Student Excellence Coach $150,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
Most roles = hourly rate x 40 hrs x 50 weeks
Description
You believe that refusing to lower the bar is the most compassionate thing you can do for a student. Your résumé includes competition, achievement, or building at a level most people only observe from a distance: elite-level athletics, graduation with distinction from a top-tier university, acceptance into a highly selective firm, or launching a venture from the ground up. Now imagine channeling that same intensity into a classroom of K-12 students who have never encountered someone with your credentials willing to push them toward standards they never imagined reaching. If the idea of holding students to elite expectations feels too demanding, this role is not for you.
Alpha leverages AI-powered 1-on-1 learning that allows students to complete core academics in roughly two hours per day. The remaining hours are dedicated to life skills, passion-driven projects, and meaningful personal development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than basic oversight. They need a credible mentor whose track record sets the example: someone capable of reading a room, establishing expectations, and coaching through resistance, distraction, and self-doubt.
Your role is not instructional. The AI manages academic content delivery. Your responsibility is to motivate, coach, and apply the same rigorous standards to students that you've applied to yourself. Forty percent of your time is spent in direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions that identify obstacles and establish ambitious targets. Another forty percent involves facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery rather than engagement. The final twenty percent is dedicated to morning kickoffs that set a tone where mediocrity is never acceptable.
The trajectory here prioritizes depth over advancement. You begin by mastering Alpha's systems and earning student trust. Within a few months, you become the individual students rely on to push them beyond their perceived limits. The payoff isn't a title change. It's continuity with the same students, year over year, with you as their constant advocate. It's observing a student who struggled with eye contact in September deliver a confident presentation to a room of adults in May.
This position remains focused on students. They are the purpose, not a career stepping stone. If your motivation to leave your current role is driven by mission rather than résumé enhancement, submit your application now.
What you will be doing
- Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions leveraging Coachbot analytics and student performance data to identify barriers, establish ambitious objectives, and enforce accountability for execution
- Facilitating structured life-skills workshops focused on mastery by drawing on credible examples from your own elite background, then evaluating student mastery through Alpha's Test2Pass framework
- Establishing the campus cultural standard each morning via focused kickoffs that reinforce expectations for high performance
- Monitoring student progress continuously and adapting coaching tactics based on data rather than intuition
- Developing trusted mentorship relationships with students and their families through unwavering standards, consistency, and documented motivation strategies
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering lessons, developing curriculum, or evaluating assignments — Alpha's AI-driven academic platform manages instruction; your focus is motivation
- Presenting to a classroom of 30 students (your work involves high-touch coaching in intimate groups, not large-scale instruction)
- Overseeing other staff or pursuing an administrative career path (this position centers on direct student outcomes, not organizational advancement)
- Attending faculty meetings or dealing with institutional red tape (your schedule remains student-centered)
- Compromising standards to meet benchmarks (if a student achieves 99%, your task is to identify what prevented 100%)
Key responsibilities
Lead outstanding student motivation, development, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's most demanding campuses.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- At least one documented instance of exceptional achievement within a highly selective, globally recognized field (examples include: medals from national or international competitions, graduation with distinction from a top-tier university, acceptance into a highly selective firm or fellowship, training at an elite performing arts institution, or founding and growing a successful venture)
- Minimum 3 years of experience in student coaching, youth mentorship, athletic coaching, or leadership contexts where you demonstrably improved others' performance
- Availability to work on-site at an Alpha campus located in Santa Barbara, CA; Santa Monica, CA; San Francisco, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; or Seattle, WA (relocation assistance available)
- Authorization to work legally in the United States
Nice to have
- History in elite competitive athletics (D1 varsity, national team, or professional level) combined with coaching or mentoring experience for younger athletes
- Professional background in high-accountability sectors such as management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership
- Demonstrated success in youth development through mentorship outside traditional academic contexts (community programs, after-school initiatives, sports camps)
- Confidence presenting to and earning the trust of high-expectation families investing in premium private school education
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