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Career Coach $100,000 USD/year
Description
- $100,000 annual W2 compensation paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage starting on day one
- Full-time on-site position at an Alpha K-8 school in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; 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 metro) – relocation assistance available
This role is not about teaching. It is about motivation.
The most meaningful support you can offer a student who reaches 99% of their target is to insist it is not yet complete. If that principle causes hesitation, this role is not for you. If it resonates because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a student's capability, continue reading.
At Alpha, academic learning occurs through AI-driven applications. No classroom lectures. No physical textbooks. Half of your day is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering topics like public speaking, focus, and constructive feedback. The remaining half involves meeting with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their performance via Coachbot data, and driving each toward 100% completion of weekly app-based learning targets. You will not follow a rigid script—workshops provide a foundation, but top performers customize them and create new content when needed.
Success in a given quarter means every student in your group completes their weekly app objectives, passes the Test2Pass for all life-skills workshops, and 90% or more report they value your coaching. Falling short on any of these three metrics means the role's expectations have not been met. In your first year, you will master the operational playbook; once you demonstrate your ability to uphold standards, advancement to Lead Guide becomes possible, where you mentor new hires while continuing direct student work.
If you prefer conventional teaching methods, need fully developed curriculum delivered to you, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible, this position will not suit you. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp counseling, tutoring where you refused to accept a student's surrender, or performance work that commanded the attention of young children, the final interview stage is a full on-campus day coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you most, submit your application now.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 student groups on subjects including public speaking, focus, feedback, and other transferable competencies, modifying the standard playbook and creating new sessions when you identify unmet needs
- Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions designed to drive every student to 100% completion of their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (campus currency, performance leaderboards), and your personal rapport with each student to overcome reluctance
- Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill, then coaching students who fall short until they achieve passing performance
- Adjusting your approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and kinesthetic engagement to eighth graders needing candid dialogue and personal accountability
- Serving as the adult who maintains high expectations and the adult students trust; warmth creates the foundation for challenge, and challenge communicates your confidence in their potential
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering instruction at a whiteboard; academic content is embedded in the applications, not your direct teaching
- Developing curriculum from the ground up; you activate an established playbook through energy and narrative skill
- Passively monitoring students on devices; motivation in this model is engaged, individualized, and sustained
- Reducing a weekly target to enable a student to meet it; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the standard
- Assigning grades to homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not apply here
Key responsibilities
Guarantee that every student in your K-8 group achieves their weekly learning targets, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and concludes the year expressing genuine appreciation for your coaching.
Candidate requirements
- Available to work full-time on-site at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX (Central, South, or The Woodlands); Park City, UT – relocation assistance provided
- Bachelor's degree in any field
- Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (including classroom instruction, coaching, tutoring, camp leadership, or youth program management)
- A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging objective: the objective itself, your actions, and the result
- Comfort allowing AI to manage instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development
- Regular use of generative AI platforms (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
- Authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto location)
Nice to have
- Background in youth sports coaching, debate programs, camp leadership, theater, or after-school initiatives 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 reflects consistent practice, not adopted rhetoric
- Narrative ability and presence sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without volume escalation
- Proven success converting disengaged or resistant students into willing, active contributors
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