Student Excellence Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

Alpha School; Palo Alto (CA); Presencial; USD 70.000 - 100.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Alpha School in Palo Alto is seeking mentors who have demonstrated excellence and can push high-achieving students to elite standards. Your role centers on motivation and coaching, not teaching curriculum.

You’ll split time between 1-on-1 coaching, life-skills workshops, and morning culture-setting to foster focus, resilience, and confidence. This is high-touch, impact-driven work with lasting student growth year after year.

Responsabilidades

• Running 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
• Delivering structured life-skills workshops built for mastery using credible storytelling from your own elite experience, then assessing mastery through Alpha's Test2Pass system
• Setting the cultural tone each morning through focused kickoffs that reinforce high-performance expectations across the campus
• Tracking student progress in real time and adjusting coaching strategies based on data, not instinct
• Building trusted mentor relationships with students and families through high standards, consistency, and documented motivation plans

Descripción del empleo

\"the Great Educational Equalizer\" — Philosopher Johnathan Bi, on Alpha School

Alpha is hiring.

You believe the kindest thing you can do for a student is refuse to lower the bar. You've competed, built, or achieved at a level most people only read about: elite athletics, a top‑tier university with distinction, a highly selective firm, or a venture you built from nothing. Now picture putting that intensity to work in a room full of K‑12 students who have never had someone with your background in their corner, pushing them to standards they didn't know they could reach. If holding students to elite standards sounds harsh to you, stop reading.

Alpha uses AI‑powered 1‑on‑1 learning so students can master core academics in about two hours a day. That frees the rest of the day for life skills, passion‑driven work, and real growth. At Alpha's highest‑expectation campuses, students need more than supervision. They need a trusted mentor whose own achievements set the standard: someone who can read the room, set the tone, and coach them through resistance, distraction, and self‑doubt.

Your job isn't to teach. AI handles the instructional content. Your job is to motivate, coach, and hold students to the same uncompromising bar you've held yourself to. Forty percent of your week is direct 1‑on‑1 and small‑group coaching that diagnoses blockers and sets ambitious goals. Another forty percent is leading structured life‑skills workshops built for mastery, not entertainment. The remaining twenty percent is setting the tone each morning through focused kickoffs that establish a culture where mediocrity isn't an option.

The arc here is depth, not management. You start by learning Alpha's playbook and building credibility with students. Within months, you're the person they trust enough to let push them past what they thought was possible. The reward isn't a promotion. It's the same students, year after year, growing up with you in their corner. It's watching a student who couldn't make eye contact in September present confidently to a room full of adults in May.

This role stays student-facing. Students are the point, not a stepping stone to something else.

What You Will Be Doing

• Running 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
• Delivering structured life‑skills workshops built for mastery using credible storytelling from your own elite experience, then assessing mastery through Alpha's Test2Pass system
• Setting the cultural tone each morning through focused kickoffs that reinforce high-performance expectations across the campus
• Tracking student progress in real time and adjusting coaching strategies based on data, not instinct
• Building trusted mentor relationships with students and families through high standards, consistency, and documented motivation plans

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Teaching lessons, designing curriculum, or grading assignments — Alpha's AI-powered academic model handles instruction; you handle motivation
• Lecturing to a classroom of 30 students (your work is high-touch coaching in small groups, not broadcast teaching)
• Managing other staff or climbing an administrative ladder (this role is about direct student impact, not organizational hierarchy)
• Sitting through faculty meetings or navigating school bureaucracy (your time stays focused on students)
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