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Career Coach $100,000 USD/year
Description
- $100,000 annual W2 compensation, distributed weekly; comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage begins day one
- On-campus placement at an Alpha K-8 school in Denver, CO; Atlanta, GA; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston (Central, South, or The Woodlands), TX; Park City, UT (Salt Lake City region); or Toronto, Canada (relocation assistance available)
This is not a teaching position. This is a motivation position.
The most meaningful thing you can do for a student who achieves 99% of their target is decline to accept it as complete. If that expectation makes you hesitate, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a student's potential, continue reading.
At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-driven applications. No classroom lectures. No traditional textbooks. Half your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering topics like public speaking, focus, and constructive feedback exchange. The other half involves working with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress via Coachbot analytics, and driving each one toward 100% completion of their weekly app objectives. You will not be reading from a script—workshops provide structure, but high performers in this role customize them and create new content when gaps emerge.
A successful quarter means every student in your cohort completes their weekly app objectives, passes the Test2Pass for all life-skills workshops, and 90%+ report that they love you. Falling short on any of these three metrics means the role has not been fulfilled. In your first year you internalize the system; as you demonstrate your ability to uphold standards, advancement to Lead Guide becomes possible, where you mentor new team members while continuing direct student work.
If you prefer traditional classroom instruction, need curriculum delivered to you fully formed, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible, this role will not suit you. If you have been a sports coach, summer camp counselor, tutor who refused to let students give up, or performer capable of commanding a room of young children, the final step before an offer is spending a full day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you most, submit your application today.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational competencies, customizing the framework and creating new sessions when you identify needs
- Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching sessions that drive every student to 100% completion of their weekly app objectives, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's motivational systems (school currency, leaderboards), and your individual relationship with each student to overcome resistance
- Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who do not pass until mastery is achieved
- Adjusting your approach across a broad developmental spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and physical activity to 8th graders needing direct conversation and personal accountability
- Serving as the adult who maintains standards and the adult students trust; warmth creates the foundation for challenge, and challenge communicates your confidence in their capability
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering whiteboard instruction; academic content is embedded in the applications, not your responsibility
- Creating curriculum from the ground up; you activate an established framework through energy and narrative skill
- Passively monitoring students at workstations; motivation here is hands-on, individualized, and persistent
- Reducing a weekly target to enable a student to meet it; when a student is behind, the intervention focuses on the student, not the goal
- Evaluating homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the rest does not apply in this environment
Key responsibilities
Guarantee that every student in your K-8 cohort completes their weekly learning objectives, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they loved you.
Candidate requirements
- Able to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Denver, CO; Atlanta, GA; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX (Central, South, or The Woodlands); Park City, UT; or Toronto, Canada (relocation assistance provided)
- Bachelor's degree in any discipline
- Minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (classroom instruction, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
- A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: the objective, your actions, and the result
- Comfort allowing AI to deliver instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development
- Active daily use of generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
- Authorization to work legally in the US without requiring visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto location)
Nice to have
- Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after-school programming where you held direct accountability for motivating children toward defined outcomes
- Demonstrated personal achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), indicating that holding others to rigorous standards is inherent, not performative
- Narrative ability and stage presence sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without relying on volume
- Proven success converting disengaged or reluctant students into committed participants
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