Student Success Coach, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

The curriculum has already been created. The AI handles the teaching. Your role is to help a child discover they're capable of something they never imagined they could do. Alpha students complete their academic coursework in only two hours per day through adaptive learning technology. This structure allows Guides to concentrate on what truly transforms lives: developing confidence, resilience, communication skills, and the drive to embrace difficult challenges. Your days won't involve standing at the front of a classroom delivering lessons. Instead, you'll coach students as they work through obstacles, acknowledge their achievements, and demonstrate what rigorous standards look like when combined with authentic support. You'll oversee a single K-3 cohort band—either Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd grade. Half of your time will be dedicated to facilitating dynamic, one-hour workshops focused on life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and receiving feedback. The remaining time involves coaching students both individually and in small groups, leveraging learning analytics to ensure every child progresses toward challenging weekly objectives. Each moment counts. Students should emerge from your workshops with greater capability and leave coaching sessions with expanded belief in what they can accomplish. This position is not designed for someone seeking to deliver curriculum or manage a traditional classroom. It's intended for someone who excels at motivating young children, values measurable results, and understands that the right coach can alter a child's path. If you've motivated children as a teacher, coach, camp counselor, youth leader, or performer, you'll discover a distinctly different classroom experience here. This is a full-time, on-site position at one of Alpha's campuses. We conduct national recruitment, so job postings may appear in nearby cities where we do not currently operate a campus. Available openings exist in La Jolla (San Diego), Orange County (Lake Forest), Los Angeles (South Bay, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Malibu), San Francisco Bay Area (San Francisco, Palo Alto, Piedmont), Greenwich, CT, Boca Raton, Miami, Miami Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Chicago, Boston, New York City, and Kirkland (Seattle area). What You Will Be Doing Facilitate dynamic life-skills workshops designed to help K-3 students develop communication, concentration, feedback reception, and other lasting skills through hands-on engagement rather than passive instruction. Provide one-on-one and small-group coaching, utilizing Coachbot analytics, established motivation frameworks, and solid relationships to ensure every child remains on course for challenging weekly learning targets. Evaluate life-skill proficiency using Alpha's Test2Pass framework, continuing to coach students until they exhibit genuine comprehension—not merely attendance. Modify your coaching approach to suit the developmental stage of your cohort, whether that involves songs, physical activity, and narratives for younger children or increased autonomy and responsibility for older students. Cultivate relationships where students feel sufficiently supported to push beyond what they believed was within their reach. What You Won’t Be Doing Delivering academic lessons from a whiteboard. Students complete academic work through adaptive software. Creating curriculum from the ground up. You'll refine and personalize established playbooks rather than designing lessons from scratch. Supervising students as they quietly work on computers. Your function is hands‑on coaching, motivation, and engagement. Reducing standards when students encounter difficulty. Success is achieved by helping students meet the challenge, not by lowering the bar. Overseeing homework, grading assignments, or managing routine parent correspondence. Student Success Coach Key Responsibilities Develop a cohort of K-3 students who are enthusiastic about attending school, reliably meet ambitious learning targets, and acquire the life skills that equip them to succeed well beyond elementary school. Basic Requirements Able to work on-site at one of Alpha's campuses. Available openings exist in La Jolla (San Diego); Orange County (Lake Forest); Los Angeles (South Bay, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Malibu); San Francisco Bay Area (San Francisco, Palo Alto, Piedmont); Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton; Miami; Miami Beach; Palm Beach Gardens; Chicago; Boston; New York City; and Kirkland (Seattle area). Relocation support is provided. Bachelor's degree in any field. A minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4-9 in teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, or comparable settings. Demonstrated success motivating young children to reach demanding goals, with concrete examples of your influence. Ease with using AI-powered learning systems while directing your own efforts toward coaching, motivation, and life-skill cultivation. The capacity to combine warmth with consistently high expectations. Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship. Nice-to-have Requirements Background in youth sports, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori, progressive education, or highly interactive after-school programs. Personal history of reaching ambitious goals in academics, athletics, or your professional life. Exceptional storytelling or performance abilities that naturally engage the attention of young children. Track record of helping hesitant or reserved children develop into confident, active participants. About Alpha Join the team building school around student growth Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills. Roles with real student impact: Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members. Education work that pays like it matters: Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience. A culture built for builders: Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. It’s for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it. Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career. There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. 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 $60 USD/hour, which equates to $120,000 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-5634-US-Miami-StudentSuccess.035 #J-18808-Ljbffr Crossover