Youth Counselor, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

• On-site role at Alpha School's Brownsville, TX campus
• $100,000 annual W2 salary with weekly pay. Health benefits start on day one.
• Relocation assistance available with a one-school-year on-campus commitment

You've built your career coaching kids — not instructing them. The distinction matters: a coach pushes, connects, and won't let a student accept anything less than their potential. A teacher transmits information. You've never been in the business of information transmission.

Alpha operates the most unconventional school model you'll encounter. Students don't fill rows while listening to lectures. They progress independently through AI-driven learning platforms. AI manages the academic instruction. Your responsibility is delivering life skills workshops that command K-8 students' attention, conducting motivation sessions that drive them to reach weekly learning targets, and maintaining standards when students attempt to take the easy path. The academic progression runs itself. You manage the human dimension.

This position offers a meaningful growth trajectory, and that trajectory is increased student impact. Educators who reliably achieve their metrics (100% cohort completion of weekly app targets, 90%+ satisfaction ratings) advance into Lead Guide positions where they train other educators to execute this work more effectively. Students remain the priority.

The campus sits in Brownsville, adjacent to SpaceX's Starbase facility. If you're considering leaving your current position because of the mission — transforming what a child believes is possible for themselves — rather than adding a line to your CV, submit your application.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life skills workshops for K-8 students addressing topics including public speaking, concentration, and feedback exchange
• Administering Test2Pass mastery assessments following each workshop to verify students have authentically acquired the skill, not simply attended
• Conducting daily motivation sessions leveraging student profiles, personal interests, and Coachbot analytics to achieve 100% cohort completion of weekly app progression targets
• Employing storytelling techniques, incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and individual rapport to overcome student reluctance
• Monitoring cohort satisfaction ratings to maintain a 90%+ benchmark on student surveys

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Presenting lectures at the front of a classroom. Students progress academically via self-paced AI-driven apps, not through direct instruction from you.
• Supervising without engagement. The environment involves kids using computers; the role demands active participation.
• Compromising standards when students resist. Test2Pass requirements remain fixed, regardless of individual student circumstances during a given week.
• Creating curriculum materials independently. Workshop playbooks and lesson frameworks are supplied; your responsibility is executing them with the engagement and narrative skill that ensures genuine student comprehension.
• Handling parent communication, conducting admissions processes, or supervising facility operations. Those functions belong to different positions.

Youth Counselor Key Responsibilities

Lead a cohort of K-8 students to achieve 100% completion of their weekly academic targets while facilitating life skills workshops that maintain 90%+ satisfaction ratings.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any field
• Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 (elementary and middle school) students
• Strong storytelling and facilitation skills — capable of maintaining children's engagement throughout an hour-long session
• Available to work on-site at the Alpha campus located in Brownsville, TX
• Authorization to work legally in the US without requiring visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience as an athletic coach, camp counselor, or youth program leader
• Demonstrated history of high achievement in competitive settings (academic, athletic, or professional)
• Familiarity with self-directed or application-based learning environments

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 $100,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-5234-US-Brownsvi-YouthCounselor.044