Leadership Development Coach $150,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- On-site role based at Alpha School campuses: New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA; or Santa Barbara, CA
- Annual compensation of $150,000, distributed weekly. Full health benefits start on day one.
- Relocation assistance provided
You understand that refusing to lower expectations is the most respectful thing you can do for a student. Your own record includes the kind of achievement most people only observe from the outside: national or international athletic performance, honors from a top university, acceptance into a highly competitive firm, or launching a venture from the ground up. Now consider channeling that drive into a space where K-12 students—many of whom have never encountered someone with your credentials—are pushed toward standards they didn't believe were within reach. If the idea of maintaining elite expectations with students strikes you as unreasonable, this role is not for you.
Alpha leverages AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction to allow students to complete core academic work in roughly two hours per day. The rest of their time is dedicated to life skills, self-directed projects, and meaningful personal development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than passive oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal track record establishes the benchmark: someone capable of assessing group dynamics, establishing norms, and guiding students through resistance, distraction, and uncertainty.
Your role is not instructional. It is to coach, challenge, and apply the same rigorous standards to students that you have applied to yourself. Forty percent of your time is spent in direct 1-on-1 and small-group sessions that identify barriers and establish stretch goals. Another forty percent involves facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for competence, not engagement for its own sake. The final twenty percent is dedicated to daily tone-setting: purposeful morning sessions that build a culture where mediocrity is unacceptable.
The trajectory here emphasizes depth over advancement. You begin by mastering Alpha's approach and earning trust with students. Within several months, you become the person they trust enough to allow you to push them beyond perceived limits. The payoff isn't upward mobility. It's witnessing a student who struggled with eye contact in September deliver a confident presentation to a room of adults in May.
If you have been seeking a way to leverage your elite experience beyond your own career advancement, submit your application now.
What you will be doing
- Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions supported by Coachbot analytics and student data to identify obstacles, establish ambitious targets, and ensure accountability for execution
- Facilitating structured life-skills workshops focused on mastery, drawing on authentic examples from your own high-level experience, and evaluating competence through Alpha's Test2Pass framework
- Establishing the cultural standard each morning via focused kickoff sessions that reinforce expectations for high performance across campus
- Monitoring student development in real time and refining coaching tactics based on evidence, not intuition
- Cultivating trusted relationships with students and their families by maintaining high standards, demonstrating consistency, and documenting motivation strategies
What you will NOT be doing
- Creating lesson plans, developing curriculum, or evaluating assignments (Alpha's academic system manages instruction; your focus is on student drive)
- Delivering lectures to groups of 30 students (your work centers on intensive coaching with individuals and small groups, not large-format teaching)
- Supervising other staff or pursuing administrative advancement (this position prioritizes direct impact on students, not organizational rank)
- Attending faculty meetings or dealing with institutional red tape (your schedule remains student-centered)
- Reducing expectations to meet targets (if a student achieves 99%, your task is to understand what prevented them from reaching 100%)
Key responsibilities
Lead outstanding student motivation, development, and life-skill competence at Alpha's most demanding campuses.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- At least one documented instance of extraordinary achievement in a highly competitive, internationally recognized field (examples include: medals from national or international competitions, honors 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)
- A minimum of 3 years of experience in student coaching, youth mentoring, athletic coaching, or leadership contexts where you demonstrably improved others' performance
- Availability to work on-site at an Alpha campus in New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA; or Santa Barbara, CA (relocation assistance available)
- Authorization to work legally in the United States
Nice to have
- Experience in elite competitive athletics (D1 varsity, national team, or professional level) combined with coaching or mentoring younger athletes
- Background in high-accountability fields such as management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership
- Proven experience in youth development through mentoring outside traditional academic contexts (community groups, after-school initiatives, sports camps)
- Confidence engaging with and earning trust from high-expectation families who invest in premium private education
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