Description
- On-site at an Alpha campus in Austin, TX or Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ — relocation assistance available
- $150,000/year
- Full-time
Most elementary schools reduce expectations when a child falls behind. You do the opposite. You know a six-year-old can achieve far more than conventional classrooms demand, and you have used evidence to demonstrate this repeatedly.
Alpha operates on a two-hour learning model. Morning academic instruction happens through adaptive apps, freeing your time for what genuinely transforms a child: motivation, life skills, coaching, and accountability. You directly manage a cohort of K-3 students while also coaching the Guides (Alpha's name for the adults who mentor and inspire children) who drive their day-to-day growth. You remain hands-on daily, not directing from a separate office.
Your typical day alternates among three activities. You analyze performance data and Coachbot analytics to identify which students and Guides need support. You conduct coaching conversations that leave people with concrete next actions rather than generic encouragement. And you command the focus of a room filled with five- to nine-year-olds during workshops on topics like public speaking, concentration, or how to give and receive feedback.
When you identify effective strategies, you document them. The playbooks you create set the benchmark that all other Guides follow, expanding your influence from a single cohort to the entire level. Demonstrating your ability to scale this excellence is your pathway to greater leadership responsibility here.
If reducing standards feels compassionate to you, this role is not right for you. If elevating them feels like respect, we want your application.
What you will be doing
- Coaching Guides and students through performance data analysis, classroom observation, and direct feedback, then ensuring both meet measurable objectives
- Leading one-hour live workshops for K-3 students covering life skills including public speaking, focus, collaboration, resilience, accountability, and giving and receiving feedback
- Conducting individual and small-group sessions that tie each child's goals and interests to tangible academic improvement
- Creating and refining playbooks that transform your proven methods 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 front of the classroom; adaptive apps handle content delivery while you coach people
- Reducing expectations when a student encounters difficulty
- Managing from a distance like instructional coaches and principals typically do; you remain embedded with your cohort every day
- Managing the full campus budget, operations, and parent communication; a Campus Lead handles those responsibilities so you can concentrate on student and Guide results
- Advocating for traditional teaching approaches or adhering to a conventional 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 in person at an Alpha campus in Austin, TX or Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; relocation support is provided
- Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, Organizational Leadership, Child Development, or a related field
- At least 5 years working with elementary-aged children (roughly ages 5 to 9)
- Experience leading a team of 5 or more people, including authority to hire and to remove people based on performance outcomes
- Experience building, launching, or significantly growing a program, team, school, or initiative from the ground up, not inheriting an existing 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 ability using metrics, dashboards, or analytics to diagnose issues and produce measurable improvement
- Experience coaching or managing other adults toward measurable outcomes, not simply executing the work yourself
- Background in youth development, camp leadership, competitive coaching, tutoring, or enrichment programs where motivation was a core focus
- Confidence and capability facilitating or speaking publicly in front of groups of young children
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