Youth Development Specialist, Alpha

$100,000/year W2 compensation, distributed weekly; full health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one. Relocation assistance is available for the on‑campus locations listed below.

You are not a classroom instructor. You are a motivator.

At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI‑driven applications. There are no lectures or textbooks. Half your week is spent facilitating one‑hour life‑skills sessions on topics such as public speaking, focus, and constructive feedback. The other half you work with students individually or in small groups, analyze progress via Coachbot data, and drive each student toward 100 % completion of their weekly app targets.

• Facilitating one‑hour life‑skills sessions for K‑8 groups covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other transferable competencies, customizing the framework and creating new modules when needed.
• Conducting daily individual and small‑group coaching sessions that drive every student to 100 % of their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot data and Alpha's motivation systems.
• Delivering the Test2
  
  Pass (Alpha's mastery‑based evaluation) for each life skill and working with students who don't achieve mastery until they do.
• Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners who thrive on energy and activity to 8th graders who respond to candor and accountability.
• Serving as the adult who maintains high expectations and earns students’ trust; warmth creates a foundation for challenge, and challenge communicates confidence in their potential.

• Teaching content on a whiteboard; academic instruction is embedded in the apps, not delivered by you.
• Creating curriculum from scratch; you animate an established framework with energy and narrative.
• Passively monitoring students on devices; motivation in this role is active, individualized, and persistent.
• Reducing a weekly target to help a student reach it; when a student is behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the goal.
• Marking assignments, running standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach;
  Campus Leads manage parent communication, and the other tasks are not part of this model.

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

• Available to work on‑site at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ;
  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 discipline.
• Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with K‑8 students (classroom instruction, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program management).
• A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a K‑8 student toward a challenging goal: the objective, your actions, and the result.
• Comfort with AI managing instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life‑skills development.
• Regular use of generative AI platforms (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude).
• Legal authorization to work in the US without visa sponsorship.

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after‑school programming where you held direct responsibility for motivating students toward measurable goals.
• Personal track record of significant achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), demonstrating that holding others to high standards is intrinsic, not performative.
• Communication and presentation skills capable of engaging a room of 12‑year‑olds for an hour without relying on volume.
• Proven ability to transform disengaged or reluctant students into engaged contributors.

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