Student Excellence Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD
Listed on 2026-07-31
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Education / Teaching
Youth Development, Sports / Activity Coach
You believe the most valuable thing you can offer a student is the refusal to compromise standards. You have reached a level of achievement in your own life that most people only witness from a distance: elite competition, graduation from a premier university with honors, acceptance into a highly selective organization, or a venture you founded and grew. Now imagine channeling that drive into a space filled with K-12 students who have never encountered someone with your résumé, someone willing to push them toward benchmarks they didn't realize were within reach.
If the idea of enforcing elite expectations feels too demanding, this isn't the right fit.
Alpha leverages AI to deliver personalized 1-on-1 academics, enabling students to complete core subjects in roughly two hours per day. The remainder of their time is dedicated to life skills, passion projects, and meaningful development.
At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal accomplishments define the standard: someone capable of assessing group dynamics, establishing the culture, and guiding them through obstacles, distractions, and uncertainty.
You are not here to teach content. AI manages instruction. You are here to inspire, coach, and enforce the same exacting standards you've applied to yourself. Forty percent of your time is spent in direct 1-on-1 or small-group coaching sessions that identify barriers and establish stretch goals. Another forty percent is devoted to facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery, not engagement theater.
The final twenty percent is reserved for morning kickoffs that set a daily tone where excellence is the baseline.
The trajectory here emphasizes depth over advancement. You begin by mastering Alpha's methods and earning student trust. Within months, you become the person they allow to push them beyond perceived limits. The payoff is not a title change. It's continuity—the same students, year over year, maturing with you beside them. It's witnessing a child who struggled to make eye contact in the fall deliver a poised presentation to a room of adults by spring.
This position remains student-centered. Students are the mission, not a stepping stone.
What You Will Be Doing- Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions by interpreting Coachbot analytics and student data to identify obstacles, establish ambitious objectives, and enforce accountability for execution
- Facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery, drawing on credible narratives from your own high-level experience, and evaluating mastery through Alpha's Test2
Pass framework - Establishing the campus culture each morning via focused kickoffs that affirm high-performance norms across the student body
- Monitoring student progress continuously and refining coaching approaches based on evidence, not intuition
- Cultivating trusted mentor relationships with students and their families through unwavering standards, reliability, and formal motivation planning
- Delivering lessons, creating curriculum, or grading work — Alpha's AI-driven academic platform manages instruction; your focus is motivation
- Presenting to a class of 30 students (your work is intensive coaching in small settings, not large-group teaching)
- Supervising other staff or advancing through an administrative track (this role centers on direct student outcomes, not organizational management)
- Attending faculty meetings or dealing with institutional red tape (your hours remain dedicated to students)
- Compromising standards to meet targets (if a student achieves 99%, your role is to determine what prevented 100%)
Key Responsibilities
Lead outstanding student motivation, development, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's most demanding campuses.
Basic Requirements- Bachelor's degree
- At least one documented instance of exceptional achievement in a highly selective, globally recognized domain (examples: national or international competition medals, top-tier university with distinction, highly selective firm or fellowship, elite performing arts institution,…
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