Associate, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

Alpha School; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 78,000 - 97,000; Full time

Job summary

Alpha is hiring for a full-time, on-site role at a campus. You will lead one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts, conduct daily motivation sessions, and administer mastery assessments using Coachbot analytics. You will adapt the workshop playbook to reach a wide age range.

We seek a candidate with a strong record with K-8 students, Bachelor’s degree, and the ability to hold a high standard while building trusted relationships. Relocation support is provided where needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in any subject or equivalent
• Experience working with K-8 students in classroom, tutoring, coaching, or youth programs
• Ability to deliver life-skills coaching using adaptive learning tools

Responsibilities

• Lead weekly life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts
• Conduct daily 1:1 and small-group motivation sessions using Coachbot analytics
• Administer and review Test2Pass mastery assessments for life skills
• Adapt workshops and create new sessions to match age groups
• Be the supportive authority and trusted mentor for students

Skills

Coaching

Public speaking

Motivation

K-8 student support

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

\"We are never going to lower the standard for any kid — instead we're going to raise the support to help them get there.\"
— Braden, Head Guide, Alpha Austin

Alpha is hiring.

At Alpha, students learn academics through AI-powered adaptive learning apps. No lectures. No textbooks. No whiteboard. Motivation and life skills, the two things schools normally squeeze into the margins, are the whole job here.

This is a full-time, on-site role at one of Alpha's campuses. We recruit nationally, so job boards may display this opportunity in nearby cities that do not have a campus yet.

Current openings for this salary tier are available in Scottsdale, AZ; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; and Austin, Dallas, and Plano, TX.

What You Will Be Doing

• Leading one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts on public speaking, focus, and giving and receiving feedback


• Running 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)


• Administering the Test2Pass mastery assessment for each life skill, then re-coaching any student who does not pass until they do


• Adapting the workshop playbook, and building new sessions when you find a gap, so the same material lands with a kindergartener and with an 8th grader


• Being both the adult who holds the standard and the adult your students choose to talk to

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Lecturing at a whiteboard, writing math and reading lesson plans, or grading homework; academic instruction lives in the apps


• Running standardized test prep or answering for a class-wide test score


• Handling parent conferences, emails, and complaints; campus leadership owns all parent-facing work


• Crowd-controlling 30 students at once; cohorts are small and behavior work here is 1:1 coaching


• Supervising kids at computers; motivation here is active and personal

Associate Key Responsibilities

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.

Basic 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 you own 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 Requirements

• 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

About Alpha

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

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.

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.