Elite Student Performance Coach & Life-Skills Mentor

Alpha School; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits

Relocation support

Job summary

Alpha uses AI-powered 1-on-1 learning so students master core academics in about two hours a day. As a Performance Coach, you motivate and mentor students to meet elite standards, reading the room, setting the tone, and guiding them through resistance and self-doubt.

You'll split your week between coaching, life-skills workshops, and morning kickoffs, building credibility with families and tracking progress with data-driven techniques.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• At least 3 years of experience in student coaching, youth mentoring, athletic coaching, or leadership roles where you measurably raised others' performance.
• Ability to design and deliver an engaging multiweek life-skills workshop with clear progression, compelling storytelling, and measurable mastery.
• Willing to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Palo Alto, CA; San Francisco, CA; South Bay, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; or New York City, NY (relocation support provided)
• Legal right to work in the United States

Responsibilities

• Drive exceptional student motivation, growth, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's highest-expectation campuses.
• Run 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions using Coachbot analytics and student progress data to diagnose blockers, set ambitious goals, and hold students accountable for follow-through
• Deliver structured life-skills workshops built for mastery using credible storytelling from your own elite experience, then assessing mastery through Alpha's Test2Pass system
• Set the cultural tone each morning through focused kickoffs that reinforce high-performance expectations across the campus
• Build trusted mentor relationships with students and families through high standards, consistency, and documented motivation plans

Skills

Student coaching

Mentorship

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Coachbot analytics

Job description

Alpha uses AI-powered 1-on-1 learning so students master core academics in about two hours a day. As a Performance Coach, you motivate and mentor students to meet elite standards, reading the room, setting the tone, and guiding them through resistance and self-doubt.

You'll split your week between coaching, life-skills workshops, and morning kickoffs, building credibility with families and tracking progress with data-driven techniques.