Youth Program Coordinator

You've dedicated years to coaching young people — not instructing them in a classroom. You understand the distinction: coaching means building rapport, issuing challenges, and refusing to accept mediocrity. Teaching means delivering curriculum. You've never seen yourself as a curriculum delivery mechanism.

Alpha operates one of the most nontraditional schools in existence. Students don't arrange themselves in classroom rows awaiting lectures. Instead, they progress through AI-driven learning software at individualized speeds. The AI manages instructional delivery. Your responsibility is facilitating life skills workshops that captivate K-8 students, conducting motivation sessions that drive them toward weekly learning targets, and maintaining standards when students attempt to underperform. Academic progress is automated. You manage the interpersonal dimension.

This position offers meaningful upward trajectory, and that trajectory means greater student influence. Educators who reliably achieve their metrics (100% cohort completion of weekly app targets, satisfaction ratings above 90%) advance into Lead Guide positions where they train other staff to execute this model more effectively. Students remain the central focus.

The campus sits in Brownsville, adjacent to SpaceX's Starbase facility. If your motivation for leaving your current position is mission-driven — transforming what children believe they're capable of — rather than credential-building, submit your application.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life skills workshops for K-8 students on topics including public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback exchange
• Administering Test2Pass mastery assessments following each workshop to verify genuine skill acquisition, not passive attendance
• Conducting daily motivation sessions leveraging student profiles, personal interests, and Coachbot analytics to achieve 100% cohort completion of weekly app progression goals
• Employing narrative techniques, reward systems (campus currency, competitive rankings), and individual relationships to overcome student hesitation
• Monitoring cohort satisfaction ratings with a target of 90%+ on student feedback surveys

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering traditional lectures at a whiteboard. Academic advancement occurs through self-paced AI-driven applications, not direct instruction from you.
• Providing passive supervision. The environment involves students using computers; the role demands active facilitation.
• Compromising standards when students resist. Test2Pass benchmarks remain firm, even during challenging weeks for individual students.
• Creating original curriculum materials. Workshop structures and lesson frameworks are supplied; your responsibility is executing them with the storytelling ability and commanding presence that ensures genuine student learning.
• Handling parent communications, admissions processes, or campus administration. Those functions belong to separate positions.

Youth Program Coordinator Key Responsibilities

Guide a cohort of K-8 students to achieve 100% completion of weekly academic targets while facilitating life skills workshops that maintain 90%+ satisfaction ratings.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 (elementary and middle school) age students
• Strong storytelling and group facilitation skills — capable of maintaining children's engagement throughout one-hour sessions
• Available to work on-site at the Alpha campus located in Brownsville, TX
• Authorized to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience as a sports coach, camp counselor, or youth program coordinator
• Demonstrated history of high achievement in competitive settings (academic, athletic, or professional contexts)
• Familiarity with self-directed or application-based learning models

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-5234-US-Brownsvi-YouthProgramCo.038