Youth Development Coach, Alpha - $120,000​/year USD

The curriculum is already designed. The AI handles the instruction. Your role is to help a child see they're capable of far more than they imagined.

At Alpha, academic work is completed in just two hours daily using adaptive learning technology. This structure allows Guides to concentrate on transformational work: cultivating confidence, resilience, communication skills, and the drive to embrace difficult challenges. You won't be standing at the front of a classroom delivering lessons. Instead, you'll coach students through obstacles, recognize their achievements, and demonstrate what rigorous standards look like when combined with authentic support.

You'll be responsible for one K-3 cohort band- either Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd grade. Approximately half your day involves facilitating dynamic, one-hour workshops focused on life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and receiving feedback. The remaining time is dedicated to individual and small-group coaching, leveraging learning analytics to ensure every child progresses toward challenging weekly objectives. Each moment counts. Students should emerge from your workshops more skilled than when they entered and leave coaching sessions with expanded belief in their own potential.

This position isn't suited for someone seeking to deliver curriculum or oversee a traditional classroom. It's designed for someone who enjoys inspiring young children, operates effectively with measurable results, and trusts that the right coach can alter a child's path. If you've motivated kids as an educator, coach, camp counselor, youth program leader, or performer, you'll discover a fundamentally different kind of classroom environment here.

This is a full-time, on-site position at one of Alpha's campuses. We conduct national recruitment, so job postings may appear in nearby cities where no campus currently exists.

Current opportunities exist in Palo Alto, Los Angeles (South Bay), Malibu, Orange County (Lake Forest), San Francisco, and Santa Monica, CA;
Greenwich, CT;
Boca Raton and Miami, FL;
Chicago, IL;
Boston, MA;
New York City, NY; and Seattle (Kirkland), WA.

If you're interested in a different Alpha campus, submit your application anyway and indicate your preferred location—we'll evaluate you for the relevant opening.

• Facilitate dynamic life-skills workshops that enable K-3 students to develop communication, concentration, feedback reception, and other enduring skills through active engagement rather than passive listening.
• Provide one-on-one and small-group coaching, utilizing Coachbot analytics, established motivation frameworks, and meaningful relationships to ensure every child advances toward challenging weekly learning objectives.
• Evaluate life-skill proficiency using Alpha's Test2
  
  Pass framework, coaching students until they show genuine mastery—not merely attendance.
• Tailor your coaching approach to match the developmental stage of your cohort, whether that involves songs, physical activity, and narrative for younger students or increased autonomy and responsibility for older ones.
• Establish relationships where students feel sufficiently supported to push beyond their perceived limitations.

• Delivering academic instruction at a whiteboard. Students complete academic work through adaptive software.
• Creating curriculum from the ground up. You'll refine and customize proven playbooks rather than designing lessons from scratch.
• Observing students as they quietly work on computers. Your function is active coaching, encouragement, and engagement.
• Reducing expectations when students face difficulties. Progress comes from supporting students to meet the standard, not adjusting the standard downward.
• Overseeing homework, grading assignments, or managing routine parent correspondence.

Develop a cohort of K-3 students who are enthusiastic about attending school, reliably meet challenging learning objectives, and acquire the life skills that equip them for success well beyond elementary school.

• Willing to work on-site at one of Alpha's campuses. Current…