Early Childhood 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
Description
Most children forget the lessons they sat through. None forget the adult who truly believed in their potential. That defines this position.
At Alpha, academic instruction takes just two hours each day through adaptive learning platforms. This structure allows Guides to dedicate their time to the work that transforms lives: cultivating confidence, resilience, effective communication, and the drive to embrace difficult challenges. Your days won't be spent lecturing from the front of a room. Instead, you'll coach students through obstacles, acknowledge their progress, and demonstrate what rigorous standards look like when combined with authentic support.
You'll oversee one K-3 cohort band—either Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd grade. Approximately half your time is dedicated to facilitating dynamic, one-hour workshops focused on essential life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and receiving feedback. The remaining time is spent providing individual and small-group coaching, leveraging learning analytics to ensure each child advances toward challenging weekly objectives. Every moment counts. Students should emerge from your workshops with greater capability and leave coaching conversations believing they can accomplish more than they previously imagined.
This position is not designed for someone seeking to deliver standard curriculum or oversee traditional classroom management. It's intended for someone who enjoys inspiring young children, values measurable progress, and trusts that the right coach can alter a child's path. If you've motivated kids as an educator, athletic coach, camp director, youth mentor, or performer, you'll discover a distinctly different learning environment here.
This is a full-time, on-site position at one of Alpha's campus locations. We conduct nationwide recruitment, so job postings may appear in nearby cities where we do not currently operate a campus.
Current vacancies at this compensation level are located in Scottsdale, AZ; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, Georgetown, Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, and Houston, TX; and Park City (Salt Lake City area), UT.
If you're drawn to a different Alpha campus location, submit your application regardless and indicate your preferred site—we'll evaluate you for the relevant opportunity.
What you will be doing
- Facilitate dynamic life-skills workshops that enable K-3 students to develop communication, concentration, feedback reception, and other enduring competencies through hands-on engagement rather than passive instruction.
- Provide one-on-one and small-group coaching, utilizing Coachbot analytics, established motivation frameworks, and meaningful relationships to ensure every child progresses toward demanding weekly learning targets.
- Evaluate life-skill proficiency using Alpha's Test2Pass methodology, guiding students until they exhibit genuine comprehension—not merely attendance.
- Tailor your coaching approach to match the developmental stage of your cohort, incorporating songs, physical activity, and narrative for younger groups or emphasizing greater autonomy and responsibility for older students.
- Establish relationships that create an environment where students feel secure enough to push past their perceived limitations.
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering academic content from the front of the classroom. Students complete academics via adaptive software.
- Developing curriculum materials from the ground up. You'll refine and customize existing proven frameworks rather than creating lessons from scratch.
- Supervising students as they work quietly at computers. Your function is hands-on coaching, encouragement, and interpersonal engagement.
- Reducing standards when students encounter difficulty. Progress is achieved by supporting students to meet the objective, not by adjusting the objective downward.
- Overseeing homework assignments, scoring assessments, or managing standard parent correspondence.
Key responsibilities
Develop a cohort of K-3 students who are excited to attend school, reliably meet ambitious learning targets, and acquire the life skills that equip them to flourish well beyond elementary school.
Candidate requirements
- Able to work on-site at one of Alpha's campus locations. Current vacancies at this compensation level are located in Scottsdale, AZ; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, Georgetown, Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, and Houston, TX; and Park City (Salt Lake City area), UT.
- Bachelor's degree in any discipline.
- Minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4-9 in teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, or comparable settings.
- Demonstrated history of inspiring young children to reach difficult goals, with concrete examples of your influence.
- Ease with leveraging AI-powered learning technology while concentrating your own efforts on coaching, motivation, and life-skill cultivation.
- Capacity to combine genuine warmth with consistently high expectations.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship.
Nice to have
- Background in youth athletics, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori education, progressive schooling, or highly interactive after-school programs.
- Direct experience pursuing and achieving ambitious personal goals in academics, sports, or professional endeavors.
- Exceptional narrative or performance abilities that effortlessly engage young children's attention.
- Proven success helping hesitant or reserved children develop into confident, active contributors.
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