Early Childhood Educator $120,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Early Childhood Educator $120,000 USD/year
Description
The curriculum is already designed. The AI already handles the instruction. Your role is to help a child discover they're capable of something they never thought they could do.
At Alpha, academic work is completed in just two hours daily through adaptive learning technology. This structure allows Guides to dedicate their energy to the work that transforms lives: cultivating confidence, resilience, communication skills, and the drive to embrace difficult challenges. You won't be standing at the front of a room delivering lessons. Instead, you'll be coaching students through obstacles, recognizing victories, and demonstrating what rigorous standards look like when combined with authentic belief in their potential.
You'll guide one K-3 cohort band—either Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd grade. Half your time is devoted to facilitating dynamic, one-hour workshops focused on life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and constructive 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 emerge from 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 designed for someone seeking to deliver prescribed curriculum or oversee a traditional classroom. It's intended for someone who finds joy in motivating young learners, excels with measurable results, and believes the right mentor can alter a child's path. If you've energized children as an educator, coach, camp counselor, youth mentor, or performer, you'll discover a fundamentally different kind of learning environment here.
This is a full-time, on-site position at one of Alpha's campuses. We recruit nationally, so job boards may display this opportunity in nearby cities that do not have 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 interactive life-skills workshops that guide K-3 students toward mastery of communication, concentration, feedback, and other enduring skills through hands-on engagement rather than passive instruction.
- Provide individualized and small-group coaching, utilizing Coachbot analytics, established motivation frameworks, and meaningful relationships to ensure every child advances toward ambitious weekly learning targets.
- Evaluate life-skill proficiency using Alpha's Test2Pass framework, continuing to coach students until they show genuine comprehension—not merely attendance.
- Tailor your coaching approach to match the developmental stage of your cohort, whether that involves songs, physical activity, and narrative techniques for younger children or increased autonomy and responsibility for older students.
- Establish relationships where students feel empowered enough to push beyond the limits of what they believed they could accomplish.
What you will NOT be doing
- Presenting academic lessons at a whiteboard. Students complete academics using adaptive software.
- Creating curriculum from the ground up. You'll refine and customize proven playbooks rather than designing lessons from scratch.
- Observing students as they silently work on computers. Your role centers on active coaching, encouragement, and personal connection.
- Reducing standards when students face difficulties. Progress is achieved by supporting students to meet the goal, not by adjusting the goal downward.
- Overseeing homework, grading assignments, or managing routine parent communication.
Key responsibilities
Develop a cohort of K-3 students who are excited to attend school, reliably meet ambitious learning targets, and acquire the life skills that equip them to flourish 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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