Leadership and Growth Coach $150,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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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 from day one.
- Relocation assistance provided
You've reached the pinnacle of a brutally competitive arena. Whether through elite sports, graduation with honors from a premier university, a role at a highly selective organization, or a venture you launched and grew independently, you understand what separates participation from real competition. Consider channeling that drive into classrooms filled with K-12 students who have never encountered someone with your credentials—someone ready to hold them to standards they never imagined they could meet.
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, passion projects, and authentic development. At Alpha's most demanding campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal accomplishments model excellence: someone capable of assessing group dynamics, establishing expectations, and guiding them through resistance, distraction, and uncertainty.
Your role is not to teach content; it's to coach, challenge, and maintain the same rigorous standards you've applied to yourself. You'll dedicate 80% of your time to direct 1-on-1 coaching, small-group sessions, and life-skills instruction. The remaining 20% involves setting daily expectations through focused opening sessions that cultivate a culture where mediocrity is unacceptable.
This trajectory is not about advancing into management. It's about mastery. You begin by mastering Alpha's methodology and earning student trust. Within months, you become the person they rely on to push them beyond perceived limits. The return isn't a title change. It's witnessing a student who avoided eye contact in September confidently addressing a room of adults in May.
If you've been seeking a way to leverage your elite credentials for impact beyond your own career, apply now. If you require a scripted curriculum, a conventional classroom structure, or a route to administrative positions, this isn't the right fit.
What you will be doing
- Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching that identifies individual obstacles, establishes ambitious targets, and ensures students remain accountable for execution
- Facilitating 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 coaching approaches continuously
- Establishing cultural expectations each morning via focused kickoffs that reinforce high-performance standards campus-wide
- Cultivating trusted mentor relationships with students and families by maintaining high standards, consistency, and documented development plans
What you will NOT be doing
- Creating lesson plans, developing curriculum, or evaluating assignments. Alpha's academic infrastructure handles those functions independently.
- Presenting to large classroom groups of 30 students. Your focus is intensive coaching in small settings, not mass instruction.
- Supervising other personnel or pursuing an administrative career track. This position centers on direct student outcomes, not organizational management.
- Attending faculty meetings or navigating institutional bureaucracy. Your schedule remains concentrated on student engagement.
- Compromising standards to achieve targets. If a student reaches 99%, your responsibility is determining what prevented 100%.
Key responsibilities
Deliver exceptional student motivation, development, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's most demanding campuses.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- At least one documented instance of exceptional achievement in a highly selective, globally recognized field (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)
- Minimum 3 years of experience in student coaching, youth mentoring, athletic coaching, or leadership positions where you demonstrably elevated others' performance
- Willingness to work on-site at an Alpha campus in New York City, NY; Orange County (Lake Forest), CA; San Francisco, CA; or Santa Barbara, CA
- Legal authorization to work in the United States
Nice to have
- History in elite competitive athletics (varsity D1, national team, or professional level) with coaching or mentoring experience for younger athletes
- Experience in high-accountability sectors such as management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership
- Proven youth development record through mentoring in non-academic contexts (community organizations, after-school programs, sports camps)
- Ability to present effectively and build credibility with high-expectation families investing in premium private school tuition
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