Youth Development Specialist, Alpha

On-site role in Springfield, MA (we provide relocation assistance)

• $100,000 annual compensation, distributed weekly. Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage begins on day one

Do you notice when a student reaches 99% and instinctively know that stopping short means settling? Truly supporting a young person who s achieved 99% of their target means refusing to accept incomplete effort. If that expectation feels too demanding, this position won t be the right fit. If it energizes you—because you understand that maintaining high standards demonstrates your confidence in a student s ability to succeed—continue reading.

Alpha operates differently than conventional schools. Students complete a full academic day s work in roughly two hours using adaptive technology. There are no traditional lectures or textbooks.

Your role centers on what technology cannot replicate: developing life competencies in Pre-K through 8th grade students—skills like public speaking, sustained attention, and constructive feedback exchange. You ll spend half your time facilitating hands-on workshops guided by structured frameworks and narrative techniques. The remaining half involves individual and small-group sessions where you analyze student performance in adaptive platforms via Coachbot analytics and ensure they reach 100% of weekly targets.

Mastery is demonstrated through Test2

Pass evaluations, not through participation metrics.

This is highly selective work. Your first year will focus on mastering the model: facilitating workshops, conducting motivation sessions, administering mastery evaluations, and demonstrating your capacity to hold every student accountable to 100% completion. Excel in this foundation and advancement to Lead Guide becomes available. The role requires warmth, commanding presence, and uncompromising standards.

• Facilitating one-hour life competency workshops covering public speaking, sustained focus, collaborative work, and feedback exchange, calibrating your delivery and energy for Pre-K through 8th grade developmental ranges
• Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching sessions where you analyze each student s adaptive learning app performance (via Coachbot analytics), establish clear objectives, and ensure they achieve 100% of weekly benchmarks
• Administering and assessing Test2
  
  Pass evaluations to verify genuine mastery of each life skill, distinguishing true competency from mere attendance
• Deploying focused interventions when students lag academically or in active participation—diagnosing underlying issues and constructing targeted recovery strategies
• Cultivating authentic connections with each student, creating the trust foundation necessary for effective coaching through moments of resistance, distraction, and uncertainty

• Delivering lectures or conventional academic lessons (core subject learning happens through adaptive platforms, not direct instruction from you)
• Creating original lesson plans or curriculum materials (Alpha supplies comprehensive life skills frameworks; you execute them with dynamism and narrative skill)
• Handling parent communications or administrative operations (Campus Leads manage these functions; your attention remains on student development)
• Evaluating homework assignments or preparing students for standardized testing (these elements are absent from our model)
• Operating independently without collaboration (you function within a campus team including Lead Guides, Campus Leads, and colleagues who exchange feedback and maintain mutual accountability)

• Bachelor s degree in any discipline.
• Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with Pre-K through 8th grade students (in teaching, coaching, counseling, or youth program leadership capacities).
• Demonstrated experience motivating or coaching Pre-K through 8th grade students toward academic, behavioral,…