Student Success 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 public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, customizing the playbook for your cohort rather than following it verbatim.
• Conducting daily 1:1 and small-group coaching sessions that ensure every student stays on track to meet weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the individual relationship you have cultivated with each child.
• Delivering the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based assessment, for each life skill, and coaching students who fall short until mastery is achieved.
• Engaging kindergarteners at their developmental level with songs, stories, physical activity, and playfulness while maintaining clear, measurable expectations for second and third graders.
• Serving as the warm adult children are excited to see at morning drop-off AND the adult who will not permit them to settle for less.

• Delivering content from a whiteboard. Academic instruction is embedded in the apps, not delivered by you.
• Designing curriculum from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook and you execute it with intention.
• Passively monitoring children at computers. Motivation in this role is direct, individualized, and sustained.
• Adjusting a weekly target downward so a child can meet it. If a student is struggling, the solution is to support the student, not lower the bar.
• Grading assignments, facilitating standardized test preparation, or managing parent outreach. Campus Leads handle parent communication, and the other tasks do not exist in this model.

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

• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus 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 support provided).
• Bachelor's degree in any subject.
• At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4 to 9 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership).
• A specific example you can describe of motivating a young child to a hard goal: the goal, what you did, and the outcome.
• Willingness to let AI handle the instructional content while you focus on motivation and life-skills coaching.
• Willingness to hold high standards with students even when they push back.
• Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship.

• Experience in youth athletics coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you were directly responsible for motivating young kids toward specific goals.
• Personal history of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to a hard bar is a pattern, not a posture.
• Natural performer's presence with little kids: the ability to hold a room of kindergarteners through voice, silliness, and movement.
• Track record of turning shy or resistant little kids into confident, active participants.