Youth Program Director, Alpha

Overview

On-site position in Toronto, Canada. Compensation: $200,000 CAD annually.

• Facilitating one-hour live workshops on life competencies (public speaking, focus, giving and receiving feedback) for K-8 students, adhering to Alpha's playbook
• Conducting motivation sessions leveraging Coachbot analytics and Alpha's incentive architecture (school currency, leaderboards) to achieve 100% student goal completion
• Coaching Guides on program adherence and standards enforcement, ensuring every session yields specific improvement actions
• Sustaining your own student cohort to ensure your coaching remains anchored in direct, firsthand experience
• Monitoring student satisfaction scores, goal completion rates, and Guide performance metrics on a weekly basis to identify underperformance promptly

• Instructing math, reading, or any academic content — adaptive applications manage all academic instruction
• Developing curriculum or creating workshop activities (Alpha's playbook serves as your operating framework; the priority is execution excellence)
• Coaching Guides on pedagogical technique (Guides do not teach — you coach energy, motivation, and accountability)
• Overseeing campus operations, budgets, or administrative functions
• Lowering standards when a student approaches but does not meet the threshold (the bar remains constant; your role is to support them in reaching it)

Fulfill Alpha's three commitments to every student: fostering a love of school, enabling learning at twice the conventional pace, and cultivating practical life skills.

• On-site presence required in Toronto, Canada (remote or hybrid arrangements not available)
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or related discipline
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in education, learning and development, coaching, or related area
• Prior leadership of a team of 5 or more individuals, including responsibility for hiring and performance-based terminations
• Hands-on experience working with youth aged 5-14 in an educational or developmental context
• Track record of building, launching, or substantially expanding a program, team, school, or initiative — not simply inheriting or sustaining one
• Comfort working within a school that deliberately rejects conventional pedagogy
• Legal authorization to work in Canada

• Master’s degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or related discipline
• Background in coaching athletics, leading experiential programs, directing camps, or managing youth programs at a scale requiring cohort management and outcome measurement
• Transitioned from classroom teaching to building or operating programs from a different capacity (EdTech, tutoring enterprises, youth nonprofits, school intervention teams)
• Familiarity with learning analytics platforms to inform weekly coaching decisions
• Conviction that the prevailing education system is fundamentally flawed and personal commitment to its transformation