Student Excellence Coach $150,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- On-site at Alpha School locations: New York City, NY · Orange County (Lake Forest), CA · San Francisco, CA · Santa Barbara, CA
- $150,000 annual salary, distributed weekly. Health benefits begin on day one.
- Relocation assistance provided
You've reached the top of a brutally competitive arena. Perhaps through elite athletics, graduation with honors from a premier university, employment at a highly selective organization, or a company you launched from scratch. You understand the distinction between mere participation and genuine competition. Now consider channeling that drive into a setting filled with K-12 students who have never encountered someone with your credentials ready to push them toward standards they never imagined achieving.
Alpha employs AI-driven 1:1 instruction, enabling students to complete core academics in roughly two hours daily. The remaining time supports life skills, passion projects, and authentic development. At Alpha's most demanding campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal accomplishments exemplify excellence: someone capable of assessing group dynamics, establishing expectations, and guiding them through resistance, distraction, and uncertainty.
Your role is not instructional; it centers on coaching, challenging, and maintaining the same rigorous standards you've applied to yourself. You'll dedicate 80% of your time to direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching along with life-skills facilitation. The remaining 20% involves establishing daily culture through purposeful kickoffs that create an environment where mediocrity has no place.
Growth in this position emphasizes depth over hierarchy. You begin by mastering Alpha's framework and earning student trust. Within months, you become the person they rely on to push beyond perceived limits. The payoff isn't a title change. It's witnessing a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a confident presentation to adults in May.
If you've sought a way to leverage your elite credentials beyond personal achievement, apply now. If you require a prescribed curriculum, a conventional classroom structure, or a route to administrative leadership, this isn't the right fit.
What you will be doing
- Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching that identifies specific obstacles, establishes challenging targets, and ensures students maintain accountability for execution
- Facilitating structured life-skills sessions designed for mastery rather than engagement, drawing on authentic examples from your own high-achievement background
- Evaluating student proficiency using platforms like Test2Pass and monitoring development through Coachbot analytics to refine coaching approaches dynamically
- Establishing campus-wide performance culture each morning via focused kickoffs that emphasize high-achievement expectations
- Cultivating trusted mentorship with students and families by maintaining elevated standards, reliability, and formalized motivation strategies
What you will NOT be doing
- Developing lesson plans, creating curriculum content, or evaluating assignments. Alpha's academic infrastructure manages those elements independently.
- Instructing large classroom groups of 30 students. Your focus is intensive coaching with small cohorts, not traditional teaching.
- Supervising other personnel or advancing through administrative ranks. This position prioritizes direct student influence, not management pathways.
- Attending faculty meetings or working through institutional red tape. Your schedule remains centered on student interaction.
- Compromising standards to achieve numerical targets. If a student reaches 99%, your task is determining what prevented 100%.
Key responsibilities
Deliver outstanding student motivation, development, and life-skill proficiency at Alpha's most demanding campuses.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- At least one demonstration of exceptional achievement in a highly competitive, internationally recognized field (examples: national or international competition medals, top-tier university with distinction, highly selective firm or fellowship, elite performing arts institution, or founding and scaling a successful venture)
- At least 3 years of experience in student coaching, youth mentoring, athletic coaching, or leadership positions where you demonstrably elevated others' performance
- Willingness to work in-person at an Alpha campus in New York City, NY; Orange County (Lake Forest), CA; San Francisco, CA; or Santa Barbara, CA
- Legal right to work in the United States
Nice to have
- History in elite competitive athletics (varsity D1, national team, or professional level) with coaching or mentoring experience for younger athletes
- Experience in high-pressure environments such as management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership
- Proven youth development record through mentoring outside academic contexts (community organizations, after-school programs, sports camps)
- Ease in presenting to and earning credibility with high-expectation families investing in premium private education
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