Description
- Houston. 200,000 dollar salary, paid weekly
- Day-one health benefits, HSA, FSA
Are you exhausted watching Houston students get held back by a system that won't let you enforce the standards they deserve?
Alpha is launching a flagship campus here, and we need a leader who already understands this city's education reality. You'll lead 15 plus Guides who coach and motivate students while our EdTech platform handles all instruction. No "teaching". Lots of doing. Pure leadership.
Your mission: ensure every student loves school, learns twice as fast as traditional classrooms, and masters critical life skills. This is not a traditional Principal role. You'll enforce uncompromising standards, make data-driven decisions, and build Houston's best school from day one.
Lead with data. Coach to excellence. Apply now.
What you will be doing
- Launch Houston's flagship Alpha location: Deliver Alpha's three promises to 100 plus students from day one with operational excellence across the board.
- Run live workshops with K through 12 students teaching life skills: Deliver engaging one-hour sessions on public speaking, growth mindset, giving and receiving feedback. Follow Alpha's playbook to ensure students master skills traditional schools ignore while having fun.
- Motivate every student to 100 percent goal attainment: Build individual motivational models for each student. Use data-driven techniques to overcome resistance and keep kids engaged with the Alpha platform. Success means every student hits their targets.
- Coach Guides to excellence: Use quantitative and qualitative data to identify performance gaps. Deliver clear, actionable feedback in coaching sessions and track improvement. Hold your team accountable with logic and objectivity, not empathy that compromises standards.
- Make data-driven campus leadership decisions: Analyze performance across staff, operations, parent communication, and culture. Define problems, conduct root cause analysis, consult stakeholders, implement measurable changes. Track every decision and adjust based on results.
- Enforce excellence without compromise: Set and maintain Alpha's quality bar for students and staff. Make tough calls when performance falls short. Lead by example as the standard-bearer on your campus.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or related field. Master's preferred.
- At least 7 years of experience in education, learning and development, coaching, business, or related field
- Direct experience building and managing teams of at least 15 people with full hiring and firing authority
- Deep knowledge of the Houston or wider Texas education landscape. This insight into local student needs, community dynamics, and competitive school environment is highly valuable to Alpha's Houston launch.
- Experience working with youth ages 5 through 14
- Strong data analysis skills and experience using metrics to drive decision-making and continuous improvement
- Passion for transforming education. Belief that the traditional system is fundamentally broken.
- Startup mindset: thrives under pressure, adaptable in new situations, comfortable building systems from scratch
- Compelling and energetic speaker who commands attention from rooms full of students or staff
- Able to relate to K through 12 students, understand their interests and culture, serve as a positive role model
- Legally authorized to work in the United States
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