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Description
- On-site position at an Alpha campus location: Dallas, TX · Oklahoma City, OK · Austin, TX · Keller (Fort Worth), TX · The Woodlands (Houston), TX
- $150,000 annual W2 salary with weekly pay. Health benefits begin day one.
- Relocation assistance provided
The greatest support you can offer a student who earned 99% is honest feedback that they fell short.
Not because perfection is the goal. Because believing in someone's capacity to improve is among the most respectful things you can do.
Traditional schools shield students from setbacks. Alpha equips them for achievement. We understand that confidence doesn't grow from reduced expectations. It develops when students accomplish what they previously believed impossible. This principle informs everything we do.
Our approach is intentionally distinct. Students achieve academic mastery independently through AI-powered platforms, which allows adults to concentrate on transformative work: coaching character development, fostering resilience, cultivating leadership, and instilling habits that produce exceptional results. We don't require adults to transmit information. We need leaders capable of unlocking human potential.
This position anchors that vision. You'll develop the Guides who interact directly with students, transforming them into outstanding coaches instead of traditional instructors. You'll facilitate life skills workshops that leave lasting impressions on students. You'll analyze performance data to pinpoint where students or Guides need support and coach them toward excellence. You'll also manage your own student cohort, embodying the standards you uphold for others.
The cascading impact is substantial. Each Guide you develop influences dozens of students. Every enhancement you make to campus culture multiplies across hundreds of young lives. Success isn't defined by meetings attended or documentation produced. It's measured by whether students grow more confident, disciplined, resilient, and capable through the culture you cultivate.
This role isn't designed for someone committed to maintaining conventional education structures. It's intended for someone who believes young people deserve more than obedience, attendance tracking, and mediocre standards. If you're motivated by coaching individuals through challenging situations, leveraging data to inform decisions, and maintaining elevated standards rooted in genuine belief in others' abilities, this environment will energize you.
Apply if you're prepared to establish a culture where excellence is the baseline, coaching transforms lives, and students realize capabilities they never imagined possible.
What you will be doing
- Develop and coach Guides to implement Alpha's coaching methodology with reliability, enthusiasm, and rigorous standards.
- Facilitate dynamic life skills workshops addressing communication, concentration, feedback reception, leadership development, and resilience for students in grades K-8 using established frameworks.
- Analyze student and Guide performance metrics to recognize coaching needs, eliminate obstacles, and produce quantifiable progress weekly.
- Conduct motivational sessions that empower each student to embrace challenging goals and consistently reach them.
- Oversee your own student cohort while demonstrating the coaching quality and accountability expected of all Guides.
What you will NOT be doing
- Instructing academic content. Students complete core academics autonomously using AI-powered educational tools.
- Creating lesson plans or developing curricular materials. Your focus is outstanding coaching, not producing instructional content.
- Controlling classrooms via lectures, worksheets, or behavioral management systems. Students direct their own learning journey, and you coach the behaviors that enable achievement.
- Reducing standards to sidestep challenging discussions. Elevated expectations and authentic confidence in student capability are inseparable.
- Defining success through actions rather than results. Outcomes take precedence over activity volume.
Key responsibilities
Establish a coaching environment where outstanding Guides reliably cultivate students who are enthusiastic about learning, achieve academic mastery ahead of schedule, and develop the resilience, leadership capabilities, and life competencies needed for long-term success beyond academics.
Candidate requirements
- Available to work on-site at a campus in Dallas, TX; Oklahoma City, OK; Austin, TX; Keller (Fort Worth), TX; or The Woodlands (Houston), TX (relocation support available).
- Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, Organizational Leadership, or related discipline.
Minimum 5 years leading adults in education, learning and development, youth leadership, coaching, or similar performance-focused environments. - Proven success managing teams of five or more individuals, including recruitment, coaching, performance management, and challenging accountability discussions.
- Direct experience working with children aged 5-14 in educational, developmental, athletic, or youth leadership contexts.
- Documented history of building, launching, scaling, or substantially enhancing a program, team, school, business, or initiative.
- Established ability to leverage performance data and metrics to identify issues, prioritize interventions, and generate measurable outcomes.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States.
Nice to have
- Master's degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or related field.
- Background in athletic coaching, outdoor or experiential education leadership, camp direction, youth program management, or other cohort-based organizations.
- Experience developing or managing innovative education models, EdTech initiatives, tutoring services, nonprofit programs, or learning systems beyond conventional classroom instruction.
- Record of outstanding personal achievement in academics, athletics, entrepreneurship, or leadership roles.
- Deep belief that education should produce capable, resilient, self-directed young people instead of merely transmitting academic material.
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