Counselor, Alpha

Compensation & Location

• $100,000/year W2 salary paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision benefits starting day one
• On‑site role at an Alpha K‑8 campus located in Denver, CO;
  Oklahoma City, OK;
  Tulsa, OK;
  Nashville, TN;
  Austin, TX;
  Brownsville, TX;
  Fort Worth, TX;
  Houston, TX (Central, South, or The Woodlands);
  Park City, UT (Salt Lake City area); or Toronto, Canada (relocation assistance available)

You are not teaching content. You are building drive.

The most meaningful thing you can offer a student who reached 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation feels uncomfortable, this role is not for you. If it resonates because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a student's ability, continue reading.

At Alpha, academic learning occurs through AI‑driven applications. No traditional lectures. No physical textbooks. Half of your day involves facilitating one‑hour life‑skills workshops covering public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback exchange. The remaining half is spent working with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress via Coachbot analytics, and ensuring each one reaches 100% of their weekly app objectives.

You will not be reading from a script—workshops serve as a foundation, but top performers in this role customize them and create new content when needed.

A successful quarter means every student in your cohort completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2

Pass for all life‑skills workshops, and 90%+ report that they love you. Falling short on any of these three measures means the job has not been fulfilled. During your first year, you will master the established framework; as you demonstrate your ability to uphold standards, advancement opportunities open to Lead Guide, where you mentor new hires while continuing direct work with students.

If you prefer traditional classroom teaching, need fully prepared curriculum, or view warmth and rigor as conflicting, this position will not suit you. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp counseling, tutoring where you refused to let students give up, or performing in front of young children, the final step before receiving an offer is spending a full day on campus coaching actual Alpha students.

If that prospect excites you most, submit your application today.

• Facilitating one‑hour life‑skills workshops for K‑8 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other essential skills, modifying the existing framework and creating new sessions when you identify missing elements
• Conducting daily individual and small‑group motivation sessions designed to ensure every student reaches 100% of their weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your personal connection with each student to overcome resistance
• Delivering the Test2
  
  Pass (Alpha's mastery‑based evaluation) for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who do not pass until mastery is achieved
• Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and physical activity to 8th graders needing direct conversation and accountability
• Serving as the adult who maintains standards and the adult students trust; warmth creates the foundation for challenge, and challenge demonstrates your confidence in their potential

• Delivering instruction at a whiteboard; academic content is embedded in the applications, not delivered by you
• Developing curriculum from the ground up; you animate an established framework through energy and narrative
• Passively monitoring students on computers; motivation in this environment is active, individualized, and persistent
• Reducing a weekly target to enable a student to meet it; when a student falls behind, the solution involves supporting the student, not adjusting the goal
• Evaluating homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach;
  Campus Leads manage parent‑facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this model

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