Head Coach $150,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- On-site location at an Alpha campus: Dallas, TX · Oklahoma City, OK · Austin, TX · Fort Worth, TX
- $150,000 annual W2 salary, distributed weekly. Full health benefits begin on day one.
- Relocation assistance provided
The most valuable feedback you can give a student who scored 99% is that they haven't yet passed.
Not because perfection is the goal. Because expressing belief in someone's capacity to improve is among the most respectful things you can do.
Most educational institutions shield students from failure. Alpha equips them for success. We hold that confidence doesn't emerge from lowering standards. It emerges when students accomplish what they previously believed was impossible. This principle informs every choice we make.
Our approach is intentionally unconventional. Students achieve academic mastery independently through AI-driven learning systems, which allows adults to concentrate on the work that transforms lives: coaching character, cultivating resilience, nurturing leadership, and establishing the habits that produce remarkable outcomes. We don't require adults to transmit content. We require leaders who understand how to unlock human potential.
This position anchors that mission. You'll develop the Guides who engage directly with students, helping them evolve into outstanding coaches rather than traditional classroom instructors. You'll facilitate life skills workshops that remain with students for years. You'll interpret performance data to pinpoint where students or Guides are underperforming and coach them toward excellence. You'll also maintain your own student cohort, ensuring you model the standards you enforce.
The cascading impact is substantial. Each Guide you develop influences dozens of students. Every enhancement you introduce to campus culture multiplies across hundreds of young lives. Success isn't defined by meeting attendance or report volume. It's defined by whether students grow more confident, disciplined, resilient, and capable because of the culture you cultivated.
This role isn't suited for someone seeking to maintain the existing education system. It's designed for someone who believes young people deserve more than compliance, seat time, and mediocre expectations. If you're motivated by coaching people through challenging obstacles, leveraging data to inform better decisions, and upholding rigorous standards because you authentically believe others can meet them, this role will suit you.
Apply if you're prepared to establish a culture where excellence is non-negotiable, coaching transforms lives, and students realize they're capable of achievements beyond their initial assumptions.
What you will be doing
- Develop and coach Guides to execute Alpha's coaching model with reliability, passion, and exacting standards.
- Facilitate dynamic life skills workshops addressing communication, concentration, feedback, leadership, and resilience for K-8 students using established playbooks.
- Analyze student and Guide performance metrics to surface coaching opportunities, eliminate obstacles, and produce measurable progress weekly.
- Conduct motivation sessions that empower every student to claim ownership of ambitious goals and reliably attain them.
- Lead your own student cohort while demonstrating the coaching quality and accountability you require from all Guides.
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering academic instruction. Students acquire core academics autonomously via AI-powered learning platforms.
- Creating lesson plans or developing curriculum. Your responsibility is outstanding coaching, not producing instructional content.
- Running classrooms through lectures, worksheets, or behavior management systems. Students direct their own learning, and you coach the habits that enable success.
- Reducing standards to sidestep challenging conversations. Elevated expectations and authentic belief in every student's capability are inseparable.
- Defining success by activity rather than outcomes. Impact matters more than effort in isolation.
Key responsibilities
Establish a coaching culture in which exceptional Guides reliably develop students who are enthusiastic about school, advance academically at an accelerated rate, and cultivate the resilience, leadership, and life skills necessary to thrive well beyond the classroom.
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 a comparable discipline.
Minimum 5 years of experience leading adults in education, learning and development, youth leadership, coaching, or a similar performance-oriented environment. - Proven track record managing a team of five or more individuals, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and challenging accountability discussions.
- Direct experience working with children ages 5-14 in an educational, developmental, athletic, or youth leadership context.
- Documented success building, launching, scaling, or substantially improving a program, team, school, business, or initiative.
- Confirmed capability to leverage performance metrics and data to identify issues, prioritize interventions, and achieve measurable outcomes.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States.
Nice to have
- Master's degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or a related discipline.
- Background coaching athletics, facilitating outdoor or experiential education, managing camps, youth programs, or similar cohort-based organizations.
- Experience creating or directing innovative education, EdTech, tutoring, nonprofit, or learning initiatives beyond conventional classroom instruction.
- Personal track record of outstanding achievement in academics, athletics, entrepreneurship, or leadership.
- Deep conviction that education should cultivate capable, resilient, independent young people rather than merely transmit academic material.
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