Leadership Coach $150,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- On-site at an Alpha campus: Austin, TX · Dallas, TX · Fort Worth, TX · Oklahoma City, OK
- $150,000 annual W2 salary, paid weekly. Full health benefits from day one.
- Relocation assistance provided
The most powerful support you can give a student who scored 99% is to tell them they didn't succeed.
Not because perfection is the goal. Because believing in someone's capacity to improve is among the highest forms of respect.
Traditional schools shield students from failure. Alpha equips them for success. We believe that confidence doesn't emerge from reduced standards. It develops when students accomplish what they previously considered impossible. This principle guides everything we do.
Our approach is intentionally distinct. Students achieve academic mastery independently through AI-powered platforms, allowing adults to concentrate on work that transforms lives: coaching character, cultivating resilience, nurturing leadership, and establishing habits that produce remarkable results. We don't require adults to transmit content. We need leaders capable of drawing out excellence in others.
This position anchors that mission. You'll develop the Guides who engage directly with students, helping them evolve into outstanding coaches rather than traditional instructors. You'll facilitate life skills workshops that students recall years afterward. You'll leverage performance data to pinpoint where students or Guides are underperforming and coach them toward excellence. You'll also maintain your own student cohort, ensuring the standards you uphold are the standards you demonstrate.
The multiplier effect is substantial. Each Guide you develop influences dozens of students. Every enhancement you contribute to campus culture amplifies across hundreds of young lives. Success isn't defined by meeting attendance or report generation. It's determined by whether students become more confident, disciplined, resilient, and capable due to the culture you helped establish.
This position isn't for someone seeking to maintain the existing education system. It's for someone convinced that young people deserve more than compliance, attendance requirements, and mediocre expectations. If you're motivated by coaching individuals through challenging obstacles, leveraging data to inform better decisions, and maintaining rigorous standards because you truly believe in others' potential, you'll excel here.
Apply if you're prepared to establish a culture where excellence is the norm, coaching transforms lives, and students realize they're capable of significantly more than they believed possible.
What you will be doing
- Develop and coach Guides to execute Alpha's coaching model with consistency, enthusiasm, and rigorous standards.
- Facilitate dynamic life skills workshops addressing communication, concentration, feedback, leadership, and resilience for K-8 students using established playbooks.
- Leverage student and Guide performance data to recognize coaching opportunities, eliminate obstacles, and produce measurable progress each week.
- Facilitate motivation sessions that enable every student to embrace ambitious goals and consistently reach them.
- Sustain your own student cohort while exemplifying the coaching quality and accountability you require from all Guides.
What you will NOT be doing
- Instructing academic content. Students achieve core academic learning independently via AI-powered learning platforms.
- Developing lesson plans or designing curriculum. Your responsibility is outstanding coaching, not producing instructional content.
- Managing classrooms via lectures, worksheets, or behavior management systems. Students direct their own learning, and you coach the habits enabling their success.
- Reducing expectations to sidestep challenging conversations. Elevated standards and authentic belief in each student's capability are inseparable.
- Defining success by activity rather than outcomes. Results hold greater weight than effort by itself.
Key responsibilities
Establish a coaching culture where outstanding Guides reliably develop students who are passionate about school, achieve academic mastery at an accelerated rate, and cultivate the resilience, leadership, and life skills necessary for success well beyond the classroom.
Candidate requirements
- Available to work on campus in Austin, TX; Dallas, TX; Fort Worth, TX; or Oklahoma City, OK (relocation assistance available).
- Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, Organizational Leadership, or related discipline.
5+ years of experience leading adults in education, learning and development, youth leadership, coaching, or comparable performance-focused environment. - Demonstrated success managing a team of five or more individuals, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and challenging accountability discussions.
- Experience engaging directly with children ages 5-14 in educational, developmental, athletic, or youth leadership contexts.
- Track record of building, launching, scaling, or substantially improving a program, team, school, business, or initiative.
- Proven capability to utilize performance metrics and data to diagnose challenges, prioritize initiatives, and achieve measurable outcomes.
- Legally authorized to work in the United States.
Nice to have
- Master's degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or related discipline.
- Experience coaching athletics, leading outdoor or experiential education, directing camps, youth programs, or other cohort-based initiatives.
- Experience building or leading innovative education, EdTech, tutoring, nonprofit, or learning programs beyond traditional classroom instruction.
- Personal background of exceptional achievement in academics, athletics, entrepreneurship, or leadership.
- Firm belief that education should cultivate capable, resilient, independent young people rather than merely transmit academic content.
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