Elite Academic Mentor $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
- Annual compensation of $150,000, distributed weekly. Health benefits begin day one.
- Support for relocation provided
You have excelled at the highest levels of a demanding field. Perhaps through elite sports, a distinguished degree from a top university, a position at a highly selective organization, or a venture you launched and grew yourself. You understand what separates mere participation from true competition. Consider now channeling that drive into a setting where K-12 students gain access to someone of your caliber—someone committed to holding 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 rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal accomplishments establish the benchmark: an individual capable of reading dynamics, establishing expectations, and guiding students through resistance, distraction, and uncertainty.
Your role is not to instruct; it is to coach, challenge, and maintain the same exacting standards you have applied to yourself. You will dedicate 80% of your time to direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching interactions and life-skills programming. The remaining 20% involves setting the daily tone through focused openings that cultivate a culture where mediocrity is unacceptable.
The trajectory here does not lead toward management. It centers on mastery. You begin by mastering Alpha's methodology and earning students' trust. Within months, you become the person they rely on to push them beyond perceived limits. The reward is not a title. It is witnessing a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a confident presentation to adults in May.
If you have been seeking a way to leverage your elite background toward something beyond personal achievement, apply now. If you require a scripted curriculum, a conventional classroom, or a route to administration, this is not 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
- Leading structured life-skills programming designed for mastery rather than engagement, drawing on credible examples from your own elite experience
- Evaluating student mastery using platforms such as Test2Pass and monitoring progress through Coachbot analytics to refine coaching approaches in real time
- Establishing the campus cultural standard each morning via focused openings that reinforce high-performance expectations
- Cultivating trusted mentorship with students and families through consistency, elevated standards, and documented motivation frameworks
What you will NOT be doing
- Creating lesson plans, developing curriculum, or evaluating assignments. Alpha's academic structure manages those functions independently.
- Delivering lectures to 30-student classrooms. Your focus is intensive coaching in small settings, not large-group instruction.
- Supervising staff or pursuing an administrative career path. This position emphasizes direct student influence, not organizational advancement.
- Attending faculty meetings or managing institutional processes. Your time remains concentrated on students.
- Compromising standards to meet quotas. If a student achieves 99%, your responsibility is to identify what prevented 100%.
Key responsibilities
Lead outstanding student motivation, development, and life-skill achievement 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 arena (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 of 3 years of experience in student coaching, youth mentoring, athletic coaching, or leadership positions where you demonstrably elevated others' performance
- Availability 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 tier) with coaching or mentoring experience for younger athletes
- Background in high-accountability settings such as management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership
- Demonstrated youth development through mentoring in non-academic contexts (community organizations, after-school programs, sports camps)
- Confidence engaging with and earning trust from high-expectation families investing in premium private education
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