Youth Development Manager $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 role at an Alpha campus: Atlanta, GA · Oklahoma City, OK · Tulsa, OK · Austin, TX · Keller (Fort Worth), TX · The Woodlands (Houston), TX · Park City (Salt Lake City), UT · Toronto, Canada
- $150,000 annual W2 salary, disbursed weekly. Health benefits begin day one.
- Relocation assistance provided
The best thing you can tell a kid who earned 99% is that they fell short. If that statement bothers you, this isn't your role. If it resonates, continue reading.
Alpha students complete their academic work in two hours daily using self-directed AI-driven applications. No traditional teachers. No lectures. No classroom-based subject instruction. That structure allows you to focus on what truly shifts outcomes: facilitating high-impact workshops on public speaking, concentration, and feedback; using live data to motivate students toward complete goal attainment; and developing the Guides who support your work.
A typical day might begin with a one-on-one Guide coaching conversation, analyzing performance metrics to pinpoint where a cohort is underperforming. By midday you're facilitating a structured student workshop, executing a playbook exercise on feedback exchange. Your afternoons involve motivation work: engaging individual students, identifying their drivers, and leveraging Alpha's incentive framework to re-engage a reluctant middle schooler. You maintain your own cohort throughout, keeping your skills aligned with what you're teaching others.
You've likely been the outlier in education: excessively analytical, overly outcome-oriented, too ready to question conventional approaches with students. Alpha may be the first environment that makes sense. You'll begin coaching Guides immediately, and as you produce measurable results, your impact on campus-wide program standards expands.
Uphold the standard. Transform the student. Submit your application.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating one-hour structured workshops on life competencies (public speaking, concentration, feedback exchange) for K-8 cohorts, executing Alpha's established playbook rather than creating content
- Conducting motivation sessions leveraging student data and Alpha's incentive architecture (school currency, leaderboards) to achieve 100% goal completion across your cohort
- Developing Guides on program adherence and standards maintenance, ensuring each coaching interaction yields specific improvement steps
- Carrying your own student cohort while simultaneously developing other Guides
- Monitoring student satisfaction metrics, goal completion percentages, and Guide performance indicators weekly to identify deterioration before it escalates
What you will NOT be doing
- Teaching or tutoring academic content to students. Academic learning occurs through self-directed applications without adult supervision.
- Creating curriculum or developing original lesson plans. The playbook is established; your responsibility is precise execution, not creative design.
- Developing Guides on pedagogical methods. Guides don't deliver instruction, so your coaching centers on energy, motivation, and accountability.
- Permitting a pass when a student achieves 99% rather than 100%. Maintaining standards demonstrates your confidence in their capability.
- Serving as the campus emotional anchor. Students receive genuine connection here, alongside direct feedback and meaningful accountability.
Key responsibilities
Execute Alpha's three commitments to every student in your cohort: they develop a genuine love for school, achieve learning velocity double that of traditional classrooms, and build substantive life competencies.
Candidate requirements
- Available to work on-site at one of the following locations: Atlanta, GA; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Austin, TX; Keller (Fort Worth), TX; The Woodlands (Houston), TX; Park City (Salt Lake City), UT; or Toronto, Canada (relocation assistance available)
- Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or related discipline
- Minimum 5 years of experience in education, learning and development, coaching, youth leadership, or equivalent field
- Demonstrated history of managing a team of 5+ adults, including responsibility for hiring and performance-based termination decisions
- Hands-on experience working with children ages 5-14 in educational or developmental contexts
- Experience building, launching, or substantially scaling a program, team, business, school, or initiative from inception
- Documented use of data and metrics to establish weekly objectives and inform decisions, beyond passive reporting
- Legal authorization to work in the United States or Canada
Nice to have
- Master's degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or related discipline
- Experience coaching athletics, leading outdoor or experiential programs, managing camps, or directing youth ministry at a scale requiring cohort management and outcome measurement
- Transitioned from classroom teaching to program development or operations roles in EdTech, tutoring enterprises, youth-focused nonprofits, or school intervention initiatives
- Early-career history of exceptional individual performance — academically, athletically, or professionally — prior to entering leadership
- Conviction that the existing education system requires fundamental restructuring and personal commitment to that mission
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