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

• $120,000 annual W2 salary with weekly pay, plus medical, dental, and vision coverage from day one
• On-site placement at an Alpha campus in one of these locations:
  Bethesda, MD;
  Boca Raton, FL;
  Boston, MA;
  Greenwich, CT;
  Malibu, CA;
  Miami, FL;
  Miami Beach, FL;
  Palm Beach, FL;
  San Francisco, CA; or Santa Barbara, CA. Relocation assistance available.

• $120,000 annual W2 salary with weekly pay, plus medical, dental, and vision coverage from day one
• On-site placement at an Alpha campus in one of these locations:
  Bethesda, MD;
  Boca Raton, FL;
  Boston, MA;
  Greenwich, CT;
  Malibu, CA;
  Miami, FL;
  Miami Beach, FL;
  Palm Beach, FL;
  San Francisco, CA; or Santa Barbara, CA. Relocation assistance available.

Traditional schools expect students to meet standards. You ll help them surpass their own limits.

Every young person possesses potential they haven t yet recognized. When students encounter difficulty, most adults reduce expectations. Your approach is the inverse. You understand that genuine confidence doesn t emerge from flattery—it develops when someone achieves what they previously considered beyond reach. If you ve ever insisted a student, athlete, camper, or mentee push past their perceived limits, this work will resonate with you.

Alpha has redesigned education around one core insight: AI excels at academic delivery, while exceptional people excel e academics are completed through adaptive, AI-driven learning applications. Your responsibility is cultivating what technology cannot—discipline, resilience, communication skills, personal ownership, concentration, and the conviction that worthwhile goals require effort. Your days won t involve lesson delivery or paper grading. Instead, you ll coach students through obstacles, acknowledge meaningful progress, and guide them toward accomplishments they initially deemed impossible.

Approximately 60% of your time involves facilitating dynamic one-hour life skills workshops addressing topics such as public speaking, concentration, leadership, and feedback exchange. About 30% is dedicated to individual and small-group coaching, leveraging Coachbot analytics to determine which students require encouragement, accountability, or alternative strategies. The final 10% encompasses data review, coaching refinement, and preparation to strengthen the upcoming week. You ll begin with established workshop structures, then enhance and expand them as you identify more effective methods to motivate students.

Performance metrics are clear. A minimum of 90% of your students should regularly achieve their weekly academic targets, demonstrate proficiency in Alpha s life skills via Test2

Pass evaluations, and provide ratings of at least 4 out of 5 for their experience with you. Consistent achievement of this benchmark creates a defined progression to Lead Guide, where you ll mentor fellow Guides, and ultimately Campus Lead, overseeing the culture and outcomes of an entire school.

This position isn t designed for those seeking to lecture, execute predetermined curricula, or merely occupy students. It s built for coaches, mentors, youth leaders, performers, tutors, and educators whose definition of success centers on student transformation. Every finalist completes a full-day coaching session with actual Alpha students prior to receiving an offer. If that prospect appeals more than standard interviews, we should speak.

• Facilitating energetic one-hour life skills workshops for K-8 students, building communication abilities, resilience, focus, leadership capacity, and other enduring competencies while continuously enhancing the workshop delivery.
• Providing individual and small-group coaching guided by Coachbot analytics, customized accountability measures, and Alpha s motivational frameworks to ensure every student reaches ambitious weekly objectives.
• Evaluating life skill proficiency via Test2
  
  Pass and delivering focused coaching until each student exhibits authentic competence, not merely attendance.
• Adjusting your coaching approach for elementary and middle school age ranges, recognizing when a kindergarten student requires physical activity and positive reinforcement…