Youth Development Specialist, Alpha

Benefits and Salary

• $100,000/year W2 salary, 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

Your role is not teaching. Your role is motivation. The most meaningful support you can offer a student who reaches 99% of their goal is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation feels uncomfortable, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because maintaining the standard demonstrates your belief in the student's ability to meet it, read on.

At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-powered applications. No lectures. No textbooks. Half your time is spent facilitating one‑hour life‑skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and the practice of giving and receiving constructive feedback. The other half is spent working one‑on‑one or in small groups with students, analyzing their progress via Coachbot analytics, and driving each student toward 100% completion of their weekly app goals.

You will not follow a rigid script — workshops provide a foundation, but the most effective guides adapt them and create new content when needed.

A successful quarter means every student in your cohort completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2

Pass for each life‑skills workshop, and 90%+ report they love you. Falling short on any of these three measures is falling short of the role. In your first year you internalize the playbook; as you demonstrate your ability to uphold standards, you become eligible for Lead Guide, where you mentor newer team members while continuing direct work with students.

If you prefer traditional teaching, want pre‑built curriculum delivered to you, or see warmth and high expectations as contradictory, this role will not fit. If you have experience as an athletic coach, camp counselor, tutor who refused to let students give up, or performer capable of engaging a room of eight‑year‑olds, the final step before receiving an offer is spending a full day on campus coaching actual Alpha students.

If that prospect excites you most, submit your application today.

• 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

Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort completes their weekly learning goals, achieves mastery of each life skill,…