Youth Mentor, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

Compensation & Benefits $100,000/year W2 salary paid weekly; health, dental, and vision benefits begin day one. Location On-site at an Alpha K-8 campus 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 area). Relocation assistance available. About the Role You are not a teacher. You drive motivation. The most supportive action you can take for a student who reached 99% of their goal is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that principle makes you uneasy, this role isn't for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards demonstrates your belief in a student's potential, read on. At Alpha, students complete their academic work through AI-powered applications. No lectures. No textbooks. Half your time is spent facilitating one-hour life‑skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and how to give and receive meaningful feedback. The other half involves meeting with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress via Coachbot analytics, and driving each one toward 100% completion of their weekly app objectives. You will not follow a rigid script — workshops provide a foundation, but top performers in this role customize them and create new ones 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 metrics means the job is not being done. In your first year you will master the system; as you demonstrate your ability to maintain standards, advancement opportunities open to Lead Guide, where you mentor new hires while continuing to work directly with students. What You Will Be Doing Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, customizing the playbook and creating new sessions when you identify gaps 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 (school currency, leaderboards), and your rapport with each student to overcome resistance Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill, and working with students who do not 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 communication and accountability Serving as the adult who upholds expectations and the adult students trust; warmth creates the foundation for pushing, and pushing demonstrates your confidence in their ability to succeed What You Won’t Be Doing Delivering lectures at a whiteboard; academic content is housed in the apps, not delivered by you Creating curriculum from the ground up; you animate a tested playbook with energy and narrative Passively monitoring students at computers; motivation in this role is active, individualized, and persistent Reducing a weekly target to help a student achieve it; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the goal Grading assignments, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent communication; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this model Youth Mentor Key Responsibilities Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort achieves their weekly learning objectives, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and concludes the year reporting they loved you. Basic Requirements Willing 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 with AI managing instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching Daily use of generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude) Legal 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 programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward defined goals Personal track record of exceptional achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), demonstrating that holding others to rigorous standards is intrinsic, not performative Storytelling ability and stage presence sufficient to command the attention of 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 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