Lead Instructional Coach, Alpha - $200,000/year USD

Overview In-person locations: Beverly Hills, CA; La Jolla (San Diego), CA; Piedmont, CA; South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Boston, MA; Bethesda, MD; Raleigh, NC; New York City, NY; Seattle, WA (relocation assistance available) Salary: $200,000 annual, paid weekly. Health, dental, and vision benefits begin day one. What You Will Be Doing Facilitating one-hour live sessions focused on life skills and social-emotional learning (SEL) for K-8 students, covering areas such as public speaking and concentration, using Alpha's established framework Conducting daily motivation sessions designed to ensure 100% of students reach their weekly application targets through age-appropriate motivators including school currency systems and leaderboards Developing Guides via observation, specific feedback, and direct training so they execute sessions with equivalent energy and accuracy Analyzing Coachbot data and individual student records to determine intervention needs, then conducting those interventions yourself Directly mentoring your assigned student cohort, demonstrating the coaching and motivational techniques you require from all Guides What You Won’t Be Doing Creating lesson plans or curriculum design. Students engage with adaptive applications; your responsibility is elevating the people supporting them. Delivering traditional classroom lectures. Your role is 80% engagement specialist, 20% content expert; if you prefer working at a whiteboard, this is not the right fit. Compromising standards due to external pressure from parents or school administrators. When a student achieves 99%, the response remains not yet — and you will be supported in maintaining that standard. Spending your time in an office handling administrative tasks. The majority of your day involves direct interaction with students and Guides. Waiting extended periods for performance evaluations. Data appears live in Coachbot and adjustments occur immediately. Lead Instructional Coach Key Responsibilities Execute Alpha's 3 Promises for both your student cohort and the Guides under your leadership: every student develops genuine love for school, achieves learning at 2x standard pace, and acquires authentic life skills. Basic Requirements Currently located in or willing to relocate to Beverly Hills, CA; La Jolla (San Diego), CA; Piedmont, CA; South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Boston, MA; Bethesda, MD; Raleigh, NC; New York City, NY; Seattle, WA (relocation assistance available) Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or related discipline (Master's preferred; traditional teaching certifications are not required) Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in education, learning and development, coaching, or comparable field Demonstrated experience creating and executing educational programs, curricula, or training systems Proven history of managing a team of 5 or more individuals, including responsibility for hiring and performance-based termination decisions Experience providing coaching, mentorship, or constructive feedback to enhance engagement and performance outcomes Background working with children ages 5–14 in educational or developmental contexts Competence using data and performance metrics to inform decisions and drive ongoing improvement Legal authorization to work in the United States Nice-to-have Requirements Master's degree in Education, Psychology, or Business Experience as an athletic coach, camp director, or youth program coordinator where you directly motivated children toward quantifiable goals Background coaching adults in environments where performance was measured and evaluated Confidence presenting to large groups of children. The type of presence that commands attention in a room full of 8-year-olds. About Alpha Alpha School is on a mission to reshape education with a bold approach that harnesses AI to accelerate learning and unleash student potential. Alpha aims to create a new paradigm where students master core academics in just two hours a day, freeing up time for hands-on, passion-driven learning that prepares them for the real world. Working with us This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $100 USD/hour, which equates to $200,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. For more details, see Additional job code reference: LJ-5628-US-Denver-LeadInstructio.018 #J-18808-Ljbffr Crossover