Youth Development Specialist

Job Description

About the Job

Location: On-site at Alpha campuses in Denver, CO | Atlanta, GA | Nashville, TN | Fort Worth, TX | Houston, TX | Park City, UT

Salary: $100,000 annual salary, distributed weekly.

Benefits: Full health, dental, and vision coverage starts day one. Relocation assistance provided.

The most valuable thing you can do for a student who achieved 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation feels uncomfortable, this position isn’t the right fit. If it energizes you because you understand that maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a student’s potential, continue reading.

Alpha operates differently from conventional schools. Students complete a full academic day in approximately two hours using adaptive software. No classroom lectures. No traditional textbooks. Your responsibility centers on what technology cannot replicate: guiding young people through essential life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback exchange. You’ll facilitate interactive workshops, drive students toward achieving their learning targets, and develop relationships where a reserved 4th grader ultimately presents with confidence before an audience of adults.

This position grows with you. During the first year, you’ll manage a focused student cohort and become fluent in Alpha’s methodology: life skills workshops, motivational coaching sessions, mastery-based evaluation. Once you consistently guide every student to 100% goal attainment while maintaining satisfaction scores above 90%, advancement to Lead Guide becomes available—a role where you’ll mentor a team while remaining directly engaged with students. The highest performers in this position don’t simply transform individual trajectories; they influence how an entire campus functions.

You won’t encounter this opportunity at a conventional school. If you’ve been working with young people through coaching, counseling, or mentorship and want to move beyond instructional teaching to focus on genuine development, this is your opportunity.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life skills workshops for K-12 students covering topics such as public speaking, concentration, time management, and constructive feedback practices (project-based and interactive, never lecture-driven).
• Conducting daily individual motivation sessions where you engage with students, examine their adaptive learning app progress (leveraging Coachbot analytics), and drive them toward 100% weekly goal achievement.
• Organizing and executing mastery-based assessments (Test2Pass) to verify students have genuinely acquired each skill, not merely attended sessions.
• Developing authentic connections with every student so they trust your guidance through moments of resistance, distraction, and uncertainty.
• Monitoring student advancement relative to satisfaction metrics and goal completion rates, modifying your methods when outcomes don’t meet expectations.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Standing before a classroom delivering lectures or providing traditional academic instruction (core academic subjects are learned through self-directed adaptive applications, not through your teaching).
• Creating lesson plans from the ground up (Alpha supplies a structured life skills curriculum and implementation guides; your role is to execute them with enthusiasm and narrative skill).
• Handling parent communications or school administrative duties (Campus Leads manage those functions; you remain concentrated on student development).
• Evaluating homework assignments or coordinating standardized test preparation (those elements don’t exist in this environment).
• Operating independently (you’re integrated into a campus team alongside Lead Guides, Campus Leads, and colleagues who exchange feedback and maintain mutual accountability).

Youth Development Specialist Key Responsibilities

Guarantee that every student in your cohort develops a love for school, achieves mastery in critical life skills, and reaches 100% of their academic objectives through adaptive learning technology.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in any discipline.
• 3+ years of direct experience working with K-8 students (in teaching, coaching, counseling, or youth program leadership capacities).
• Availability to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Denver, CO; Atlanta, GA; Nashville, TN; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City, UT (relocation assistance available).
• Capacity to participate in a paid training program at Alpha’s Austin, TX campus.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth development: athletic coaching, camp leadership roles, or youth program work where you held direct accountability for motivating children toward specific objectives.
• Demonstrated history of personal high achievement (academic distinctions, competitive sports, or leadership positions requiring sustained excellence).
• Innate storytelling capability: you can maintain the attention of a room full of 12-year-olds for an hour without increasing your volume.
• Experience re-engaging disinterested or resistant students and converting them into active contributors.

About Alpha

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!

Working with us

This is a 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 $50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-4415-US-Orlando-YouthDevelopme.053

Desired Skills and Experience

• Financial Analysis
• Agile Methodologies
• SQL
• People Management
• Mentoring
• Leading Meetings
• Reporting & Analysis
• Presentation Skills
• Client Relations