After-School Program Director, Alpha

Overview

On-site at an Alpha campus in New York City, NY;
Miami, FL; or San Francisco, CA — relocation assistance available. On-site employment with a traditional elementary school model replaced by Alpha’s two-hour instructional model. Alpha operates on a two-hour instructional model where morning academics are handled by adaptive software, freeing time for coaching and life-skill development. You directly oversee a cohort of K-3 students while coaching the Guides who mentor and inspire the children.

You remain actively involved daily, not remotely from an office.

Salary: $200,000 annual

Employment:
Full-time position

• Coaching both Guides and students through performance metrics, classroom visits, and direct feedback, ensuring accountability to quantifiable objectives
• Leading one-hour interactive workshops for K-3 students covering life skills including public speaking, concentration, teamwork, perseverance, accountability, and feedback exchange
• Conducting one-on-one and small-group motivational sessions that connect each child’s goals and interests to tangible academic achievement
• Creating and iterating on playbooks that convert your effective methods into reproducible systems for other Guides to implement
• Training Guides on these playbooks and demonstrating excellence in facilitation to maintain quality standards as the team expands

• Teaching academic content or presenting lectures from the front of the classroom; adaptive technology handles instruction while you coach people
• Reducing expectations when a student encounters difficulty
• Managing from afar the way traditional instructional coaches operate; you remain embedded daily with your own cohort
• Managing the entire campus budget, operations, and parent communications; a Campus Lead handles those responsibilities so you can focus on student and Guide results
• Advocating for traditional pedagogical methods or adhering to a standard K-12 curriculum

Fulfill Alpha’s three commitments to every K-3 student: they enjoy school, achieve learning at twice the typical rate, and develop outstanding life skills and self-reliance.

• Able to work on-site at an Alpha campus in New York City, NY;
  Miami, FL; or San Francisco, CA; relocation assistance is available
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, Organizational Leadership, Child Development, or a related discipline
• Minimum 5 years of experience working with elementary-age children (approximately ages 5 to
  9)
• Proven experience leading a team of 5 or more individuals, with responsibility for hiring and removing team members based on performance results
• Demonstrated experience building, launching, or substantially expanding a program, team, school, or initiative from inception
• Comfortable operating in an educational environment that rejects conventional teaching approaches
• Legal authorization to work in the United States

• Master's degree in a relevant discipline
• Demonstrated success using data, dashboards, or analytics to identify issues and achieve measurable progress
• Experience coaching or supervising other adults to reach measurable results beyond performing tasks independently
• Experience in youth development, camp management, competitive coaching, tutoring, or enrichment settings where motivation played a central role
• Confidence and ability facilitating sessions or speaking publicly before groups of young children

Want to join a learning rebellion that’s transforming the traditional classroom?

Alpha School is on a mission to reshape education with a bold approach that harnesses AI to accelerate learning and unleash student potential. They don’t play by the old rules. Alpha is creating a new paradigm where students master core academics in just two hours a day, freeing up time for hands-on, passion-driven learning that truly prepares them for the real world.

Alpha School is rewriting the rules of education.

Sounds too good to be true? It’s not.

There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!

This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $100 USD/hour, which equates to $200,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult  for more details on this topic.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-5814-US-West Palm-After School Pro