Youth Development Manager $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
- On-site at an Alpha campus: Atlanta, GA · Oklahoma City, OK · Tulsa, OK · Austin, TX · Keller (Fort Worth), TX · The Woodlands (Houston), TX
- $150,000/year W2 salary, paid weekly. Day-one health benefits.
- Relocation support available
If you believe telling a kid who scored 99% that they didn't pass is the most supportive thing you can do, keep reading. If that statement makes you uncomfortable, this role isn't for you.
Alpha students complete their academic learning in two hours daily through self-guided, AI-powered applications. There are no teachers, no lectures, and no classroom management of subject matter. This structure allows you to focus on what truly shifts student outcomes: facilitating high-energy workshops on public speaking, concentration, and feedback; driving students toward complete goal achievement using live analytics; and coaching the Guides you work alongside.
A typical morning might involve one-on-one coaching with a Guide, analyzing performance data to pinpoint where a cohort is underperforming. By midday, you're running a live student workshop, executing a playbook activity on how to give and receive feedback effectively. Your afternoons transition to motivation work: engaging with individual students, discovering their intrinsic drivers, and applying Alpha's incentive framework to re-engage a reluctant 7th grader. You manage your own cohort directly, keeping your skills current in the same areas you're coaching others to master.
You're likely the outlier in traditional education: overly data-focused, excessively results-oriented, too comfortable challenging conventional approaches with young people. Alpha may be the first environment where you truly belong. You'll begin coaching other Guides immediately, and as you produce results at scale, your impact on campus-wide program quality expands.
Maintain the standard. Transform the student. Apply now.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating one-hour live workshops on life skills (public speaking, concentration, giving and receiving feedback) for K-8 (elementary and middle school) cohorts, executing Alpha's playbook rather than creating content independently
- Conducting motivation sessions leveraging student analytics and Alpha's incentive framework (school currency, leaderboards) to achieve 100% student goal completion
- Coaching Guides on program adherence and standards enforcement, ensuring every session generates concrete improvement actions
- Managing your own student cohort while simultaneously developing other Guides
- Monitoring student satisfaction scores, goal completion rates, and Guide performance metrics on a weekly basis to identify underperformance before it escalates
What you will NOT be doing
- Teaching or tutoring students on academic content. Students complete learning through self-guided apps without adult presence in the room.
- Creating curriculum or developing lesson plans independently. The playbook is established; the expectation is faithful execution, not innovation.
- Coaching Guides on instructional methodology. Guides don't instruct, so you're coaching energy, motivation, and accountability practices instead.
- Accepting 99% when the standard is 100%. Upholding the standard demonstrates your belief in their capacity to reach it.
- Serving as the "empathy default" that exists in every school. Students receive connection here, along with direct feedback and meaningful consequences.
Key responsibilities
Deliver Alpha's three commitments to every student in your cohort: they love school, learn at twice the pace of traditional classrooms, and build authentic life skills.
Candidate requirements
- Willing to work on-campus in Atlanta, GA; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Austin, TX; Keller (Fort Worth), TX; The Woodlands (Houston), TX (relocation support provided)
- Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in education, learning and development, coaching, youth leadership, or a comparable field
- Track record of leading a team of 5 or more adults, including hiring and making performance-based termination decisions
- Direct experience working with kids aged 5-14 in an educational or developmental setting
- Built, launched, or significantly grew a program, team, business, school, or initiative from the ground up
- Proven use of data and metrics to set weekly goals and drive decisions, not just report results
- Legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada
Nice to have
- Master's degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or a related field
- Coached athletics, led wilderness or experiential programs, directed camps, or ran youth ministry at a scale requiring cohort management and outcome measurement
- Transitioned from classroom teaching to program building or operational roles: EdTech, tutoring businesses, youth nonprofits, or school intervention teams
- Early-career history of exceptional personal performance — academic, athletic, or professional — prior to entering leadership
- Conviction that the current education system is fundamentally broken and personal commitment to rebuilding it
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