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Counselor $100,000 USD/year
Description
- W2 salary of $100,000/year with weekly pay; health, dental, and vision benefits begin day one
- On-site position 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, TX (Central, South, or The Woodlands); Park City, UT (Salt Lake City area); or Toronto, Canada (relocation assistance available)
Your role is not instruction. It is motivation.
The most powerful support you can offer a student who reached 99% of their goal is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation unsettles you, this role is not a fit. If it energizes you—because you know that maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a student's potential—read on.
At Alpha, academic content is delivered through AI-driven applications. No traditional lectures. No textbooks. Half of your day is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering topics like public speaking, focus, and constructive feedback. The other half is dedicated to 1:1 and small-group sessions where you use Coachbot analytics to monitor progress and drive each student toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets. You will not follow a rigid script—workshops provide a foundation, but top performers in this role customize them and create new content when needed.
Success in a quarter means every student in your cohort completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for all life-skills workshops, and 90%+ report that they love you. Falling short on any of these three is falling short of the role. In your first year, you will master the system; once you demonstrate your ability to uphold standards, opportunities open to advance to Lead Guide, where you mentor new hires while continuing direct work with students.
If you are drawn to traditional classroom teaching, prefer ready-made curriculum, or see warmth and rigor as incompatible, this position is not for you. If you have experience as a sports coach, camp counselor, tutor who refused to let students give up, or performer capable of captivating a group of eight-year-olds, the final stage before an offer is 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 groups on topics including public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational competencies, customizing the playbook and creating new sessions when you identify a need
- Conducting daily 1:1 and small-group coaching sessions designed to drive every student to 100% of their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and individual relationships to overcome resistance
- Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill, and providing continued coaching to students until they achieve mastery
- Adjusting your approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and physical activity to 8th graders needing candid conversation and clear accountability
- Serving as the adult who maintains high expectations and the adult students trust and want to confide in; warmth creates the foundation to challenge, and challenge demonstrates your confidence in their ability
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering traditional lectures at a whiteboard; academic content is embedded in the applications, not delivered by you
- Creating curriculum materials from the ground up; you bring an established playbook to life through engagement and narrative
- Passively monitoring students while they work on computers; motivation in this role is active, individualized, and persistent
- Reducing a weekly target to help a student reach it; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not lowering the standard
- Grading assignments, administering standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent communication, and the other tasks do not exist in this model
Key responsibilities
Drive every student in your K-8 cohort to complete their weekly learning targets, achieve mastery in each life skill, and finish 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 field
- 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 goal itself, your actions, and the result
- Comfort with AI managing instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development
- Regular use of generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
- Legal authorization to work in the US without 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 goals
- Personal track record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to rigorous standards is habitual, not performative
- Storytelling ability and stage presence sufficient to command the attention of a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without escalating volume
- Demonstrated success converting disengaged or reluctant students into engaged, active learners
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