Counselor

$100,000 USD/year ^{Pay is set based on global value, not the local market. Most roles = hourly rate x 40 hrs x 50 weeks}  ($50 USD/hour)

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other essential skills, modifying the 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 goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your personal connection with each student to overcome resistance
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill and coaching students who do not pass until mastery is achieved
• Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and physical activity to 8th graders needing direct conversation and accountability
• Serving as the adult who maintains high expectations and whom students trust and want to engage with; warmth creates the foundation for pushing students, and that push demonstrates your belief in their potential

• Delivering whiteboard lectures; academic content is provided through the apps, not through direct instruction
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; your role is to animate an established playbook with energy and narrative skill
• Passively monitoring students on computers; motivation in this context is active, personalized, and continuous
• Reducing weekly goals to make them easier for a student to achieve; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the target
• Grading assignments, facilitating standardized test preparation, or handling parent communications; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this model

Drive every student in your K-8 cohort to complete their weekly learning goals, achieve mastery in each life skill, and finish the year reporting that they loved you.

• Able to work in-person 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 of 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (classroom teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
• Ability to describe a concrete example of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: including the goal itself, your actions, and the result
• Comfort with allowing AI to manage instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Daily usage of generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
• Authorization to work in the US without requiring visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto campus)

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward defined objectives
• Personal track record of significant achievement (academic, athletic, or professional) that demonstrates holding others to high standards is natural behavior, not an adopted stance
• Narrative ability and stage presence sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
• Demonstrated success converting disengaged or resistant students into engaged contributors