Coach

This is not a teaching position. This is a motivation role.

The most meaningful action you can take for a student who reaches 99% of their goal is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation troubles you, this isn't your role. If it energizes you—because maintaining high standards demonstrates your belief in a student's capacity—continue reading.

Alpha students complete their academic work through AI-driven applications. No classroom lectures. No traditional textbooks. Half of your day is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering topics like public speaking, focus, and constructive feedback. The remaining half involves meeting with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress via Coachbot data, and driving each one toward 100% completion of their weekly app objectives. You won't follow a rigid script—workshops provide a framework, but the most effective coaches customize them and create new sessions when needed.

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 that they love you. Falling short on any of these three measures means the role hasn't been fulfilled. In your first year, you'll internalize the system; once you demonstrate the ability to uphold standards, you become eligible for Lead Guide, where you mentor new hires while continuing to work directly with students.

If you prefer traditional classroom instruction, need curriculum delivered ready-made, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible, this role isn't suited to you. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp counseling, tutoring students through challenges, or performing for young audiences, the final step before receiving an offer is spending a full day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you more than anything else, submit your application now.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 groups on subjects including public speaking, focus, feedback, and other transferable skills—customizing the framework and creating new sessions when you identify a need
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions designed to drive every student to 100% completion of their weekly app objectives, leveraging Coachbot data, Alpha's reward structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your personal connection with each child to overcome resistance
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery assessment) for each life skill and coaching students through retakes until they achieve mastery
• Adjusting your approach across a broad age spectrum—from kindergarteners who respond to energy and activity to eighth graders who require candor and accountability
• Serving as the adult who maintains expectations and the adult students choose to confide in; warmth creates the trust that allows you to challenge, and challenging reflects your confidence in their potential

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering traditional whiteboard lessons; academic content is housed in the applications, not delivered by you
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; you activate an established framework through energy and narrative
• Passively monitoring students at computers; motivation in this context is intentional, individualized, and persistent
• Reducing a weekly target to help a student achieve it; when a child falls behind, the solution is supporting the child, not adjusting the standard
• Evaluating homework, facilitating standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks don't exist in this model

Coach Key Responsibilities

Guarantee that every student in your K-8 cohort completes their weekly learning objectives, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they loved you.

Basic Requirements

• Able to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; Denver, CO; 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 of 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (including classroom teaching, 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 delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development
• Regular use of generative AI platforms (such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
• Authorization to work in the United States without requiring 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 accountability for motivating children toward defined objectives
• Demonstrated record of high personal achievement (academic, athletic, or professional) such that maintaining rigorous standards for others is habitual, not performative
• Storytelling ability and stage presence sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
• History of converting disengaged or reluctant students into active, invested participants

About Alpha

Want to join a learning rebellion that’s transforming the traditional classroom?

Alpha School is on a mission to reshape education with a bold approach that harnesses AI to accelerate learning and unleash student potential.

They don’t play by the old rules.

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.

Alpha School is rewriting the rules of education.

Sounds too good to be true? It’s not.

There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!

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. Consult for more details on this topic.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-4415-US-Oklahoma-Coach1.001