Student Performance Strategist $150,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
Most roles = hourly rate x 40 hrs x 50 weeks
Description
- On-site at Alpha School locations: New York City, NY · Orange County (Lake Forest), CA · San Francisco, CA · Santa Barbara, CA
- $150,000 annual salary, paid weekly. Health benefits begin day one.
- Relocation assistance provided
You have excelled in an intensely competitive arena. Perhaps elite sports, a distinguished degree from a top university, a role at a highly selective organization, or a company you founded and grew. You understand the gap between participation and actual competition. Consider channeling that rigor into a classroom of K-12 students who have never encountered someone with your credentials, someone ready to elevate them to standards they never imagined achieving.
Alpha employs AI-driven 1:1 instruction, enabling students to complete core academics in roughly two hours daily. The remaining time is dedicated to life skills, interest-based projects, and meaningful development. At Alpha's most demanding campuses, students require more than oversight. They require a credible mentor whose track record speaks for itself: someone capable of assessing dynamics, establishing expectations, and guiding them through resistance, distraction, and uncertainty.
Your role is not to instruct content; it is to mentor, challenge, and uphold the same rigorous standard you have applied to yourself. You will dedicate 80% of your time to direct 1-on-1 and small-group mentoring sessions and life-skills instruction. The remaining 20% involves establishing daily tone through purposeful kickoffs that cultivate a culture rejecting mediocrity.
The trajectory here does not lead toward management. It is about mastery. You begin by mastering Alpha's methodology and earning student trust. Within months, you become the person they trust enough to push them beyond perceived limits. The payoff is not a title. It is witnessing a student who avoided eye contact in September confidently address a room of adults by May.
If you seek a way to leverage your elite accomplishments beyond personal advancement, apply now. If you require prescribed lesson plans, predictable classrooms, or a pathway to administration, this is not your role.
What you will be doing
- Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group mentoring sessions that identify individual obstacles, establish ambitious targets, and ensure student accountability for execution
- Leading structured life-skills instruction designed for mastery rather than engagement, drawing on authentic examples from your own elite achievements
- Evaluating student mastery using platforms such as Test2Pass and monitoring progress through Coachbot analytics to refine mentoring approaches dynamically
- Establishing campus-wide cultural expectations each morning via focused kickoffs that reinforce high-performance standards
- Developing trusted mentorship with students and families by maintaining high standards, consistency, and documented motivation strategies
What you will NOT be doing
- Creating lesson plans, developing curriculum, or evaluating assignments. Alpha's academic system manages that independently.
- Instructing large classes of 30 students. Your work centers on intensive mentoring in small settings, not traditional teaching.
- Supervising other personnel or advancing through administrative ranks. This position focuses on direct student outcomes, not organizational structure.
- Attending faculty meetings or navigating institutional bureaucracy. Your schedule remains concentrated on students.
- Compromising standards to meet targets. If a student achieves 99%, your task is identifying what prevented 100%.
Key responsibilities
Drive exceptional student motivation, growth, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's highest-expectation campuses.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- At least one instance of exceptional achievement in a highly selective, globally recognized domain (examples: national or international competition medals, top-tier university with distinction, highly selective firm or fellowship, elite performing arts institution, or founding and scaling a successful venture)
- At least 3 years of experience in student coaching, youth mentoring, athletic coaching, or leadership roles where you measurably raised others' performance
- Willingness to work in-person at an Alpha campus in New York City, NY; Orange County (Lake Forest), CA; San Francisco, CA; or Santa Barbara, CA
- Legal right to work in the United States
Nice to have
- Background in elite competitive athletics (varsity D1, national team, or professional level) with experience coaching or mentoring younger athletes
- Experience in high-accountability environments like management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership
- Track record of youth development through mentoring in non-academic settings (community organizations, after-school programs, sports camps)
- Comfort presenting to and building trust with high-expectation families paying premium private school tuition
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