L&D Leader: Coach Guides, Elevate Student Resilience

Crossover; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 128,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Relocation support

Weekly pay

Job summary

Alpha is hiring a Learning and Development Manager to lead Guides who coach students and shape campus culture.

You will run life skills workshops for K-8, use performance data to improve coaching, and manage your own student cohort while modeling excellence.

This full-time, W2 role offers relocation support, day-one health benefits, and a mission-driven environment in which leaders bring out the best in people.

Qualifications

• Campus presence required in Dallas, TX; Oklahoma City, OK; Austin, TX; or Fort Worth, TX (relocation support provided).
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, Organizational Leadership, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in education, learning and development, coaching, youth leadership, or a related field.
• Experience leading an ongoing team of five or more adults, with final or primary authority to select team members and make performance-based termination decisions.
• Sustained, recurring responsibility for the learning, behavior, motivation, or growth of children ages 5–14 in an educational, developmental, athletic, or youth leadership setting.
• Track record of building, launching, or significantly growing a program, team, school, business, or initiative from the ground up, rather than simply maintaining or inheriting one.
• Proven ability to use performance metrics and data to diagnose problems, prioritize actions, and deliver measurable results.
• Willingness to work in a school that deliberately rejects traditional pedagogy.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.
• Nice-to-have: Master’s degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or related.
• Nice-to-have: Experience coaching athletics, leading outdoor or experiential education, directing camps, youth programs, or other cohort-based organizations.
• Nice-to-have: Experience building or leading innovative education, EdTech, tutoring, nonprofit, or learning programs outside traditional classroom teaching.
• Nice-to-have: Personal history of exceptional achievement in academics, athletics, entrepreneurship, or leadership.
• Nice-to-have: Strong conviction that education should develop capable, resilient, independent young people rather than simply deliver academic content.

Responsibilities

• Coach and develop Guides to deliver Alpha's coaching model with consistency, energy, and uncompromising standards.
• Lead engaging life skills workshops covering communication, focus, feedback, leadership, and resilience for K-8 students using proven playbooks.
• Use student and Guide performance data to identify coaching opportunities, remove barriers, and drive measurable improvements every week.
• Lead motivation sessions that help every student take ownership of ambitious goals and consistently achieve them.
• Maintain your own student cohort while modeling the coaching excellence and accountability you expect from every Guide.

Skills

Coaching

Leadership

Staff development

Youth development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, Organizational Leadership, or related

Job description

Alpha is hiring a Learning and Development Manager to lead Guides who coach students and shape campus culture.

You will run life skills workshops for K-8, use performance data to improve coaching, and manage your own student cohort while modeling excellence.

This full-time, W2 role offers relocation support, day-one health benefits, and a mission-driven environment in which leaders bring out the best in people.