Student Success Coach $120,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Student Success Coach $120,000 USD/year
Description
The curriculum is already designed. The AI already handles instruction. Your role is to help a child realize they're capable of something they once believed impossible.
Alpha students finish their academic coursework in only two hours per day through adaptive learning technology. This structure allows Guides to concentrate on transformative work: cultivating confidence, resilience, communication skills, and the drive to embrace difficult challenges. Your day won't involve standing at the front delivering content. Instead, you'll coach students through obstacles, recognize their progress, and demonstrate what rigorous standards look like when combined with authentic support.
You'll oversee one K-3 cohort band—Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd grade. Half your time is dedicated to facilitating dynamic, one-hour workshops focused on life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and receiving feedback. The remaining half involves coaching students individually and in small groups, leveraging learning analytics to ensure every child progresses toward ambitious weekly targets. Every moment counts. Students should exit your workshops more skilled than when they entered and finish your coaching sessions convinced they can accomplish more than they previously imagined.
This position isn't suited for someone seeking to implement curriculum or oversee a traditional classroom. It's designed for someone who enjoys motivating young children, excels with measurable results, and trusts that the right coach can alter a child's path. If you've energized kids as a teacher, coach, camp counselor, youth mentor, or performer, you'll discover a distinctly different educational environment here.
This is a full-time, on-site position at one of Alpha's campuses. We recruit nationally, so job boards may list this opportunity in nearby cities without a campus.
Current openings are available in La Jolla (San Diego), Orange County (Lake Forest), Los Angeles (South Bay, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Malibu), San Francisco Bay Area (San Francisco, Palo Alto, Piedmont), Greenwich, CT, Boca Raton, Miami, Miami Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Chicago, Boston, New York City, and Kirkland (Seattle area).
If you're interested in another Alpha campus, apply anyway and tell us your preferred location—we'll consider you for the appropriate opening.
What you will be doing
- Facilitate engaging life-skills workshops that guide K-3 students in developing communication, focus, feedback, and other enduring competencies through active involvement rather than passive listening.
- Provide one-on-one and small-group coaching to students, utilizing Coachbot analytics, validated motivation frameworks, and meaningful relationships to ensure every child remains on pace for ambitious weekly learning objectives.
- Evaluate life-skill proficiency using Alpha's Test2Pass framework, coaching students until they exhibit genuine mastery—not merely attendance.
- Adjust your coaching approach to match the developmental stage of your cohort, incorporating songs, movement, and narrative for younger students or emphasizing greater independence and responsibility for older learners.
- Cultivate relationships where students feel sufficiently supported to push beyond their perceived limitations.
What you will NOT be doing
- Presenting academic lessons at a whiteboard. Students complete academic work through adaptive software.
- Creating curriculum from the ground up. You'll refine and customize proven playbooks rather than designing lessons.
- Observing students work quietly on computers. Your function is active coaching, encouragement, and engagement.
- Reducing expectations when students face difficulties. Success comes from supporting students to meet the standard, not adjusting the standard downward.
- Overseeing homework, grading assignments, or managing routine parent communication.
Key responsibilities
Develop a cohort of K-3 students who are enthusiastic about attending school, reliably reach ambitious learning goals, and acquire the life skills that equip them to succeed well beyond elementary school.
Candidate requirements
- Willing to work on-site at one of Alpha's campuses. Current openings are available in La Jolla (San Diego); Orange County (Lake Forest); Los Angeles (South Bay, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Malibu); San Francisco Bay Area (San Francisco, Palo Alto, Piedmont); Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton; Miami; Miami Beach; Palm Beach Gardens; Chicago; Boston; New York City; and Kirkland (Seattle area). Relocation assistance is available.
- Bachelor's degree in any subject.
- At least 3 years of experience working directly with children ages 4-9 through teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, or similar environments.
- A track record of motivating young children to achieve challenging goals, with specific examples of your impact.
- Comfort using AI-powered learning while focusing your own energy on coaching, motivation, and life-skill development.
- The ability to balance warmth with unwavering expectations.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.
Nice to have
- Experience in youth sports, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori, progressive education, or high-engagement after-school programs.
- Personal experience achieving ambitious goals in academics, athletics, or your career.
- Outstanding storytelling or performance skills that naturally capture the attention of young children.
- Evidence of helping reluctant or shy children become confident, engaged participants.
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