Youth Program Director $100,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- On-site at Alpha campuses in Denver, CO | Atlanta, GA | Nashville, TN | Fort Worth, TX | Houston, TX | Park City, UT
- $100,000 annual salary, distributed weekly. Full health, dental, and vision coverage begins day one
- Considering a move? Relocation assistance is available
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 principle unsettles you, this position is not the right fit. If it energizes you—because you understand that maintaining high standards demonstrates your confidence in a student's ability to meet them—continue reading.
Alpha operates differently from conventional schools. Students complete a full day's worth of academics in approximately two hours using adaptive software. No classroom lectures. No traditional textbooks. Your responsibility centers on what technology cannot provide: guiding young people through essential life skills including public speaking, sustained attention, and constructive feedback exchanges. You will facilitate interactive workshops, inspire students to exceed their learning targets, and cultivate relationships that transform a reserved fourth grader into someone who presents with confidence before an audience of adults.
This position grows over time. During your first year, you will guide a small student group and become proficient in Alpha's operational framework: life skills workshops, motivational coaching sessions, and mastery-based evaluation methods. Once you demonstrate the ability to hold every student accountable to 100% goal attainment while maintaining satisfaction ratings above 90%, advancement to Lead Guide becomes possible—a position where you mentor a team while remaining actively engaged with students. The most effective individuals in this role do more than transform individual trajectories; they influence how an entire campus functions.
You will not encounter this opportunity at a conventional school. If you have been working with young people through coaching, counseling, or mentoring and wish you could eliminate traditional instruction to focus entirely on personal development, this is your opportunity.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating one-hour life skills workshops for K-12 students covering subjects such as public speaking, concentration, time management, and constructive feedback practices (interactive and project-driven, never lecture-based)
- Conducting daily motivational check-ins where you engage individual students, assess their progress in adaptive learning platforms (utilizing Coachbot analytics), and challenge them to achieve 100% of their weekly targets
- Organizing and executing mastery-based evaluations (Test2Pass) to verify students have genuinely acquired each skill, not merely participated in activities
- Developing authentic connections with each student so they trust you sufficiently to receive guidance through resistance, distraction, and moments of self-doubt
- Monitoring student advancement against satisfaction metrics and goal completion data, modifying your methods when outcomes fall below expectations
What you will NOT be doing
- Presenting lectures to a classroom or providing conventional academic instruction (students acquire core subjects through self-directed adaptive applications, not through your teaching)
- Creating lesson plans from the ground up (Alpha supplies a life skills curriculum and implementation guides; your role is to animate them with enthusiasm and narrative skill)
- Handling parent communications or school administrative duties (Campus Leads manage those functions; you remain concentrated on your students)
- Evaluating homework assignments or overseeing standardized test preparation (neither exists in this environment)
- Operating independently (you belong to a campus team alongside Lead Guides, Campus Leads, and colleagues who exchange feedback and maintain mutual accountability)
Key responsibilities
Guarantee that every student in your cohort develops a genuine enthusiasm for school, achieves mastery of critical life skills, and completes 100% of their academic objectives through adaptive learning technology.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree in any field
- 3+ years of experience working directly with K-8 students (teaching, coaching, counseling, or youth program leadership)
- Willingness to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Denver, CO; Atlanta, GA; Nashville, TN; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City, UT (relocation support provided)
- Ability to attend a paid training program at Alpha's Austin, TX campus
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Experience in youth development: athletic coaching, camp leadership, or youth program work where you were directly responsible for motivating kids to hit specific goals
- Track record of high personal achievement (academic honors, competitive athletics, or leadership roles that required sustained excellence)
- Natural storytelling ability: you can hold a room of 12-year-olds' attention for an hour without raising your voice
- Experience motivating disengaged or resistant students and turning them into active participants
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