Youth Mentor $100,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- On-site at Alpha campuses in Denver, CO | Atlanta, GA | Nashville, TN | Fort Worth, TX | Houston, TX | Park City, UT
- $100,000 annual salary, distributed weekly. Full health, dental, and vision coverage begins on day one
- Relocation assistance available for those willing to move
The most caring action you can take for a student who achieved 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that principle unsettles you, this position is not the right fit. If it energizes you—because you understand that maintaining high standards demonstrates your belief in a student's capability—continue reading.
Alpha operates differently from conventional schools. Students complete a full academic day in approximately two hours using adaptive software. No classroom lectures. No traditional textbooks. Your role focuses on what technology cannot replicate: guiding young people through essential life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback exchange. You'll facilitate interactive workshops, drive students toward achieving their learning targets, and develop relationships that transform a reserved 4th grader into someone who presents with confidence before adult audiences.
This position grows over time. During your first year, you'll manage a small student cohort and become expert in Alpha's methodology: life skill workshops, motivational coaching sessions, mastery-based evaluation. Once you demonstrate the ability to hold every student accountable to 100% goal completion while maintaining satisfaction scores above 90%, advancement to Lead Guide becomes possible—where you'll mentor a team while remaining directly engaged with students. The most effective people in this role don't simply transform individual trajectories; they influence how an entire campus functions.
Traditional schools don't offer this opportunity. If you've been working with kids in coaching, counseling, or mentoring capacities and wish you could eliminate instructional teaching to focus purely on their development, this is the right transition.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating one-hour life skill workshops for K-12 students covering subjects like public speaking, concentration, time management, and constructive feedback practices (interactive and project-driven, never lecture-based)
- Leading daily motivation sessions where you engage individual students, assess their adaptive learning app progress (via Coachbot analytics), and drive them to achieve 100% of weekly targets
- Organizing and conducting mastery-based assessments (Test2Pass) to verify students have genuinely mastered each skill, not merely attended
- Establishing authentic connections with each student so they trust your guidance through challenges like resistance, distraction, and uncertainty
- Monitoring student advancement using satisfaction scores and goal completion data, modifying your methods when outcomes don't meet expectations
What you will NOT be doing
- Presenting classroom lectures or providing conventional academic instruction (students acquire core subjects through independent adaptive applications, not from you)
- Creating lesson plans from the ground up (Alpha supplies life skills curriculum and playbooks; your responsibility is to execute them with enthusiasm and narrative skill)
- Handling parent communications or school administrative duties (Campus Leads oversee those areas; you remain concentrated on your students)
- Evaluating homework or coordinating standardized test preparation (these elements don't exist at Alpha)
- Operating independently (you're integrated into a campus team with Lead Guides, Campus Leads, and colleagues who exchange feedback and maintain mutual accountability)
Key responsibilities
Guarantee that every student in your cohort develops a love for school, achieves mastery of critical life skills, and reaches 100% of their academic objectives through adaptive learning technology.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree in any field
- 3+ years of experience working directly with K-8 students (teaching, coaching, counseling, or youth program leadership)
- Willingness to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Denver, CO; Atlanta, GA; Nashville, TN; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City, UT (relocation support provided)
- Ability to attend a paid training program at Alpha's Austin, TX campus
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Background in youth development: athletic coaching, camp leadership, or youth program work where you held direct responsibility for motivating children to achieve specific objectives
- History of notable personal accomplishment (academic distinctions, competitive athletics, or leadership positions requiring sustained excellence)
- Innate storytelling capability: you can maintain the attention of a room filled with 12-year-olds for an hour without elevating your voice
- Success motivating disengaged or reluctant students and converting them into engaged participants
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