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Youth Development Coach $120,000 USD/year
Description
- $120,000 annual W2 salary paid weekly; health, dental, and vision benefits begin day one
- On-site position at an Alpha campus in one of 13 US locations across CA, CT, FL, IL, and MA (complete list provided below; relocation assistance available)
AI technology can teach a six-year-old to read. It cannot inspire her to care. Bridging that gap is your responsibility.
Alpha students in grades K-2 complete academic learning through AI-powered applications in two hours each day. No traditional lectures. No printed worksheets. You will spend half your time facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops focused on public speaking, concentration, and feedback exchange. A structured playbook guides you, but top performers customize it for their group and create new activities when needed. The remaining half of your day involves sitting with students individually or in small groups, analyzing Coachbot data, and coaching each child toward 100% completion of weekly app targets. Building trust gives you the authority to set high expectations. High expectations demonstrate your belief in their potential.
Success in a quarter means every student completes their weekly app objectives, passes the Test2Pass for all life-skills workshops, and 90%+ report loving you. Falling short on any of these three metrics means the job was not done. During your first year, you master the playbook; after proving you can maintain standards, advancement to Lead Guide becomes possible, where you mentor new hires while continuing to lead your own cohort.
This role is not for you if you prefer traditional teaching methods, expect fully prescribed curriculum, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible. If your background includes thriving as an early-elementary teacher who excelled during circle time, working as a camp counselor with young children, coaching youth sports, or performing in children's theater, the final step before receiving an offer is a shadow day coaching actual Alpha students. Submit your application today.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-2 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, customizing the playbook for your group rather than following it verbatim.
- Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching sessions that maintain every student's progress toward weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's motivational tools (school currency, leaderboards), and your individual relationships with each child.
- Delivering the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based evaluation, for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who do not achieve mastery until they do.
- Engaging kindergarteners at their developmental level with songs, storytelling, movement, and playfulness while maintaining rigorous, quantifiable standards for first and second graders.
- Serving as the caring adult children are excited to see at morning drop-off AND the adult who consistently refuses to accept mediocrity.
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering whiteboard lectures. Academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you.
- Creating curriculum from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook and you execute it with energy.
- Passively monitoring children at computer stations. Motivation in this environment is hands-on, individualized, and persistent.
- Reducing a weekly target so a child can meet it. When a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the goal.
- Evaluating homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent correspondence. Campus Leads manage parent interactions, and the other tasks do not exist in this model.
Key responsibilities
Guarantee that every student in your K-2 cohort completes their weekly learning objectives, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting they loved you.
Candidate requirements
- Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, Miami, or Miami Beach, FL; Chicago, IL; or Boston, MA (relocation support provided).
- Bachelor's degree in any subject.
- At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4 to 7 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership).
- A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a young child toward a challenging goal: the objective, your actions, and the result.
- Willingness to allow AI to manage instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching.
- Willingness to maintain high standards with students even when they resist.
- Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship.
Nice to have
- Background in youth sports coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating young children toward defined objectives.
- Personal record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), reflecting a consistent commitment to holding others to demanding standards rather than adopting it as a stance.
- Natural performer's instinct with young children: the capacity to command a room of kindergarteners using voice, humor, and physical energy.
- Proven ability to transform shy or reluctant young children into confident, engaged participants.
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