Youth Program Director, GT School - $100,000/year USD

Alpha School; Round Rock (TX); Presencial; USD 90.000 - 110.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Relocation support

Day-one health benefits

Descripción de la vacante

GT School in Georgetown, TX is seeking a Youth Program Director to coach gifted K-12 students, advance their academic goals, and lead life-skill workshops using adaptive software. You will manage performance tracks and mentor a student cohort, with relocation support and day-one health benefits.

The role emphasizes mastery-based coaching, AI-assisted personalization, and building outcomes-focused programs across campus. On-site execution and leadership responsibilities drive school-wide impact.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in any subject (required).
• 3+ years working directly with students in GT or gifted education.
• Daily use of generative AI tools in an educational context.

Responsabilidades

• Lead one-hour life skill workshops and assess mastery.
• Conduct daily motivation sessions and review analytics.
• Personalize coaching using AI to fit individual student profiles.
• Review curriculum and deliver engaging, playbook-aligned workshops.
• Track satisfaction and progress, adjusting approach based on data.

Conocimientos

AI tools usage

Student coaching

Public speaking

Educación

Bachelor's degree

Herramientas

ChatGPT

Claude

Gemini

Descripción del empleo

Location: On-site in Georgetown, TX (Austin area), with relocation support provided

Compensation: $100,000/year

Schedule: Full-time, 40 hours/week

Benefits: Day-one health benefits

The standard for gifted education is usually a slightly harder worksheet. You know that. You were one of those students. You've seen what they're capable of when someone refuses to accept the usual ceiling. That's the job here: push gifted K-12 students to complete high school 5-10x faster than traditional schooling while developing emotional intelligence and life skills most adults never master. The school handles academic delivery through adaptive software. Your job is everything the apps can't do: coaching students through resistance, running mastery-based life skill workshops, and holding a standard where 90% satisfaction and 100% goal attainment aren't targets to aspire to. They're the floor.

Most days split between two types of work. First: one-hour life skill workshops (public speaking, focus, giving and receiving feedback), structured, hands-on, and assessed via a mastery test that students either pass or retake. Second: motivation sessions where you review Coachbot analytics, connect with students on their individual goals, and use age-appropriate incentives (school currency, leaderboards) to push through the moments when kids want to coast. Both are measured. Satisfaction scores and app advancement rates tell you how well you're coaching — not how much content you covered.

The trajectory is explicit. Strong performers move into senior coaching roles, managing a team while continuing to run their own student cohort. Those who deliver at scale become Campus Leads, owning the full school operation, parent relationships, and site outcomes. This is a performance track. The ceiling is set entirely by what you can deliver.

What You Will Be Doing

• Running one-hour life skill workshops on topics like public speaking, focus, and giving and receiving feedback, delivered hands-on and project-based, with each session closed by a mastery assessment (Test2Pass) that students must pass to advance.
• Leading daily motivation sessions: reviewing Coachbot analytics, connecting with each student's personal goals, and using level-appropriate incentives to push through resistance and hit weekly advancement targets.
• Personalizing your coaching approach using generative AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) to adapt sessions to individual student profiles and learning patterns.
• Reviewing curriculum and lesson plans before each session to deliver engaging, playbook-compliant workshops that students rate highly.
• Tracking satisfaction scores and app advancement metrics and adjusting your approach when the data shows students aren't advancing or aren't engaged.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering academic content, tutoring, or explaining curriculum — students learn through self-guided apps; your role is coaching and motivation, not instruction.
• Being pressured to pass a student who hasn't demonstrated mastery: the standard holds regardless of how close they came.
• Managing classroom behavior: these are gifted, motivated students; behavioral disruption isn't the primary challenge you're solving.
• Building lesson plans from scratch: the curriculum and playbooks exist; your job is to execute them at a high level, not redesign them.
• Grading papers, managing administrative paperwork, or attending planning meetings that don't connect to student outcomes.

Youth Program Director Key Responsibilities

Coach gifted K-12 students to master life skills and advance through their academic goals at gt.school's Georgetown campus.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-site in Georgetown, TX — relocation support provided.
• Bachelor's degree in any subject.
• Demonstrated history of academic excellence (e.g., National Merit Scholar, academic competitions, early college graduation).
• 3+ years working directly with students in a gifted and talented (GT) program, gifted education track, or formally identified gifted learner setting (school, district, enrichment program, or equivalent).
• Daily user of generative AI tools in an educational context (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or similar).
• Able to hold the attention of large student groups, in person and online, and build trust with gifted learners while coaching them toward ambitious goals.
• Legal right to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background as a competitive athlete, academic competitor, or elite performer who understands what high-performance culture looks like from the inside.
• Experience running structured workshops or presentations for youth audiences (debate coach, camp director, enrichment program instructor, or similar).
• Prior experience with mastery-based or competency-based learning environments where students advance by demonstrating skill, not by age or time.
• Track record of using AI tools to personalize coaching or learning plans for individual students.

About GT School

GT School is revolutionizing education with AI, expert coaching, and 50+ years of learning science. They blend cutting-edge tech with data-driven insights to unlock every student's full potential.

They're on a mission to disrupt the broken education system and unleash the true potential of gifted minds. Forget the one-size-fits-all approach that leaves brilliant students bored and disengaged.

This school has tossed the rulebook and created a modern learning environment powered by AI and guided by dedicated mentors. Their personalized approach accelerates learning - 2-6 times faster than traditional classrooms.

GT School students explore their passions, develop critical thinking skills, and learn to innovate.

Because that's where genius lies.

GT School is where gifted minds turn potential into power.

Working with us

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