Leadership Coach $150,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- Campus-based position in Dallas, TX · Oklahoma City, OK · Austin, TX · Fort Worth, TX
- $150,000 annual W2 compensation, distributed weekly. Full health benefits effective immediately.
- Relocation assistance provided
The most respectful thing you can tell a student who scored 99% is that it's not yet passing.
Not because perfection is the goal. Because communicating your belief that someone is capable of more is among the highest forms of respect.
Traditional schools shield students from setbacks. Alpha equips them for achievement. We understand that confidence doesn't emerge from reduced expectations. It develops when students accomplish what they previously believed impossible. This principle informs everything we do.
Our approach is intentionally unconventional. Students advance through academics autonomously via AI-enabled platforms, allowing adults to concentrate on what truly transforms outcomes: character coaching, resilience training, leadership development, and instilling the behaviors that drive exceptional performance. We don't require adults to transmit information. We need leaders capable of unlocking potential in others.
This position anchors that purpose. You'll cultivate the Guides who engage students directly, transforming them into outstanding coaches instead of traditional instructors. You'll facilitate life skills sessions that leave lasting impressions on students. You'll analyze performance metrics to pinpoint where students or Guides need support and coach them toward excellence. You'll simultaneously lead your own student group, demonstrating the standards you require from others.
The multiplier effect is substantial. Each Guide you develop impacts dozens of students. Every enhancement you introduce to campus culture scales across hundreds of young people. Success isn't defined by meeting attendance or documentation output. It's determined by whether students grow more confident, disciplined, resilient, and competent because of the environment you cultivated.
This role isn't designed for someone committed to maintaining conventional schooling. It's for someone convinced that young people deserve better than conformity, attendance tracking, and mediocre standards. If you're motivated by coaching individuals through challenging growth, leveraging data for strategic decisions, and maintaining elevated expectations because you authentically believe in others' capacity, this environment will suit you.
Apply if you're prepared to establish a culture where excellence is baseline, coaching transforms trajectories, and students realize capabilities beyond what they previously imagined.
What you will be doing
- Develop and coach Guides to execute Alpha's coaching methodology with reliability, enthusiasm, and rigorous standards.
- Facilitate compelling life skills sessions addressing communication, concentration, feedback reception, leadership principles, and resilience for students in grades K-8 using established frameworks.
- Analyze student and Guide performance metrics to surface coaching needs, eliminate obstacles, and produce quantifiable improvements weekly.
- Conduct motivational sessions that empower each student to embrace challenging objectives and consistently reach them.
- Continue leading your own student cohort while exemplifying the coaching quality and accountability expected from all Guides.
What you will NOT be doing
- Instructing academic content. Students progress through core subjects independently via AI-powered educational platforms.
- Developing lesson plans or curriculum materials. Your focus is superior coaching, not producing instructional content.
- Controlling classrooms through lectures, printed assignments, or behavioral management systems. Students direct their learning, and you coach the practices that enable achievement.
- Reducing standards to sidestep challenging feedback conversations. Elevated expectations and authentic confidence in student potential are inseparable.
- Defining success through volume of activity rather than impact. Outcomes take precedence over effort in isolation.
Key responsibilities
Establish a coaching-centered environment where outstanding Guides reliably cultivate students who are enthusiastic about school, advance academically at accelerated rates, and develop the resilience, leadership capabilities, and life competencies to thrive well beyond their school years.
Candidate requirements
- Available to work on-site in Dallas, TX; Oklahoma City, OK; Austin, TX; or Fort Worth, TX (relocation assistance available).
- Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, Organizational Leadership, or comparable discipline.
- Minimum 5 years of professional experience in education, learning and development, coaching, youth leadership, or related domain.
- Demonstrated experience leading a continuous team of five or more adults, holding primary or final authority over team member selection and performance-related termination decisions.
- Consistent, ongoing responsibility for the learning, behavior, motivation, or development of children aged 5-14 within educational, developmental, athletic, or youth leadership contexts.
- Documented history of creating, launching, or substantially expanding a program, team, school, business, or initiative from inception, as opposed to merely sustaining or inheriting existing operations.
- Confirmed capability to leverage performance data and metrics to identify issues, prioritize initiatives, and achieve quantifiable outcomes.
- Commitment to working in an educational environment that intentionally diverges from conventional teaching methods.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without requirement for visa sponsorship.
Nice to have
- Master's degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or related discipline.
- Background in athletic coaching, outdoor or experiential education leadership, camp direction, youth programming, or other group-based youth organizations.
- Experience creating or managing innovative educational initiatives, EdTech ventures, tutoring services, nonprofit programs, or learning platforms beyond traditional classroom instruction.
- Demonstrated record of outstanding personal achievement in academics, athletics, entrepreneurship, or leadership roles.
- Deeply held belief that education should cultivate capable, resilient, self-directed young individuals rather than merely transmitting academic material.
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