Description
- On-site positions at Alpha School locations: New York City, NY · Orange County (Lake Forest), CA · San Francisco, CA · Santa Barbara, CA
- Annual compensation of $150,000, distributed weekly. Health benefits begin on your first day.
- Relocation assistance provided
You've reached the top of a brutally competitive arena. Perhaps through elite-level sports, graduation with honors from a premier university, selection into an exclusive firm, or launching a venture from the ground up. You understand the gap between mere participation and genuine competition. Now consider channeling that same drive into a setting where K-12 students gain access to someone of your caliber—someone committed to raising them to standards they never imagined achieving.
Alpha employs AI-driven 1:1 instruction that allows students to complete core academics in roughly two hours daily. The remaining hours are dedicated to life skills, passion projects, and substantive personal development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than basic oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal accomplishments model excellence: someone capable of assessing group dynamics, establishing expectations, and guiding students through resistance, distraction, and uncertainty.
Your role is not to deliver traditional instruction; it is to coach, challenge, and maintain the same exacting standards you've applied to yourself. Approximately 80% of your time will be spent in direct 1-on-1 coaching, small-group sessions, and life-skills workshops. The remaining 20% involves setting daily expectations through sharp morning kickoffs that cultivate a culture of excellence.
This trajectory is not about ascending into management. It centers on depth of impact. You begin by mastering Alpha's framework and earning students' trust. Within months, you become the person they rely on to push them beyond perceived limits. The payoff is not a title. It is witnessing a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a confident presentation to a room of adults in May.
If you have been seeking a way to leverage your elite experience beyond personal achievement, submit your application now. If you require a scripted curriculum, a conventional classroom structure, or a route to an administrative position, this role is not the right fit.
What you will be doing
- Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching that identifies specific obstacles, establishes ambitious targets, and enforces accountability for execution
- Facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery rather than engagement, drawing on authentic stories from your own high-performance background
- Evaluating student proficiency using platforms such as Test2Pass and monitoring development through Coachbot analytics to refine coaching approaches dynamically
- Establishing the campus culture each morning via focused kickoffs that communicate and reinforce high-performance standards
- Cultivating trusted mentorship with students and their families by maintaining high expectations, consistency, and documented motivation strategies
What you will NOT be doing
- Creating lesson plans, developing curricula, or grading student work. Alpha's academic system manages those functions independently.
- Teaching large groups of 30 students. Your focus is intensive coaching in small settings, not mass instruction.
- Supervising other personnel or pursuing advancement into administration. This position emphasizes direct impact on students, not organizational management.
- Attending traditional faculty meetings or working through institutional red tape. Your schedule remains centered on student interaction.
- Compromising standards to meet quotas. If a student achieves 99%, your role is to identify what prevented 100%.
Key responsibilities
Lead outstanding student motivation, development, and life-skill proficiency at Alpha's most demanding campuses.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- At least one demonstration of outstanding achievement in a highly competitive, internationally recognized field (examples include: medals from national or international competitions, honors from a top-tier university, selection into a highly exclusive firm or fellowship, training at an elite performing arts institution, or founding and growing a successful business)
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in student coaching, youth mentorship, athletic coaching, or leadership positions where you demonstrably improved others' performance
- Ability 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
- Authorization to work legally in the United States
Nice to have
- History in elite competitive sports (Division 1 varsity, national team representation, or professional competition) with coaching or mentoring experience for younger athletes
- Professional background in high-accountability sectors such as management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership
- Proven youth development experience through mentorship in settings outside traditional academics (community groups, after-school initiatives, sports camps)
- Confidence engaging with and earning trust from high-expectation families investing in premium private education
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