Strategic Performance 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 immediately.
- Relocation assistance provided
You've reached the top of an intensely competitive arena. Perhaps elite sports, a distinguished record at a premier university, tenure at a highly selective organization, or a venture you launched and grew independently. You understand the gap between participation and real competition. Consider channeling that drive into a space filled with K-12 students who've never encountered someone with your credentials, ready to guide them toward standards they never imagined reaching.
Alpha employs AI-driven 1:1 instruction, enabling students to complete core academics in roughly two hours daily. The remaining time is dedicated to life skills, passion projects, and meaningful development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal accomplishments define excellence: someone capable of assessing group dynamics, establishing expectations, and guiding them through resistance, distraction, and uncertainty.
Your role is not instructional; it's about coaching, challenging, and maintaining the same exacting standards you've applied to yourself. You'll dedicate 80% of your time to direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching alongside life-skills workshops. The remaining 20% involves establishing daily tone: purposeful morning sessions that build a culture rejecting mediocrity.
This trajectory isn't about advancing into management. It's about mastery. You begin by absorbing Alpha's framework and earning student trust. Within months, you become the person they trust to push them beyond perceived limits. The payoff isn't a title. 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, submit your application now. If you require scripted lesson plans, conventional classroom settings, or a route to administrative positions, this isn't the right fit.
What you will be doing
- Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching that identifies individual obstacles, establishes ambitious targets, and ensures student accountability for execution
- Facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for skill acquisition, not engagement alone, drawing on authentic stories from your elite background
- Evaluating student proficiency using platforms like Test2Pass and monitoring progress through Coachbot analytics to refine coaching approaches dynamically
- Establishing the cultural standard each morning with focused kickoffs that reinforce high-performance principles campus-wide
- Cultivating trusted mentor relationships with students and families through unwavering standards, reliability, and documented motivational frameworks
What you will NOT be doing
- Drafting lesson plans, creating curriculum, or evaluating assignments. Alpha's instructional system manages that independently.
- Addressing a full classroom of 30 students. Your work centers on intensive coaching in intimate groups, not mass instruction.
- Supervising other personnel or pursuing an administrative career path. This position prioritizes direct student influence, not organizational advancement.
- Attending faculty meetings or navigating institutional bureaucracy. Your focus remains on student interaction.
- Compromising standards to meet quotas. If a student achieves 99%, your task is identifying 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 documented instance of exceptional achievement in a highly selective, internationally recognized field (examples: national or international competitive medals, distinguished record at a top-tier university, tenure at a highly selective firm or fellowship, elite performing arts institution, or founding and growing a successful venture)
- Minimum 3 years of experience in student coaching, youth mentoring, athletic coaching, or leadership positions where you demonstrably elevated others' performance
- Availability to work on-site at an Alpha campus in New York City, NY; Orange County (Lake Forest), CA; San Francisco, CA; or Santa Barbara, CA
- Authorization to work legally 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
- Background in high-accountability sectors such as management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership
- Demonstrated youth development through mentorship in non-academic contexts (community organizations, after-school initiatives, sports camps)
- Confidence presenting to and establishing rapport with high-expectation families investing in premium private education
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