Youth Development Specialist, Alpha

The most meaningful support you can offer a student who reaches 99% of their weekly target is to hold the line at 100%. Not out of indifference, but because you know they are capable of finishing what they started—and that dropping the standard is the true disservice.

You are not a traditional instructor. At Alpha, academic content is delivered through AI-powered adaptive learning platforms. No classroom lectures. No printed textbooks. No whiteboard lessons. Motivation and life skills—the elements most schools treat as afterthoughts—are your entire focus.

Consider a typical Tuesday. You spend half the day facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions for a K-8 group, covering topics like public speaking, sustained attention, and constructive feedback exchange. The other half is dedicated to one-on-one and small-group coaching, where you review Coachbot data and guide each student toward completing 100% of their weekly app objectives, leveraging school currency, leaderboards, and the trust you've established to overcome obstacles.

Your quarterly success is measured by three outcomes: all students in your cohort meet their weekly app targets, all students pass the Test2

Pass mastery assessment for each workshop, and at least 90% report that they love working with you. Falling short on any of these three means the role's core purpose is unmet.

The reward comes when a student who spent September convinced they couldn't do math asks you to increase their challenge level.

This is a full-time, in-person position at one of Alpha's school campuses. We hire nationally, so job postings may appear in nearby cities where we do not yet operate a campus.

Current openings at this compensation level are in Scottsdale, AZ;
Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK;
Nashville, TN;
Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, Houston, and Brownsville, TX;
Springfield, MA; and Park City, UT.

If your preferred Alpha campus is not listed, indicate your location preference—we will review you for the relevant opening.

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions for K-8 groups on public speaking, sustained attention, and the exchange of constructive feedback
• Conducting daily one-on-one and small-group coaching that drives every student to complete 100% of their weekly app objectives, informed by Coachbot analytics and Alpha's incentive tools (school currency, leaderboards)
• Delivering the Test2
  
  Pass mastery evaluation for each life skill, then re-coaching students who do not pass until mastery is achieved
• Refining the workshop framework and creating additional sessions when needed, ensuring content resonates with both kindergarteners and eighth graders
• Serving as both the adult who upholds the standard and the adult your students choose to confide in

• Delivering whiteboard lectures, creating math and reading lesson plans, or grading assignments; academic instruction is handled by the apps
• Conducting standardized test preparation or being accountable for class-wide test performance
• Managing parent conferences, emails, or concerns; campus leadership handles all parent-facing communication
• Managing behavior for 30 students simultaneously; cohorts are intentionally small and behavior support is delivered through 1:1 coaching
• Passively supervising children at computer screens; motivation work here is direct and relational

Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort meets their weekly learning targets, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year saying they loved school.

• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale, AZ;
  Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK;
  Nashville, TN;
  Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, Houston, and Brownsville, TX;
  Springfield, MA; or Park City, UT - relocation assistance available
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• At least 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 (elementary and middle school) students: classroom instruction, tutoring, athletic coaching, camp leadership, or youth program facilitation
• Comfortable allowing adaptive learning software to handle academic content while you focus on motivation and life-skills coaching
• A track…