Early Childhood Educator

$120,000 USD/year ^{Pay is set based on global value, not the local market. Most roles = hourly rate x 40 hrs x 50 weeks}  ($60 USD/hour)

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-2 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other enduring skills, tailoring the playbook to 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 incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the trust you've established with each child.
• Delivering the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based assessment, for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who do not pass until mastery is achieved.
• Meeting kindergarteners at their developmental level with songs, stories, movement, and play while maintaining real, measurable expectations for first and second graders.
• Serving as the warm adult children are excited to see at arrival AND the adult who will not accept less than their best effort.

• Delivering whiteboard lectures. Academic content is housed in the applications, not delivered by you.
• Building curriculum from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook and you execute it with skill.
• Passively monitoring children on computers. Motivation here is intentional, individualized, and sustained.
• Reducing a weekly target so a child can meet it. If a student falls behind, the intervention focuses on the student, not the goal.
• Grading homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach. Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the rest does not exist in this model.

Ensure every student in your K-2 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year reporting they loved you.

• 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 assistance provided).
• Bachelor's degree in any field.
• At least 3 years of direct experience working 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 goal itself, your actions, and the result.
• Willingness to allow AI to deliver instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching.
• Willingness to maintain high expectations with students even when met with resistance.
• Legally authorized to work in the US without requiring visa sponsorship.

• Background in youth sports coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you held direct accountability for motivating young children toward defined goals.
• Personal track record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), reflecting a consistent pattern of holding others to demanding standards.
• Natural performer's energy with young children: the capacity to command a room of kindergarteners through voice, playfulness, and physicality.
• Demonstrated success converting shy or reluctant young children into confident, engaged participants.