K-3 Program Director: Coaching & Playbook Leader

Alpha School; Surprise (AZ); On-site; USD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Job summary

Alpha School in Austin, TX or Scottsdale, AZ seeks a Program Director to lead a K-3 cohort, coach Guides, and scale effective practices. You own daily progress, read performance data, run coaching conversations, and write playbooks that become standards across the school.

This role emphasizes in-person collaboration, data-driven coaching, and hands-on leadership with relocation support provided.

Qualifications

• Willing to work in person at the Alpha campus in Austin, TX or Scottsdale, AZ; relocation support is provided.
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, Organizational Leadership, Child Development, or a related field.
• At least 5 years working with elementary-aged children (roughly ages 5 to 9).
• Experience leading a team of 5 or more people, including authority to hire and to remove people based on performance outcomes.
• Experience building, launching, or significantly growing a program, team, school, or initiative from the ground up.
• Comfortable working in a school that rejects traditional teaching methods.
• Legally authorized

Responsibilities

• Coaching Guides and students using performance data, classroom observation, and direct feedback, then holding both accountable to measurable goals
• Facilitating one-hour live workshops for K-3 students on life skills such as public speaking, focus, collaboration, resilience, accountability, and giving and receiving feedback
• Running individual and small-group motivation sessions that connect each child's goals and interests to real academic progress
• Building and refining playbooks that turn your best practices into repeatable systems other Guides can execute consistently
• Training Guides on those playbooks and modeling excellence in facilitation so standards hold as the team grows

Skills

Coaching

Public speaking

Workshop facilitation

Data-driven coaching

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Education

Bachelor's degree in Psychology

Bachelor's degree in Business

Bachelor's degree in Organizational Leadership

Bachelor's degree in Child Development

Job description

Alpha School in Austin, TX or Scottsdale, AZ seeks a Program Director to lead a K-3 cohort, coach Guides, and scale effective practices. You own daily progress, read performance data, run coaching conversations, and write playbooks that become standards across the school.

This role emphasizes in-person collaboration, data-driven coaching, and hands-on leadership with relocation support provided.