Early Childhood Specialist, Alpha

Position Overview

$100,000/year W2 salary with weekly pay; health, dental, and vision benefits begin day one. On-site at an Alpha campus located in Phoenix, AZ;
Oklahoma City, OK;
Tulsa, OK;
Nashville, TN;
Austin, TX;
Fort Worth, TX;
Houston, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT. Relocation assistance available.

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for groups of 10-15 K-3 students covering public speaking, concentration, feedback, and other enduring competencies
• Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching sessions that maintain student progress toward weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha’s incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the rapport you have established with each child
• Delivering the Test2
  
  Pass (Alpha’s mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill, and supporting students who do not pass until mastery is achieved
• Engaging kindergarteners through songs, narratives, physical activity, and humor, while simultaneously holding second- and third-graders accountable to concrete, measurable expectations
• Serving as the warm adult children are excited to see at drop-off and the adult who will not permit them to settle for less

• Delivering lectures from the board; academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you
• Creating curriculum from the ground up;
  Alpha supplies the system and you animate it
• Passively monitoring kids at screens; motivation in this role is active, individualized, and continuous
• Reducing a weekly target so a child can meet it; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the goal
• Evaluating homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach;
  Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the rest do not exist in this model

Ensure every student in your K-3 cohort meets their weekly learning targets, achieves mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year reporting they loved you.

• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Phoenix, AZ;
  Oklahoma City, OK;
  Tulsa, OK;
  Nashville, TN;
  Austin, TX;
  Fort Worth, TX;
  Houston, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation assistance provided)
• Bachelor’s degree in any field
• At least 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4 to 9 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
• A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a young child toward a challenging goal: the goal itself, your actions, and the result
• Able to participate in a paid training program at our Austin, TX campus
• Openness to allowing AI to manage instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship

• Background in youth sports coaching, children’s theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating young children toward defined goals
• Personal record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), demonstrating that holding others to rigorous standards is natural for you, not performative
• Natural performer’s energy with young children — the capacity to command a room of kindergarteners through voice, playfulness, and physicality
• Demonstrated success in transforming shy or reluctant young children into confident, engaged participants

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.