Associate, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

$100,000 annual W2 salary with weekly pay; comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage from day one On‑campus role at an Alpha K‑8 school in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston (Central, South, or The Woodlands), TX; Park City, UT (Salt Lake City region) - relocation assistance available This is not a teaching position. This is a motivational role. The most meaningful way to support a student who reached 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation makes you uneasy, this role isn't for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high expectations is how you demonstrate belief in a student's ability, read on. At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI‑driven applications. No traditional lectures. No textbooks. Half of your day is spent facilitating one‑hour life‑skills workshops covering public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback exchange. The remaining half involves working with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress via Coachbot analytics, and driving each one toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets. You won't be following a rigid script — workshops provide a framework, but the most effective Associates adapt them and create new ones when needs arise. A successful quarter means every student in your cohort completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for all life‑skills workshops, and 90%+ report they love working with you. Falling short on any of these three metrics means the role isn't being fulfilled. Your first year focuses on mastering the operational playbook; once you demonstrate the ability to maintain standards, advancement to Lead Guide becomes available, where you mentor new hires while continuing direct student work. If you're drawn to conventional teaching, prefer ready‑made curricula, or view warmth and rigorous standards as incompatible, this position won't be a fit. If you've worked as a sports coach, camp counselor, tutor who wouldn't let a student give up, or performer capable of captivating a room of eight‑year‑olds, the final hiring step is a full day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that's the part that excites you most, submit your application today. What You Will Be Doing Facilitating one‑hour life‑skills workshops for K‑8 cohorts addressing public speaking, focus, feedback, and other enduring competencies, modifying the playbook and creating new sessions when you identify a need Conducting daily individual and small‑group motivation sessions that drive every student to 100% completion of their weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (campus currency, leaderboards), and your individual relationship with each student to overcome resistance Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery‑based evaluation) for each life skill, then coaching students who don't pass until they achieve mastery Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and physical activity to 8th graders needing direct conversation and accountability Serving as the adult who maintains high expectations and the adults students trust and want to confide in; warmth establishes your credibility to challenge, and challenging demonstrates your confidence in their potential What You Won’t Be Doing Delivering whiteboard lectures; academic content is embedded in the apps, not delivered by you Creating curriculum from the ground up; you activate an established playbook through energy and narrative Passively monitoring students at computers; motivation in this context is active, individualized, and persistent Reducing a weekly target to help a student achieve it; when a student falls behind, the solution involves the student, not the goal Assessing homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent communications; Campus Leads manage parent‑facing responsibilities, and the other tasks don't exist in this model Associate Key Responsibilities Guarantee that every student in your K‑8 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year reporting they loved working with you. Basic Requirements Available to work on‑site at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX (Central, South, or The Woodlands); Park City, UT - relocation assistance provided Bachelor's degree in any field Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with K‑8 students (classroom instruction, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership) A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a K‑8 student toward a challenging goal: the objective, your actions, and the result Comfort allowing AI to manage instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life‑skills coaching Regular use of generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude) Authorization to work in the US without visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto campus) Nice‑to‑have Requirements Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after‑school programming where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward defined objectives Personal track record of exceptional achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that maintaining high standards for others reflects a consistent pattern rather than an adopted stance Narrative ability and stage presence sufficient to engage a room of 12‑year‑olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice Demonstrated success converting disengaged or resistant students into engaged contributors 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 is creating a new paradigm where students master core academics in just two hours a day, freeing up time for hands‑on, passion‑driven learning that truly 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 $50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. #J-18808-Ljbffr Crossover