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Youth Counselor $100,000 USD/year
Description
- $100,000/year W2 salary, paid weekly; health, dental, and vision benefits from day one
- On-site at an Alpha K-8 campus 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 area) - relocation assistance available
Your role is not to teach. Your role is to motivate.
The most meaningful thing you can do for a student who reached 99% of their goal is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation troubles you, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a student's potential, read on.
At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-powered applications. No lectures. No textbooks. You will spend half your day facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops focused on public speaking, concentration, and the practice of giving and receiving meaningful feedback. The other half, you work with students individually or in small groups, analyze their progress using Coachbot analytics, and drive each one toward 100% completion of their weekly app objectives. You will not follow a rigid script—workshops provide a framework, but those who excel in this position customize them and create new ones when needed.
A successful quarter means every student in your cohort completes their weekly app objectives, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90%+ report that they love you. Falling short on any of these three means the role has not been fulfilled. In your first year you will master the system; as you demonstrate your ability to maintain standards, you can advance to Lead Guide, where you mentor newer team members while continuing to work directly with students.
If you prefer traditional teaching, want a ready-made curriculum, or see warmth and rigor as incompatible, this position is not a fit. If you have been an athletic coach, a camp counselor, a tutor who refused to let a student give up, or a performer who could captivate a room of eight-year-olds, the final stage before an offer is a full day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that is what 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, concentration, feedback, and other foundational competencies, customizing the playbook and creating new sessions when you identify a need
- Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions that drive every student to 100% completion of their weekly app objectives, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your personal connection with each student to overcome resistance
- Administering 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 coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners who require high energy and physical activity to 8th graders who need direct conversation and accountability
- Serving as the adult who upholds the standard and the adult students trust; warmth creates the foundation for challenge, and challenge demonstrates your confidence in their capability
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering lessons at a whiteboard; academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you
- Creating curriculum from the ground up; you execute a proven playbook with energy and narrative skill
- Monitoring students at computers; motivation in this role is active, personalized, and persistent
- Reducing a weekly target to help a student reach it; when a student is struggling, the solution is supporting the student, not lowering the standard
- Grading assignments, administering standardized test preparation, or handling parent communications; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this model
Key responsibilities
Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort completes their weekly learning objectives, achieves mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they loved you.
Candidate requirements
- Willing to work 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 available
- Bachelor's degree in any field
- At least 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 share of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: the objective, your actions, and the result
- Willingness to allow AI to manage instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
- Daily 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 campus)
Nice to have
- Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating students toward defined objectives
- Personal record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), demonstrating that holding others to rigorous standards is consistent with your character, not performative
- Storytelling ability and stage presence sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
- History of converting disengaged or reluctant students into engaged contributors
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