About This Role
This coaching role focuses on student motivation and life skills within Alpha's K-8 program, where academics are delivered through AI-powered adaptive learning apps. The Coach runs workshops on public speaking, focus, and feedback, and provides one-on-one or small-group sessions to help students achieve their weekly app goals. The ideal candidate believes in raising support to help students meet high standards, rather than lowering the bar.
Responsibilities
- Lead one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts on public speaking, focus, and giving and receiving feedback
- Run daily 1:1 and small-group motivation sessions that push every student to 100% of their weekly app goals, using Coachbot analytics and Alpha's incentive systems (school currency, leaderboards)
- Administer the Test2Pass mastery assessment for each life skill, then re-coach any student who does not pass until they do
- Adapt the workshop playbook, and build new sessions when a gap is found, so the same material lands with a kindergartener and with an 8th grader
- Be both the adult who holds the standard and the adult students choose to talk to
- Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort hits their weekly learning goals, masters each life skill, and leaves the year saying they loved school
Requirements
- Willing to work in person at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; or Austin, Dallas, or Plano, TX - relocation support provided
- Bachelor's degree in any subject
- At least 3 years working directly with K-8 (elementary and middle school) students: classroom teaching, tutoring, athletic coaching, camp leadership, or youth program work
- Comfortable letting adaptive learning software deliver the academic instruction while owning motivation and life-skills coaching
- A personal record of high achievement, academic, athletic, or professional, that made holding a hard standard a habit rather than a posture
- Stage presence strong enough to hold a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without raising your voice
- Legal right to work in the United States without visa sponsorship
Nice to have:
- Youth athletics coaching, debate, drama, camp leadership, or after-school program work where you were personally accountable for kids hitting a specific goal
- Experience teaching social-emotional learning (SEL) or durable-skills curricula
- A student you can name who went from resistant or checked out to fully engaged, and the specific thing you did
- Daily use of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini
Benefits
- Immediate access to benefits
Important Details
- Employment type: full-time, W2 employee position
- Contract: year-long positions
- Locations: Scottsdale, AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Dallas, TX; Plano, TX
Application Process
- Full day on campus coaching real Alpha students as a final step before an offer
About the Company
Alpha is building school around student growth, reimagining the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills. Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members. It offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience, fostering a fast-moving, ambitious, and student-focused culture.
