Athletic Director, Alpha - $150,000​/year USD

• On-site location at an Alpha campus:
  Austin, TX
• Fort Worth, TX
• $150,000 annual W2 salary, paid weekly. Health benefits begin on day one.
• Relocation assistance available

• On-site location at an Alpha campus:
  Austin, TX
• Dallas, TX
• Fort Worth, TX
• Oklahoma City, OK
• $150,000 annual W2 salary, paid weekly. Health benefits begin on day one.
• Relocation assistance available

The most powerful thing you can tell a student who earned 99% is that they haven't yet passed.

Not because perfection is the goal. Because believing someone is capable of more is among the highest forms of respect.

Most schools shield students from failure. Alpha equips them for success. We believe confidence doesn't grow by lowering standards. It grows by guiding students to accomplish what they previously thought impossible. That conviction informs every choice we make.

Our approach is intentionally different. Students achieve academic mastery independently through AI-powered learning, which allows adults to concentrate on the work that transforms lives: coaching character, cultivating resilience, nurturing leadership, and instilling habits that produce exceptional results. We don't need adults to transmit content. We need leaders who understand how to draw out the best in others.

This position is central to that mission. You'll develop the Guides who engage directly with students, transforming them into outstanding coaches rather than traditional classroom instructors. You'll facilitate life skills workshops that students recall years afterward. You'll leverage performance data to pinpoint where students or Guides need support and coach them toward excellence. You'll also lead your own student cohort, ensuring the standards you uphold are the standards you demonstrate.

The impact is substantial. Each Guide you coach shapes dozens of students. Every enhancement you make to your campus culture multiplies across hundreds of young lives. Success isn't defined by meeting attendance or report volume. It's defined by whether students grow more confident, more disciplined, more resilient, and more capable because of the culture you helped create.

This isn't a position for someone seeking to maintain the existing education system. It's for someone who believes young people deserve more than compliance, seat time, and mediocre expectations. If you're motivated by coaching others through challenging obstacles, applying data to inform better decisions, and maintaining high standards because you truly believe people can meet them, you'll excel here.

• Develop and coach Guides to execute Alpha's coaching model with consistency, intensity, and uncompromising standards.
• Facilitate dynamic life skills workshops on communication, focus, feedback, leadership, and resilience for K-8 students using tested playbooks.
• Leverage student and Guide performance data to surface coaching opportunities, eliminate obstacles, and achieve measurable progress weekly.
• Conduct motivation sessions that empower every student to embrace ambitious goals and reliably reach them.
• Lead your own student cohort while exemplifying the coaching quality and accountability you require from all Guides.

• Teaching academic content. Students master core academics independently via AI-powered learning applications.
• Developing lesson plans or designing curriculum. Your focus is outstanding coaching, not producing instructional materials.
• Managing classrooms using lectures, worksheets, or behavior management systems. Students direct their own learning, and you coach the habits that enable their success.
• Reducing expectations to sidestep challenging conversations. High standards and authentic belief in every student's capacity are inseparable.
• Defining success by activity rather than outcomes. Results take precedence over effort alone.

Establish a coaching culture in which exceptional Guides reliably cultivate students who love school, achieve academic mastery at an accelerated rate, and develop the resilience, leadership, and life skills necessary to thrive well beyond the classroom.

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