Youth Coach, Alpha

• $120,000 annual W2 salary with weekly pay; health, dental, and vision benefits starting day one • On-site position at an Alpha K-8 school in Beverly Hills, CA; La Jolla (San Diego), CA; Palo Alto, CA; Piedmont, CA; South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Raleigh, NC; Portland, OR; or Seattle, WA (relocation assistance available) This role is not about teaching. It is about motivation. The most valuable thing you can do for a student who reached 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that principle concerns you, this may not be the right fit. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a student's potential, read on. At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-driven applications. There are no lectures or textbooks. Roughly 60% of your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering topics like public speaking, focus, and constructive feedback. Approximately 30% involves sitting with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress via Coachbot analytics, and driving each one toward their weekly app targets. The remaining 10% is dedicated to data analysis that informs your coaching strategy for the week ahead. You will not follow a rigid script; workshops provide a framework, and the most effective coaches customize them and create new content when needed. Success in a semester means at least 90% of your cohort meets their weekly app goals, demonstrates measurable improvement in life skills on Test2Pass, and rates their experience with you at 4/5 or higher. Falling short on any of these three metrics means the role is not being fulfilled. As you demonstrate the ability to uphold these standards, advancement opportunities emerge to Lead Guide — mentoring newer Guides while continuing to lead a cohort — and eventually to Campus Lead, where you manage an entire school and handle parent relationships. If you prefer traditional teaching methods, expect curriculum to be fully provided, or see warmth and rigor as incompatible, this position is not for you. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp counseling, tutoring where you refused to let students give up, or performing in front of middle schoolers, 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. What You Will Be Doing • Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, feedback exchange, and other transferable skills, modifying the existing playbook and creating new sessions when you identify a need • Conducting daily 1:1 and small-group coaching sessions that drive every student toward their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's motivational systems (school currency, leaderboards), and your individual rapport with each student to overcome resistance • Managing the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who do not achieve mastery until they succeed • 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 • Analyzing weekly cohort performance data in Coachbot, pinpointing students who are falling behind, and modifying your coaching tactics for the next week based on the data What You Won’t Be Doing • Standing at a whiteboard delivering lessons; academic content is embedded in the apps, not delivered by you • Creating a complete curriculum from scratch; you begin with an established playbook and personalize it with your own style and narrative skills • Passively monitoring students on computers; motivation in this role is active, individualized, and persistent • Working through bureaucratic processes to secure resources for students in need; if a student requires additional coaching time, you decide and implement the same day • Grading assignments, administering standardized test preparation, or handling parent communications; Campus Leads manage parent interactions, and the other tasks do not exist in this model Youth Coach Key Responsibilities Make certain every student in your K-8 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, masters each life skill, and finishes the year saying they loved working with you. Basic Requirements • Able to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Beverly Hills, CA; La Jolla (San Diego), CA; Palo Alto, CA; Piedmont, CA; South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami, FL; Miami Beach, FL;