Youth Development Manager $150,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- Campus-based position at Alpha: Austin, TX · Dallas, TX · Fort Worth, TX · Oklahoma City, OK
- Annual W2 salary of $150,000, distributed weekly. Full health benefits begin on day one.
- Relocation assistance provided
Telling a student who earned 99% that they haven't yet passed is the most supportive feedback you can offer.
Not because perfection is the goal. Because believing in someone's capacity to improve is among the most profound forms of respect.
Traditional schools shield students from setbacks. Alpha equips them for achievement. We hold that true confidence emerges not from reduced expectations, but from guiding students to accomplish what they initially deemed impossible. This conviction informs every choice we make.
Our approach is intentionally distinct. Students progress through academics independently via AI-driven platforms, allowing adults to concentrate on transformative work: mentoring character development, cultivating resilience, fostering leadership capacity, and instilling habits that generate remarkable results. We don't require adults to transmit information. We seek leaders capable of unlocking human potential.
This position anchors that mission. You'll cultivate the Guides who engage directly with students, transforming them into outstanding coaches rather than conventional instructors. You'll facilitate life skills sessions that students carry with them for years. You'll analyze performance metrics to pinpoint where students or Guides need support and guide them back toward excellence. You'll simultaneously lead your own student group, demonstrating the same standards you uphold for others.
The impact multiplies exponentially. Each Guide you develop shapes dozens of students. Every enhancement you introduce to campus culture reverberates through hundreds of young lives. Achievement isn't defined by meeting attendance or documentation volume. It's defined by whether students grow more confident, disciplined, resilient, and capable through the environment you cultivated.
This role isn't designed for those seeking to maintain existing educational structures. It's for individuals who believe young people merit more than passive compliance, seat hours, and mediocre standards. If you draw energy from guiding others through challenging growth, leveraging data for informed decisions, and maintaining elevated expectations rooted in authentic belief, this environment will suit you.
Submit your application if you're prepared to establish a culture where excellence is the baseline, coaching transforms trajectories, and students realize capabilities that once seemed beyond reach.
What you will be doing
- Develop and mentor Guides to execute Alpha's coaching framework with reliability, enthusiasm, and exacting standards.
- Facilitate dynamic life skills sessions addressing communication, concentration, feedback reception, leadership development, and resilience for students in grades K-8 using established curricula.
- Analyze student and Guide performance metrics to surface coaching needs, eliminate obstacles, and generate quantifiable progress each week.
- Conduct motivational sessions empowering every student to embrace challenging goals and consistently reach them.
- Oversee your own student cohort while exemplifying the coaching quality and accountability you require from all Guides.
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering academic instruction. Students advance through core content autonomously using AI-enabled learning platforms.
- Developing lesson plans or designing educational materials. Your focus is outstanding coaching, not content creation.
- Controlling classrooms via lectures, printed exercises, or behavior management frameworks. Students direct their learning while you coach the practices that enable achievement.
- Reducing standards to sidestep challenging discussions. Rigorous expectations and sincere confidence in each student's capacity are inseparable.
- Defining success through busyness rather than impact. Outcomes take precedence over effort in isolation.
Key responsibilities
Establish a coaching environment where outstanding Guides reliably nurture students who thrive academically, progress at accelerated rates, and develop the resilience, leadership capability, and life competencies required for long-term success beyond school walls.
Candidate requirements
- Available to work on-site at campuses located in Austin, TX; Dallas, TX; Fort Worth, TX; or Oklahoma City, OK (relocation assistance available).
- Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, Organizational Leadership, or equivalent discipline.
- Minimum 5 years of professional experience in education, learning and development, coaching, youth leadership, or comparable area.
- Demonstrated leadership of a continuous team comprising five or more adults, holding primary or final authority for team selection and performance-driven termination choices.
- Consistent, ongoing accountability for the learning, conduct, motivation, or development of children aged 5-14 within educational, developmental, athletic, or youth leadership contexts.
- Documented history of establishing, launching, or substantially expanding a program, team, school, enterprise, or initiative from inception, beyond merely sustaining or inheriting existing operations.
- Confirmed capability to leverage performance data and metrics for problem diagnosis, action prioritization, and delivery of quantifiable outcomes.
- Openness to employment at a school that intentionally rejects conventional teaching methods.
- Legal authorization for employment in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship.
Nice to have
- Master's degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or related discipline.
- Background in athletic coaching, outdoor or experiential education leadership, camp direction, youth program management, or other cohort-focused organizations.
- Experience creating or managing innovative education initiatives, EdTech ventures, tutoring services, nonprofit programs, or learning models beyond conventional classroom instruction.
- Personal record of outstanding accomplishment in academics, athletics, entrepreneurial ventures, or leadership roles.
- Deep-seated belief that education should cultivate capable, resilient, self-directed young people rather than merely transmit academic material.
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