Academic Success Coach $150,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- On-site role at Alpha School campuses located in New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA; or Santa Barbara, CA
- Annual salary of $150,000, distributed weekly. Full health benefits begin on day one.
- Relocation assistance provided
You understand that the most compassionate act for a student is maintaining rigorous standards. Your background includes competition, achievement, or accomplishment at a level few experience firsthand: elite-level athletics, graduation with honors from a top university, acceptance into a highly selective organization, or launching a venture from the ground up. Picture channeling that drive into a space filled with K-12 students who have never encountered someone like you—someone committed to raising them to standards they didn't believe they could meet. If the concept of holding students to elite expectations feels unkind, this role isn't for you.
Alpha leverages AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction, enabling students to complete core academics in roughly two hours daily. The remainder of their time is devoted to life skills, passion projects, and meaningful development. At Alpha's most demanding campuses, students require more than oversight. They require 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 responsibility is not to instruct. It is to coach, challenge, and apply the same exacting standards you've maintained for yourself. Forty percent of your time involves direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching that identifies obstacles and establishes ambitious targets. Another forty percent is spent facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery, not engagement alone. The final twenty percent involves setting each day's tone: purposeful openings that cultivate a culture where mediocrity has no place.
The trajectory here emphasizes depth over advancement. You begin by mastering Alpha's methods and earning students' trust. Within a few months, you become the person they allow to push them beyond perceived limits. The reward isn't upward mobility. 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 background for impact beyond personal achievement, submit your application today.
What you will be doing
- Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching using Coachbot analytics and student performance data to identify obstacles, establish ambitious targets, and ensure student accountability
- Facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery, drawing on credible examples from your own elite achievements, and evaluating mastery via Alpha's Test2Pass framework
- Establishing campus-wide cultural standards each morning through purposeful kickoffs that reinforce high-performance norms
- Monitoring student advancement in real time and adapting coaching approaches based on data rather than intuition
- Cultivating trusted mentor relationships with students and their families through unwavering standards, reliability, and documented motivation strategies
What you will NOT be doing
- Creating lesson plans, developing curricula, or evaluating assignments (Alpha's academic system manages instruction; your focus is student motivation)
- Presenting lectures to classes of 30 students (your work centers on high-touch coaching with small groups, not mass instruction)
- Supervising other personnel or pursuing administrative advancement (this position prioritizes direct student impact over organizational hierarchy)
- Attending faculty meetings or dealing with institutional bureaucracy (your schedule remains student-centered)
- Compromising standards to achieve targets (if a student reaches 99%, your role is to identify what prevented 100%)
Key responsibilities
Drive outstanding student motivation, development, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's most rigorous campuses.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- At least one documented instance of exceptional achievement in a highly selective, internationally recognized field (examples: medals in 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 of 3 years' experience in student coaching, youth mentoring, athletic coaching, or leadership positions where you demonstrably improved others' performance
- Willingness 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
- History in elite competitive athletics (varsity Division 1, national team representation, or professional competition) with coaching or mentoring experience for younger athletes
- Professional experience in high-accountability fields such as management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership
- Proven youth development work through mentoring in settings outside traditional academics (community groups, after-school initiatives, sports camps)
- Confidence presenting to and establishing rapport with high-expectation families investing in premium private education
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