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

Alpha School; Pomona (CA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Alpha School is seeking a Student Success Coach to empower K-3 learners through life-skills workshops and personalized coaching on campus.

You'll lead one cohort, run engaging one-hour workshops, and coach students individually using learning analytics to help them reach ambitious weekly goals.

This on-site role supports Alpha campuses nationwide, focusing on confidence, resilience, and communication as students achieve more than they thought possible.

Qualifications

• Experience coaching or mentoring children in K-3 settings.
• Ability to run engaging life-skills workshops with kids.
• Comfort using learning analytics to track progress and adjust coaching.

Responsibilities

• Lead life-skills workshops for K-3 students on focus, communication, and resilience.
• Coach students one-on-one and in small groups using analytics to hit weekly goals.
• Assess mastery through Alpha's Test2Pass framework until real understanding is shown.
• Adapt coaching style to developmental needs using songs, movement, and storytelling.

Skills

Coaching

Public speaking

Mentoring

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.

If you're interested in another Alpha campus, apply anyway and tell us your preferred location—we'll consider you for the appropriate opening.

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 they could achieve.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Standing at a whiteboard teaching academic lessons. Students learn academics through adaptive software.


• Writing curriculum from scratch. You'll improve and personalize proven playbooks instead of inventing lessons.


• Watching students work silently on computers. Your role is active coaching, motivation, and connection.


• Lowering expectations when students struggle. Success comes from helping students rise to the goal, not moving the goal closer.


• Managing homework, grading papers, or handling routine parent communication.

Student Success Coach Key Responsibilities

Create a cohort of K-3 students who love coming to school, consistently achieve ambitious learning goals, and master the life skills that prepare them to thrive long after elementary school.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to