Early Childhood Educator

$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 topics including public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational competencies, adapting the playbook to fit your cohort rather than delivering it verbatim.
• Conducting daily one-on-one and small-group motivation sessions to keep every student on track for weekly app completion, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the individual relationship you have built with each child.
• Administering Alpha's mastery-based assessment, the Test2Pass, for each life skill, and coaching students who do not pass on the first attempt until they achieve mastery.
• Meeting kindergarteners at their developmental level with songs, storytelling, physical activity, and humor while maintaining real, 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 allow them to settle for less than their capability.

• Delivering lessons from the whiteboard. Academic content is delivered through the apps, not through direct instruction from you.
• Creating curriculum materials from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook and your role is to bring it to life.
• Passively supervising children as they work on computers. Motivation in this model is active, relational, and sustained.
• Reducing a weekly target so that a child can meet it. When a student falls behind, the solution is to coach the student, not adjust the goal.
• Grading assignments, running test preparation sessions, or managing communication with parents. Campus Leads handle parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this model.

Ensure that every student in your K-3 cohort completes their weekly learning targets, achieves mastery of 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.