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Youth Program Director $100,000 USD/year
Description
- $100,000 annual W2 salary with weekly pay; full health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
- On-campus role 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 metro); or Toronto, Canada (relocation assistance available)
This is not a teaching position. This is a motivation role.
The most meaningful support you can offer a student who reached 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation creates discomfort, this role is not a fit. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a student's potential, continue reading.
At Alpha, academic learning occurs through AI-driven applications. No traditional lectures. No printed textbooks. Half of your day is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering topics like public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback. The remaining half involves working with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress via Coachbot data, and driving each one toward 100% completion of weekly app objectives. You will not follow a rigid script — workshops serve as a foundation, but top performers in this role customize them and create new sessions when needs arise.
A successful quarter means every student in your cohort completes their weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass for all life-skills workshops, and 90%+ report they love working with you. Falling short on any of these three measures means falling short of the role. In your first year you'll internalize the operational playbook; as you demonstrate your ability to uphold standards, advancement opportunities open to Lead Guide, where you mentor newer team members while continuing direct student engagement.
If you prefer conventional teaching methods, expect ready-made curriculum, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible, this position will not suit you. If you have experience as a sports coach, camp leader, tutor who held students accountable, or performer capable of captivating young audiences, the final step 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 cohorts on topics including public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational competencies, customizing the playbook and creating new sessions when you identify missing elements
- 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 individual relationships to overcome resistance
- Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill, and coaching students who fall short until they achieve mastery
- Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and physical activity to 8th graders needing candid conversation and accountability
- Serving as the adult who maintains high expectations and the adult students want to confide in; warmth creates the permission to challenge, and challenging demonstrates your confidence in their capacity
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering whiteboard lectures; academic instruction is embedded in the apps, not your direct teaching
- Creating curriculum from the ground up; you animate an established playbook with energy and narrative
- Passively monitoring students on computers; motivation in this context is active, individualized, and persistent
- 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 goal
- Evaluating homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; 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 in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting they loved working with 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 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (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 goal: the objective, your actions, and the result
- Comfort allowing AI to manage instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
- Daily use of generative AI platforms (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto location)
Nice to have
- Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp direction, theater, or after-school programming where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward defined outcomes
- Personal track record of exceptional achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that maintaining high standards for others reflects a consistent pattern rather than an adopted stance
- Storytelling ability and stage presence sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without escalating volume
- Demonstrated success converting disengaged or reluctant students into active, motivated participants
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