Academic Success 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, distributed weekly. Full health coverage begins day one.
- Relocation assistance provided
You've reached the top of a brutally competitive arena. Maybe it was elite sports, a premier university where you excelled, a highly selective organization, or a company you launched and grew. You understand what separates participation from genuine competition. Now consider channeling that drive into a setting where K-12 students—who have never encountered someone with your caliber of experience—are pushed toward benchmarks they didn't believe were within reach.
Alpha leverages 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 meaningful development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal accomplishments model what's possible: someone capable of assessing group dynamics, establishing expectations, and guiding them through resistance, distraction, and uncertainty.
Your role is not to instruct; it's to mentor, challenge, and maintain the same exacting standards you've applied to yourself. You'll dedicate 80% of your time to direct 1-on-1 sessions, small-group coaching, and life-skills facilitation. The remaining 20% involves launching each day with purposeful openings that build a culture where average performance is unacceptable.
This trajectory isn't about advancing into management. It's about going deeper. You begin by mastering Alpha's framework and earning student trust. Within months, you become the person they rely on to push them beyond perceived limits. The payoff isn't a title. It's witnessing a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a confident presentation to a room of adults in May.
If you're seeking a way to leverage your elite experience for impact beyond your own career, apply now. If you require a scripted curriculum, a traditional classroom structure, or a clear administrative career path, this isn't the right fit.
What you will be doing
- Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching that identifies personal obstacles, establishes challenging targets, and ensures students follow through on commitments
- Leading structured life-skills sessions designed for competency development, not engagement alone, drawing on authentic stories from your own high-achievement background
- Evaluating student competency using platforms like Test2Pass and monitoring progress through Coachbot analytics to refine coaching approaches in real time
- Establishing campus-wide performance culture each morning with focused openings that reinforce excellence as the baseline expectation
- Cultivating trusted mentorship with students and families through consistent high standards and documented individualized motivation strategies
What you will NOT be doing
- Creating lesson plans, building curriculum, or evaluating assignments. Alpha's instructional system manages those functions independently.
- Presenting to large classroom groups of 30 students. Your focus is intensive coaching in intimate settings, not one-to-many instruction.
- Supervising other personnel or pursuing an administrative career track. This position centers on direct student influence, not organizational leadership.
- Attending faculty meetings or working through institutional red tape. Your schedule remains student-centered.
- Compromising standards to achieve numerical targets. If a student reaches 99%, your role is to identify what prevented 100%.
Key responsibilities
Lead outstanding student motivation, development, and life-skill competency at Alpha's most demanding 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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