Coach

Job Description

About the Job

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

$100,000 annual salary, distributed weekly. Full health, dental, and vision coverage from day one.

Considering relocation? We provide support.

The kindest thing you can offer a student who reached 99% of their target is to insist it’s not finished. If that philosophy feels harsh, this position won’t suit you. If it resonates because you understand that maintaining high standards demonstrates your confidence in a student’s ability to meet them, continue reading.

Alpha operates differently from conventional schools. Students complete a full day’s worth of academics in roughly two hours using adaptive software. No classroom lectures. No traditional textbooks. Your role covers what technology cannot: guiding young people through essential life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback exchange. You’ll facilitate practical workshops, inspire students to exceed their learning targets, and develop relationships that transform a reserved fourth grader into someone who presents confidently before adult audiences.

This position grows with you. During your first year, you’ll manage a small student cohort and learn Alpha’s methodology: life skill workshops, motivation coaching, mastery-based evaluation. Once you demonstrate consistent success holding every student accountable to 100% goal completion while maintaining satisfaction scores above 90%, advancement to Lead Guide becomes possible, where you’ll mentor a team while remaining engaged with students directly. Top performers don’t merely impact individual trajectories; they influence how an entire campus functions.

Traditional schools don’t offer this opportunity. If you’ve been working with young people through coaching, counseling, or mentoring and want to move beyond instructional teaching toward genuine developmental impact, this role deserves your consideration.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life skill workshops for K-12 students covering topics including public speaking, concentration, time management, and feedback exchange (experiential and project-driven, never lecture-based).
• Conducting daily motivation sessions where you engage individual students, assess their progress in adaptive learning applications (via Coachbot analytics), and challenge them to achieve 100% of their weekly targets.
• Organizing and executing mastery-based assessments (Test2Pass) to verify students have genuinely acquired each skill, not simply attended sessions.
• Cultivating authentic relationships with each student so they trust your guidance through obstacles, distractions, and moments of uncertainty.
• Monitoring student performance against satisfaction metrics and goal achievement data, modifying your methods when outcomes need improvement.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Standing before a classroom delivering lectures or providing traditional subject instruction (students acquire core content through independent adaptive applications, not through you).
• Creating lesson plans from the ground up (Alpha supplies a life skills curriculum and implementation guides; your responsibility is to animate them with enthusiasm and narrative).
• Handling parent communications or administrative duties (Campus Leads manage those areas; you concentrate on your students).
• Evaluating homework assignments or preparing students for standardized tests (neither exists in this environment).
• Operating independently (you’re part of a campus team including Lead Guides, Campus Leads, and colleagues who exchange feedback and maintain mutual accountability).

Coach Key Responsibilities

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

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in any field.
• 3+ years of experience working directly with K-8 students (teaching, coaching, counseling, or youth program leadership).
• Willingness to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Denver, CO; Atlanta, GA; Nashville, TN; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City, UT (relocation support provided).
• Ability to attend a paid training program at Alpha’s Austin, TX campus.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth development: athletic coaching, camp leadership, or youth program roles where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward specific objectives.
• Demonstrated history of personal excellence (academic distinctions, competitive athletics, or leadership positions requiring sustained high performance).
• Innate storytelling skill: you can maintain the attention of a room full of 12-year-olds for an hour without elevating your voice.
• Success motivating disengaged or reluctant 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 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-Lakeland-Coach.010

Desired Skills and Experience

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