Youth Development Coach, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

The curriculum is already designed. The AI handles the instruction. Your role is to help a child see they're capable of far more than they imagined.

At Alpha, academic work is completed in just two hours daily using adaptive learning technology. This structure allows Guides to concentrate on transformational work: cultivating confidence, resilience, communication skills, and the drive to embrace difficult challenges. You won't be standing at the front of a classroom delivering lessons. Instead, you'll coach students through obstacles, recognize their achievements, and demonstrate what rigorous standards look like when combined with authentic support.

You'll be responsible for one K-3 cohort band—either Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd grade. Approximately half your day involves facilitating dynamic, one-hour workshops focused on life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and receiving feedback. The remaining time is dedicated to individual and small-group coaching, leveraging learning analytics to ensure every child progresses toward challenging weekly objectives. Each moment counts. Students should emerge from your workshops more skilled than when they entered and leave coaching sessions with expanded belief in their own potential.

This position isn't suited for someone seeking to deliver curriculum or oversee a traditional classroom. It's designed for someone who enjoys inspiring young children, operates effectively with measurable results, and trusts that the right coach can alter a child's path. If you've motivated kids as an educator, coach, camp counselor, youth program leader, or performer, you'll discover a fundamentally different kind of classroom environment here.

This is a full-time, on-site position at one of Alpha's campuses. We conduct national recruitment, so job postings may appear in nearby cities where no campus currently exists.

Current opportunities exist in Palo Alto, Los Angeles (South Bay), Malibu, Orange County (Lake Forest), San Francisco, and Santa Monica, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton and Miami, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; and Seattle (Kirkland), WA.

If you're interested in a different Alpha campus, submit your application anyway and indicate your preferred location—we'll evaluate you for the relevant opening.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitate dynamic life-skills workshops that enable K-3 students to develop communication, concentration, feedback reception, and other enduring skills through active engagement rather than passive listening.
• Provide one-on-one and small-group coaching, utilizing Coachbot analytics, established motivation frameworks, and meaningful relationships to ensure every child advances toward challenging weekly learning objectives.
• Evaluate life-skill proficiency using Alpha's Test2Pass framework, coaching students until they show genuine mastery—not merely attendance.
• Tailor your coaching approach to match the developmental stage of your cohort, whether that involves songs, physical activity, and narrative for younger students or increased autonomy and responsibility for older ones.
• Establish relationships where students feel sufficiently supported to push beyond their perceived limitations.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering academic instruction at a whiteboard. Students complete academic work through adaptive software.
• Creating curriculum from the ground up. You'll refine and customize proven playbooks rather than designing lessons from scratch.
• Observing students as they quietly work on computers. Your function is active coaching, encouragement, and engagement.
• Reducing expectations when students face difficulties. Progress comes from supporting students to meet the standard, not adjusting the standard downward.
• Overseeing homework, grading assignments, or managing routine parent correspondence.

Youth Development Coach Key Responsibilities

Develop a cohort of K-3 students who are enthusiastic about attending school, reliably meet challenging learning objectives, and acquire the life skills that equip them for success well beyond elementary school.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at one of Alpha's campuses. Current opportunities exist in Palo Alto, Los Angeles (South Bay), Malibu, Orange County (Lake Forest), San Francisco, and Santa Monica, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton and Miami, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; and Seattle (Kirkland), WA. Relocation assistance is available.
• Bachelor's degree in any field.
• At least 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4-9 through teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programming, or comparable settings.
• Experience facilitating group activities for young children, with a specific example of the structure or routine you implemented and how you maintained group engagement.
• A demonstrated history of motivating young children to reach demanding goals, with concrete examples of your outcomes.
• A specific example of modifying your approach in response to feedback and the resulting outcome.
• Comfort working with AI-powered learning while dedicating your own efforts to coaching, motivation, and life-skill cultivation.
• The capacity to combine warmth with consistently high expectations.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori, progressive education, or high-engagement after-school programming.
• Personal track record of reaching ambitious goals in academics, athletics, or your professional career.
• Exceptional storytelling or performance abilities that naturally engage young children's attention.
• Demonstrated success helping hesitant or reserved children become confident, active participants.

About Alpha

Join the team building school around student growth

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills.

Roles with real student impact: Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members.

Education work that pays like it matters: Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience.

A culture built for builders: Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. It’s for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it.

Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career.

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, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits ( https://support.crossover.com/article/7581-w2-benefits-u-s-paychex-paid-only). All roles are year-long positions. The compensation level for this role is $120,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-5634-US-Miami-YouthDevelopme.002