Description
- On-site at an Alpha campus in Austin, TX or Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ — relocation assistance available
- $150,000/year
- Full-time
Traditional elementary schools reduce expectations when children face difficulty. Your approach is the opposite. You hold the conviction that six-year-olds possess far greater capability than conventional classrooms demand, and you have used measurable outcomes to validate this belief repeatedly.
Alpha operates on a two-hour learning framework. Adaptive software handles morning academic instruction, freeing your schedule for the interventions that truly transform a child's trajectory: motivation, life skills, direct coaching, and accountability. You take personal ownership of a K-3 student cohort while simultaneously coaching the Guides (Alpha's designation for the adults who mentor and challenge the students) accountable for their day-to-day development. Your work remains hands-on daily, not conducted remotely from an administrative office.
Your typical day alternates among three core activities. You analyze performance metrics and Coachbot analytics to identify students and Guides falling behind target. You conduct coaching sessions that equip individuals with concrete next actions rather than generic affirmation. And you command the focus of a room filled with five- to nine-year-olds during workshops addressing public speaking, concentration, or the art of giving and receiving feedback.
When you identify effective methods, you document them. The playbooks you create set the benchmark that all other Guides replicate, expanding your influence from a single cohort across the entire grade level. Demonstrating your ability to scale this level of excellence defines your path to greater leadership responsibility here.
If you view lowering standards as compassion, this role will not suit you. If you see raising them as a form of respect, submit your application.
What you will be doing
- Coaching both Guides and students through performance data review, direct classroom observation, and explicit feedback, then enforcing accountability to quantifiable objectives
- Leading one-hour live workshops for K-3 students covering life skills including public speaking, concentration, teamwork, resilience, accountability, and the exchange of feedback
- Conducting individual and small-group sessions that link each child's personal goals and passions to tangible academic advancement
- Developing and iterating playbooks that codify your most effective practices into systems other Guides can replicate reliably
- Training Guides on these playbooks and demonstrating facilitation excellence to maintain standards as the team expands
What you will NOT be doing
- Providing academic instruction or presenting lectures from the front of a classroom; adaptive software delivers content while you coach individuals
- Reducing expectations in response to student difficulty
- Overseeing operations remotely as instructional coaches and principals typically do; you remain embedded daily with your assigned cohort
- Managing the full campus budget, operational logistics, and parent communications; a Campus Lead handles those responsibilities so you can concentrate on student and Guide performance
- Advocating for traditional pedagogical approaches or implementing a standard K-12 curriculum
Key responsibilities
Fulfill Alpha's three commitments to every K-3 student: they develop a love for school, achieve learning at twice the conventional pace, and cultivate outstanding life skills and self-reliance.
Candidate requirements
- Available to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Austin, TX or Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; relocation assistance is available
- Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, Organizational Leadership, Child Development, or a related discipline
- Minimum of 5 years of experience working with elementary-aged children (approximately ages 5 to 9)
- Proven experience leading a team of 5 or more individuals, with authority to make hiring and performance-based termination decisions
- Demonstrated experience building, initiating, or substantially expanding a program, team, school, or initiative from inception, rather than assuming control of an established operation
- Comfortable operating in an educational environment that rejects conventional teaching methodologies
- Legal authorization to work in the United States
Nice to have
- Master's degree in a relevant field
- Demonstrated history leveraging metrics, dashboards, or analytics to identify challenges and produce quantifiable progress
- Experience coaching or supervising other adults toward measurable results, rather than exclusively executing tasks independently
- Experience in youth development, camp leadership, competitive athletics coaching, tutoring, or enrichment programs where motivation played a central role
- Proven ability and confidence facilitating sessions or presenting to rooms of young children
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