Description
- On-site at an Alpha campus in Austin, TX or Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ — relocation assistance available
- $150,000/year
- Full-time
Traditional elementary schools reduce expectations when children fall behind. You do the opposite. You hold the conviction that a six-year-old can achieve far beyond what conventional classrooms demand, and you have used evidence to validate this belief repeatedly.
Alpha operates on a two-hour learning framework. Academic content is delivered through adaptive applications in the morning, freeing your schedule for the activities that genuinely transform children's lives: motivation, life skills development, coaching, and accountability. You directly oversee a cohort of K-3 learners while coaching the Guides (Alpha's designation for the adults who mentor and inspire students) who manage their daily advancement. You remain actively engaged each day, not directing from a removed office.
Your typical day alternates among three core activities. You analyze performance metrics and Coachbot data to identify which students and Guides require intervention. You conduct coaching sessions that equip individuals with concrete next actions rather than general encouragement. And you command the focus of a room filled with five- to nine-year-olds during workshops addressing public speaking, concentration, or peer feedback.
When you identify effective approaches, you document them. The frameworks you create establish the benchmark that all other Guides adopt, expanding your influence from a single cohort to the entire grade level. Demonstrating your capacity to scale this level of excellence determines your advancement into greater leadership roles here.
If reducing standards seems compassionate to you, this role will not suit you. If elevating them represents respect, submit your application.
What you will be doing
- Coaching Guides and students through performance metrics, classroom observations, and explicit feedback, then maintaining accountability to quantifiable objectives for both groups
- Leading one-hour live workshops for K-3 students focused on life skills including public speaking, concentration, collaboration, resilience, accountability, and peer feedback
- Conducting individual and small-group motivation sessions that align each child's aspirations and interests with tangible academic advancement
- Developing and refining playbooks that convert your most effective practices into replicable systems other Guides can implement reliably
- Training Guides on these playbooks and demonstrating excellence in facilitation to maintain standards as the team expands
What you will NOT be doing
- Providing academic instruction or lecturing from the classroom front; adaptive applications handle content delivery while you coach individuals
- Reducing expectations when students encounter difficulty
- Managing from a distance in the manner of instructional coaches and principals; you remain integrated with your cohort every day
- Overseeing the entire campus's budget, operations, and parent communications; a Campus Lead handles those responsibilities so you concentrate on student and Guide results
- Advocating for traditional teaching approaches or adhering to a standard K-12 curriculum
Key responsibilities
Fulfill Alpha's three commitments to every K-3 student: they love school, learn twice as fast, and develop exceptional life skills and independence.
Candidate requirements
- Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Austin, TX or Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; relocation assistance is available
- Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, Organizational Leadership, Child Development, or a related field
- At least 5 years working with elementary-aged children (approximately ages 5 to 9)
- Experience leading a team of 5 or more people, including authority to hire and remove individuals based on performance outcomes
- Experience building, launching, or substantially expanding a program, team, school, or initiative from inception, not inheriting an established one
- Comfortable working in a school that rejects traditional teaching methods
- Legally authorized to work in the United States
Nice to have
- Master's degree in a related field
- Demonstrated history using metrics, dashboards, or analytics to identify problems and produce measurable improvement
- Experience coaching or managing other adults toward quantifiable outcomes, not simply executing the work yourself
- Background in youth development, camp leadership, competitive coaching, tutoring, or enrichment programs where motivation played a central role
- Confidence and proficiency facilitating or speaking publicly before rooms full of young children
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