Youth Development Specialist, Alpha - $100,000​/year USD

• $100,000/year W2 salary with weekly pay; health, dental, and vision benefits from day one
• On-site position at an Alpha K-8 campus in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ;
  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 assistance available

• $100,000/year W2 salary with weekly pay; health, dental, and vision benefits from day one
• On-site position at an Alpha K-8 campus in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ;
  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 assistance available

Your role is not instruction. It is motivation. The most meaningful support you can offer a student who reached 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that principle feels uncomfortable, this role is not for you. If it resonates because maintaining high expectations is your way of demonstrating belief in a student's potential, continue reading.

At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-driven applications. There are no lectures or textbooks. You will spend half your day facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and constructive feedback. The remaining half is dedicated to one-on-one or small-group sessions where you review student progress via Coachbot analytics and drive each individual toward 100% completion of their weekly app objectives.

You will not follow a rigid script—workshops provide a foundation, but those who excel in this position customize them and create new content when needed.

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

Pass for all life-skills workshops, and 90%+ report they love you. Falling short on any of these three measures means the role has not been fulfilled. During your first year, you will master the established framework; as you demonstrate your ability to uphold standards, advancement opportunities open to Lead Guide, where you mentor new hires while continuing direct work with students.

If you prefer traditional classroom teaching, expect a ready-made curriculum, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible, this position will not be a fit. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp counseling, tutoring where you refused to let students give up, or performing for young audiences, the final step before 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 on topics including public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, customizing the existing framework 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 objectives, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your individual relationship with each student to overcome resistance
• Delivering the Test2
  
  Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill and coaching 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 rigorous standards and the adult students trust and want to engage with; warmth creates the foundation for challenge, and challenge communicates your belief in their capacity

• Teaching from a whiteboard; academic content is delivered through the applications, not by you
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; you activate an established playbook through energy and narrative
• Passively monitoring students at computers; motivation in this context is active, individualized, and persistent
• Reducing a weekly target to help a student achieve it; when a student is…