Youth Counselor, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

Alpha School; Anaheim (CA); Presencial; USD 42.000 - 54.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Relocation support

Descripción de la vacante

Alpha School is hiring a Youth Counselor to coach K-8 students on life skills and motivation. You will run daily 1:1 and small-group sessions, use analytics to push toward weekly goals, and adapt session content to fit a wide age range.

The role is full-time and on-site at Alpha School campuses; relocation support is provided for selected locations.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in any subject.
• 3 years working directly with K-8 students (elementary and middle school).
• Ability to work in person at Alpha campus locations.

Responsabilidades

• Lead one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts on public speaking, focus, and feedback.
• Conduct daily 1:1 and small-group motivation sessions to push students to 100% of weekly app goals.
• Administer Test2Pass mastery assessment and re-coach when needed.
• Adapt workshop playbook and create new sessions to land material for diverse ages.
• Be the authoritative yet approachable figure students choose to talk to.

Conocimientos

Public speaking

1:1 coaching

Motivation sessions

Life skills

Educación

Bachelor's degree

Descripción del empleo

"We are never going to lower the standard for any kid — instead we're going to raise the support to help them get there."

— Braden, Head Guide, Alpha Austin

Alpha is hiring.

The most supportive thing you can do for a student who hits 99% of their weekly goal is refuse to call it done. Not because you are indifferent, but because you believe they can clear the bar, and lowering it is the real failure.

You are not running group sessions or managing caseloads here the way you might elsewhere. At Alpha, students learn academics through AI-powered adaptive learning apps. No lectures. No textbooks. No whiteboard. Motivation and life skills, the part of youth work that matters most and gets the least protected time, are the whole job here.

Picture a Tuesday. Half your day you run one-hour workshops for a K-8 cohort on public speaking, focus, and how to give and receive real feedback. The other half you sit with those same students one‑on‑one or in small groups, read their Coachbot analytics, and push each of them to 100% of their weekly app goals, using school currency, leaderboards, and the relationship you have built with them to break through resistance.

Your quarter comes down to three numbers: every student in your cohort hits their weekly app goals, every student passes the Test2Pass mastery check for each workshop, and 90% or more say they love you. Missing one of the three is missing the job.

The payoff is the day a student who spent September insisting they were bad at math asks you to raise their goal.

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 yet.

Current openings for this salary tier are available in Scottsdale, AZ; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; and Austin, Dallas, and Plano, TX.

If you have coached youth sports, run a cabin at camp, or counseled a kid who wanted to quit, the last step before an offer is a full day on campus coaching real Alpha students.

What You Will Be Doing

• Leading one‑hour life‑skills workshops for K-8 cohorts on public speaking, focus, and giving and receiving feedback
• Running daily 1:1 and small‑group motivation sessions that push every student to 100% of their weekly app goals, using Coachbot analytics and Alpha's incentive systems (school currency, leaderboards)
• Administering the Test2Pass mastery assessment for each life skill, then re‑coaching any student who does not pass until they do
• Adapting the workshop playbook, and building new sessions when you find a gap, so the same material lands with a kindergartener and with an 8th grader
• Being both the adult who holds the standard and the adult your students choose to talk to

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Lecturing at a whiteboard, writing math and reading lesson plans, or grading homework; academic instruction lives in the apps
• Running standardized test prep or answering for a class‑wide test score
• Handling parent conferences, emails, and complaints; campus leadership owns all parent‑facing work
• Crowd‑controlling 30 students at once; cohorts are small and behavior work here is 1:1 coaching
• Supervising kids at computers; motivation here is active and personal

Youth Counselor Key Responsibilities

Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort hits their weekly learning goals, masters each life skill, and leaves the year saying they loved school.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work in person at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; or Austin, Dallas, or Plano, TX - relocation support provided
• Bachelor's degree in any subject
• At least 3 years working directly with K-8 (elementary and middle school) students: classroom