• Passively monitoring students on devices; motivation in this role is active, individualized, and persistent
• Reducing a weekly target to help a student reach it; when a student is behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the goal
• Marking assignments, running standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent communication, and the other tasks don't exist in this model

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

• 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 available
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (classroom instruction, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program management)
• A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: the objective, your actions, and the result
• Comfort with AI managing instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development
• Regular use of generative AI platforms (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
• Legal authorization to work in the US without visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto campus)

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after-school programming where you held direct responsibility for motivating students toward measurable goals
• Personal track record of significant achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), demonstrating that holding others to high standards is intrinsic, not performative
• Communication and presentation skills capable of engaging a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without relying on volume
• Proven ability to transform disengaged or reluctant students into engaged contributors