Student Success Coach, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

Alpha School; Beverly Hills (CA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Alpha School in the United States is hiring for a full-time, on-site coaching role for K–3 students. You will lead two-hour daily sessions using adaptive learning tools, run one-hour workshops on life skills like public speaking, focus, and feedback, and coach students individually and in groups to reach ambitious weekly goals.

This role emphasizes motivation and measurable outcomes over traditional classroom teaching, with campus openings in Palo Alto, Malibu, and San Francisco.

Qualifications

• Coaching experience with young children in an educational or informal setting.
• Ability to motivate students and build confidence and resilience.
• Experience delivering engaging life-skills activities and feedback.

Responsibilities

• Lead engaging life-skills workshops for K-3 students.
• Coach students one-on-one and in small groups with analytics support.
• Assess life-skill mastery and adjust coaching to student needs.
• Adapt coaching style to developmental levels using songs, movement, and storytelling.
• Build relationships to encourage stretch beyond self-imposed limits.

Skills

Coaching

Public speaking

Mentoring

Student motivation

Tools

Coachbot analytics

Learning analytics

Job description

\"All of my students came back in the top 1% for growth and achievement on their MAP scores.\"

— Sam DePalo, Lead Guide, Alpha Fort Worth Texas

Alpha is hiring.

The lesson is already built. The AI already knows what to teach. Your job is to make a child believe they can do something they didn't think was possible.

At Alpha, students complete their academic work in just two hours a day using adaptive learning technology. That frees Guides to focus on the work that changes lives: building confidence, resilience, communication, and the motivation to tackle hard things. This is the coaching role you already know how to do—just without a classroom to manage or lessons to deliver. You'll spend your day coaching students through challenges, celebrating wins, and showing them what high standards feel like when they're paired with genuine belief.

You’ll lead one K-3 cohort band—either Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd grade. Half your day is spent running energetic, one-hour workshops on life skills like public speaking, focus, and feedback. The other half is spent coaching students individually and in small groups, using learning analytics to keep every child moving toward ambitious weekly goals. Every interaction matters. Students should leave your workshops more capable than they arrived and leave your coaching sessions believing they can achieve more than they thought possible.

This role isn't for someone looking to deliver curriculum or manage a classroom. It's for someone who loves motivating young children, thrives on measurable outcomes, and believes the right coach can change a child's trajectory. If you've coached, mentored, or guided kids as a teacher, coach, camp counselor, youth leader, or performer, you'll find a very different kind of classroom waiting for you 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.

Current openings are available in Palo Alto, Malibu, and San Francisco, CA.

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead engaging life-skills workshops that help K-3 students master communication, focus, feedback, and other durable skills through active participation rather than lectures.


• Coach students one-on-one and in small groups, using Coachbot analytics, proven motivation systems, and strong relationships to keep every child on track for ambitious weekly learning goals.


• Assess life-skill mastery through Alpha's Test2Pass framework, coaching students until they demonstrate real understanding—not just participation.


• Adapt your coaching style to the developmental needs of your cohort, whether that means songs, movement, and storytelling for younger learners or higher independence and accountability for older students.


• Build the kind of relationships where students feel supported enough to stretch beyond what they thought