Youth Development Coach

$120,000 USD/year ^{Pay is set based on global value, not the local market. Most roles = hourly rate x 40 hrs x 50 weeks}  ($60 USD/hour)

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-3 cohorts on subjects including public speaking, focus, feedback, and other essential skills, adapting the provided playbook to fit your specific cohort rather than delivering it verbatim.
• Conducting daily one-on-one and small-group motivational sessions to ensure every student remains on track to meet weekly app-based learning goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (such as school currency and leaderboards), and the individual relationships you have cultivated with each child.
• Facilitating the Test2Pass—Alpha's mastery-based assessment—for each life skill, and providing coaching to students who do not pass until they achieve mastery.
• Engaging kindergarteners with age-appropriate methods such as songs, stories, physical movement, and playfulness, while simultaneously holding second and third graders accountable to concrete, measurable standards.
• Serving as both the warm, welcoming adult children are excited to see at drop-off AND the adult who consistently refuses to allow them to settle for less than their best.

• Delivering lectures from a whiteboard. Academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you.
• Creating curriculum from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook; your role is to animate it.
• Passively supervising children while they use computers. Motivation in this role is active, personalized, and continuous.
• Reducing a weekly goal to make it easier for a student to achieve. When a student falls behind, the solution is to support the student, not to lower the bar.
• Grading homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent communications. Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this model.

Guarantee that every student in your K-3 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they loved you.

• Able to work on-site at an Alpha campus located in La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, Miami, Miami Beach, or Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; or Boston, MA (relocation assistance is available).
• Bachelor's degree in any field.
• A minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4 to 9 (including early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership).
• A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a young child to achieve a challenging goal: the nature of the goal, the actions you took, and the result.
• Comfort with allowing AI to deliver instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching.
• Commitment to maintaining high expectations for students even in the face of resistance.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship.

• Background in youth sports coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori or progressive early education, or after-school programs where you were directly accountable for motivating young children toward defined goals.
• Personal record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional) that reflects a consistent pattern of holding yourself and others to demanding standards, not merely adopting that stance for this role.
• Natural performer's energy with young children: the capacity to captivate a room of kindergarteners using voice, humor, and physical presence.
• Demonstrated success in transforming shy or reluctant young children into confident, engaged participants.