Early Childhood Specialist, Alpha

Most children forget the lessons they sat through. None forget the adult who truly believed in their potential. That defines this position.
At Alpha, academic instruction takes just two hours each day through adaptive learning platforms. This structure allows Guides to dedicate their time to the work that transforms lives: cultivating confidence, resilience, effective communication, and the drive to embrace difficult challenges. Your days won't be spent lecturing from the front of a room. Instead, you'll coach students through obstacles, acknowledge their progress, and demonstrate what rigorous standards look like when combined with authentic support.
You'll oversee one K-3 cohort band—either Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd grade. Approximately half your time is dedicated to facilitating dynamic, one-hour workshops focused on essential life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and receiving feedback. The remaining time is spent providing individual and small-group coaching, leveraging learning analytics to ensure each child advances toward challenging weekly objectives. Every moment counts. Students should emerge from your workshops with greater capability and leave coaching conversations believing they can accomplish more than they previously imagined.
This position is not designed for someone seeking to deliver standard curriculum or oversee traditional classroom management. It s intended for someone who enjoys inspiring young children, values measurable progress, and trusts that the right coach can alter a child s path. If you ve motivated kids as an educator, athletic coach, camp director, youth mentor, or performer, you ll discover a distinctly different learning environment here.
This is a full-time, on-site position at one of Alpha s campus locations. We conduct nationwide recruitment, so job postings may appear in nearby cities where we do not currently operate a campus.
Current vacancies at this compensation level are located in Scottsdale, AZ;
Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK;
Nashville, TN;
Austin, Georgetown, Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, and Houston, TX; and Park City (Salt Lake City area), UT.
If you re drawn to a different Alpha campus location, submit your application regardless and indicate your preferred site—we ll evaluate you for the relevant opportunity.
What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitate dynamic life-skills workshops that enable K-3 students to develop communication, concentration, feedback reception, and other enduring competencies through hands-on engagement rather than passive instruction.
• Provide one-on-one and small-group coaching, utilizing Coachbot analytics, established motivation frameworks, and meaningful relationships to ensure every child progresses toward demanding weekly learning targets.
• Evaluate life-skill proficiency using Alpha s Test2
  
  Pass methodology, guiding students until they exhibit genuine comprehension—not merely attendance.
• Tailor your coaching approach to match the developmental stage of your cohort, incorporating songs, physical activity, and narrative for younger groups or emphasizing greater autonomy and responsibility for older students.
• Establish relationships that create an environment where students feel secure enough to push past their perceived limitations.

• Delivering academic content from the front of the classroom. Students complete academics via adaptive software.
• Developing curriculum materials from the ground up. You ll refine and customize existing proven frameworks rather than creating lessons from scratch.
• Supervising students as they work quietly r function is hands-on coaching, encouragement, and interpersonal engagement.
• Reducing standards when students encounter difficulty. Progress is achieved by supporting students to meet the objective, not by adjusting the objective downward.
• Overseeing homework assignments, scoring assessments, or managing standard parent correspondence.