Athletic Director $150,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- Campus-based position at an Alpha site: Dallas, TX · Oklahoma City, OK · Austin, TX · Fort Worth, TX
- $150,000 annual W2 compensation, distributed weekly. Health benefits begin day one.
- Relocation assistance provided
The most powerful support you can offer a student who achieved 99% is honest feedback that they fell short.
Not because flawless execution is the goal. Because genuine belief in someone's capacity for growth is among the most respectful things you can demonstrate.
Traditional schools shield students from setbacks. Alpha equips them for achievement. We maintain that confidence emerges not from diminished expectations but from guiding students to accomplish what they previously considered impossible. This conviction informs everything we do.
Our approach is intentionally distinct. Students advance through academics autonomously via AI-driven platforms, which allows adults to concentrate on transformative work: mentoring character development, cultivating resilience, fostering leadership, and establishing habits that produce remarkable results. We don't require adults to transmit information. We need leaders capable of drawing out excellence in others.
This position anchors that mission. You'll develop the Guides who engage directly with students, transforming them into outstanding coaches rather than conventional instructors. You'll facilitate life skills sessions that students recall years afterward. You'll leverage performance metrics to pinpoint where students or Guides need support and guide them toward mastery. You'll simultaneously lead your own student group, demonstrating the very standards you uphold for others.
The impact multiplies exponentially. Each Guide you mentor shapes dozens of students. Every cultural enhancement you introduce reverberates across hundreds of young lives. Success isn't defined by meeting attendance or documentation volume. It's determined by whether students grow more confident, disciplined, resilient, and competent because of the environment you cultivated.
This position isn't designed for someone seeking to maintain existing educational structures. It's intended for someone convinced that young people merit more than obedience, attendance requirements, and mediocre standards. If you're motivated by guiding others through meaningful challenges, applying data to inform superior decisions, and maintaining elevated expectations because you truly believe in others' capabilities, this role will energize you.
Apply if you're prepared to establish a culture where excellence is the baseline, coaching transforms lives, and students realize they're capable of achievements beyond their prior assumptions.
What you will be doing
- Develop and mentor Guides to execute Alpha's coaching framework with reliability, enthusiasm, and rigorous standards.
- Facilitate dynamic life skills sessions addressing communication, concentration, feedback mechanisms, leadership principles, and resilience for elementary and middle school students using established curricula.
- Analyze student and Guide performance metrics to recognize coaching needs, eliminate obstacles, and generate quantifiable progress each week.
- Conduct motivational sessions that empower every student to embrace challenging goals and reliably reach them.
- Oversee your own student group while exemplifying the coaching quality and responsibility you require from all Guides.
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering instruction in academic disciplines. Students progress through core subjects independently via AI-enhanced learning platforms.
- Developing lesson frameworks or educational content. Your focus is superior coaching, not producing teaching materials.
- Controlling classroom environments through presentations, handouts, or behavioral management systems. Students direct their own learning, and you coach the practices that enable achievement.
- Reducing standards to circumvent challenging discussions. Elevated expectations and authentic confidence in each student's capability are inseparable.
- Defining success through volume of activity rather than outcomes. Impact supersedes effort in isolation.
Key responsibilities
Establish a coaching environment where outstanding Guides reliably nurture students who are passionate about learning, achieve academic mastery at accelerated rates, and develop the resilience, leadership capabilities, and practical skills necessary for success extending well beyond academic settings.
Candidate requirements
- Available to work on-site in Dallas, TX; Oklahoma City, OK; Austin, TX; or Fort Worth, TX (relocation assistance available).
- Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, Organizational Leadership, or related discipline.
Minimum 5 years leading adults within education, talent development, youth leadership programs, coaching contexts, or similar results-oriented environments. - Verified success managing teams of five or more individuals, encompassing recruitment, development, performance oversight, and challenging accountability discussions.
- Direct experience working with children aged 5-14 in educational, developmental, athletic, or youth leadership capacities.
- Documented history of creating, launching, expanding, or substantially enhancing a program, team, educational institution, enterprise, or initiative.
- Established capability using performance data and analytics to identify issues, sequence priorities, and produce measurable outcomes.
- Legal authorization for employment in the United States.
Nice to have
- Master's degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or related field.
- Background in athletic coaching, outdoor or adventure-based education leadership, camp direction, youth program management, or other group-based organizations.
- Experience creating or managing innovative educational initiatives, EdTech ventures, tutoring services, nonprofit programs, or learning systems beyond conventional classroom instruction.
- Personal record of outstanding performance in academic pursuits, athletics, entrepreneurial ventures, or leadership roles.
- Firm belief that education should cultivate capable, resilient, self-directed young people rather than merely transmit academic material.
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