Counselor, Alpha - $100,000​/year USD

The most compassionate response to a student who reaches 99% of their weekly target is to insist they finish the job. Not because you lack empathy, but because you know they are capable of meeting the standard, and accepting less does them no favors. You will not be teaching academics. At Alpha, students complete their academic work through AI-driven adaptive learning platforms.

No classroom instruction. No printed curriculum. No traditional teaching. Motivation and life skills—the elements conventional schools treat as secondary—become the core of your role here.

Consider a typical Tuesday. Half your time is spent facilitating one-hour workshops for K-8 cohorts on topics like public speaking, focus, and how to offer and accept constructive feedback. The remainder is dedicated to sitting with those same students individually or in small groups, reviewing their Coachbot data, and driving each one toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets, using school currency, leaderboards, and the trust you've built to overcome obstacles.

Your quarterly performance hinges on three metrics: every student in your cohort completes their weekly app goals, every student passes the Test2

Pass mastery check for each workshop, and 90% or more report they love working with you. Fall short on any one, and you've missed the mark.

The reward comes the day a student who spent September convinced they couldn't do math asks you to increase their goal.

This is a full-time, in-person position at one of Alpha's campuses. We recruit nationally, so job listings may appear in nearby cities that do not yet have a campus.

Current openings for this salary tier are available in Scottsdale, AZ;
Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK;
Nashville, TN;
Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, Houston, and Brownsville, TX;
Springfield, MA; and Park City, UT.

If another Alpha campus interests you, submit your application and indicate your preferred location—we'll review you for the matching opening.

If you have coached youth sports, led a cabin at camp, or tutored a child who wanted to quit, the final step before an offer is a full day on campus coaching real Alpha students. If that day excites you most, apply today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, and giving and receiving feedback
• Conducting daily 1:1 and small-group motivation sessions to ensure every student reaches 100% of their weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics and Alpha's incentive systems (school currency, leaderboards)
• Delivering the Test2
  
  Pass mastery assessment for each life skill, then re-coaching students who do not pass until mastery is achieved
• Modifying the workshop playbook and creating new sessions when you identify a need, so the content resonates with both kindergarteners and 8th graders
• Serving as both the adult who maintains the standard and the adult your students trust and confide in

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Teaching at a whiteboard, creating math and reading lesson plans, or grading homework; academic content is delivered through the apps
• Conducting standardized test prep or being accountable for a class-wide test score
• Managing parent conferences, emails, and concerns; campus leadership handles all parent-facing communication
• Controlling behavior in groups of 30 students; cohorts are small and behavior coaching here is individualized
• Monitoring kids at computers; motivation work here is active and relational

Counselor Key Responsibilities

Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort completes their weekly learning goals, masters each life skill, and finishes the year saying they loved school.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work in person at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale, AZ;
  Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK;
  Nashville, TN;
  Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, Houston, and Brownsville, TX;
  Springfield, MA; or Park City, UT - relocation support provided
• Bachelor's degree in any subject
• At least 3 years working directly with K-8 (elementary and middle school) students: classroom teaching, tutoring, athletic coaching, camp leadership, or youth program work
• Comfortable allowing adaptive learning software to handle academic instruction…