Youth Development Specialist, Alpha

Salary: $100,000/year W2, paid weekly; health, dental, and vision benefits starting day one.

On‑site role at an Alpha K‑8 campus in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ;
Denver, CO;
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 support available.

• Facilitating one‑hour life‑skills workshops for K‑8 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, modifying the playbook and creating new sessions when you identify a need.
• Conducting daily one‑on‑one 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 relationship with each student to overcome resistance.
• Delivering the Test2
  
  Pass (Alpha's mastery‑based assessment) for each life skill, and supporting 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 conversation and accountability.
• Serving as the adult who maintains high standards and the adult students trust; warmth creates the foundation to challenge, and challenging demonstrates your confidence in their potential.

• Delivering lectures at a whiteboard; academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you.
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; you execute a proven playbook with energy and narrative skill.
• Passively monitoring students at computers; motivation in this role is active, personal, and persistent.
• Reducing a weekly goal to enable a student to reach it; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the target.
• Grading homework, facilitating standardized test preparation, or handling parent communication;
  Campus Leads manage parent‑facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this model.

• Willing to work on‑site at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ;
  Denver, CO;
  Oklahoma City, OK;
  Tulsa, OK;
  Nashville, TN;
  Austin, TX;
  Brownsville, TX;
  Fort Worth, TX;
  Houston (Central, South, or The Woodlands), TX;
  Park City, UT – relocation support available.
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline.
• Minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with K‑8 students (classroom teaching, 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 goal itself, your actions, and the result.
• Comfort with AI managing instructional content 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 requiring visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto campus).

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after‑school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating students toward defined goals.
• History of personal high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to rigorous standards is a consistent practice, not an adopted stance.
• Storytelling ability and stage presence sufficient to engage a room of 12‑year‑olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice.
• Demonstrated success converting disengaged or resistant students into active, engaged participants.