Associate, Alpha

• $100,000 annual W2 salary paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
• On-site position 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 assistance available

This role is not about teaching. It is about motivation and maintaining high standards for students. The job requires driving every student to achieve 100% of their weekly app objectives and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

• Facilitating one‑hour life‑skills workshops for K‑8 cohorts on public speaking, focus, feedback, and foundational skills, customizing the playbook and creating new sessions when needed
• Conducting daily individual and small‑group motivation sessions to drive every student to complete 100% of their weekly app goals, using Coachbot analytics, Alpha’s incentive structures, and relationship building
• Administering Test2
  
  Pass (Alpha’s mastery‑based assessment) for each life skill, and coaching students who do not pass until they achieve mastery
• Adjusting 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 standards and the adult students trust; warmth creates the foundation for challenge, and challenge demonstrates confidence in potential

• Delivering instruction at a whiteboard; academic content is embedded in the apps, not in teaching
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; you animate an established playbook with energy and narrative
• Passively monitoring students at computers; motivation in this role is active, individualized, and persistent
• Reducing a weekly goal to make it easier for a student to achieve; when a student falls behind, the solution involves supporting the student, not adjusting the target
• Grading assignments, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent communications;
  Campus Leads manage parent interactions, and the other tasks do not exist in this environment

Guarantee that every student in your K‑8 cohort completes their weekly learning objectives, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they loved you.

• Able to work in‑person at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ;
  Denver, CO;
  Oklahoma City, OK;
  Tulsa, OK;
  Nashville, TN;
  Austin, TX;
  Brownsville, TX;
  Fort Worth, TX;
  Houston, TX (Central, South, or The Woodlands);
  Park City, UT — relocation assistance available
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with K‑8 students (classroom instruction, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
• A concrete example you can describe of motivating a K‑8 student toward a challenging goal: the objective, your actions, and the result
• Comfort with allowing AI to manage instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life‑skills coaching
• Regular use of generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
• Legal authorization to work in the US without visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto campus)

• Background in youth athletics coaching, debate, camp leadership, drama, or after‑school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward defined objectives
• Personal record of significant achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), indicating that holding others to demanding standards is intrinsic, not performative
• Storytelling ability and stage presence sufficient to engage a room of 12‑year‑olds for an hour without escalating your volume
• Demonstrated success converting disengaged or reluctant students into engaged participants

This is a full‑time (40 hours per week), long‑term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly.