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

• W2 salary of $100,000 annually, distributed weekly; comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage begins on day one
• On-site position at an Alpha K-8 school in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston (Central, South, or The Woodlands), TX; Park City, UT (Salt Lake City area) – assistance with relocation is available
  
  

This role is not about teaching. It is about motivation.

The most meaningful way to support a student who reached 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that principle troubles you, this is not your role. If it energizes you—because maintaining that standard is how you communicate belief in a student's capability—then continue reading.

At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-driven applications. There are no lectures or textbooks. You will spend half your day facilitating one-hour workshops focused on life skills: public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback exchange. The other half involves meeting students individually or in small groups, analyzing their performance via Coachbot analytics, and driving each one toward 100% completion of weekly app objectives. Workshops provide a foundation, but top performers in this position customize them and create new content when needed.

Success in a given quarter means every student in your cohort completes their weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass for all life-skills workshops, and reports a 90%+ satisfaction rate with you as their mentor. Falling short on any of these three metrics means the role has not been fulfilled. During your first year, you will internalize the operational framework; once you demonstrate the ability to uphold expectations, advancement to Lead Guide becomes possible, where you mentor new staff while continuing direct work with students.

If you prefer conventional teaching methods, need pre-built curriculum delivered to you, or view warmth and rigor as mutually exclusive, this position will not suit you. If your background includes coaching youth sports, leading camp programs, tutoring students through resistance, or performing for young audiences, the final interview stage involves spending a full day on campus mentoring actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you most, submit your application now.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 groups covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other transferable competencies, modifying existing frameworks and creating new sessions when you identify needs
• Conducting daily one-on-one and small-group coaching sessions that drive every student toward 100% completion of weekly app objectives, leveraging Coachbot data, Alpha's reward structures (campus currency, performance rankings), and individual relationships to overcome reluctance
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's competency-based evaluation) for each life skill, and continuing to coach students through retakes until mastery is achieved
• Tailoring your approach across a broad developmental spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high engagement and physical activity to eighth graders needing candid conversations and personal accountability
• Serving as the adult who maintains standards and the adult students trust; building rapport earns you the credibility to challenge, and that challenge signals your confidence in their potential
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering traditional lessons at a board; academic content is embedded in the applications, not delivered by you
• Developing curriculum from the ground up; you activate an established framework through presence and narrative skill
• Passively monitoring students at workstations; the motivational work here is direct, individualized, and persistent
• Adjusting a weekly target downward to make it achievable; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not lowering the standard
• Assessing assignments, facilitating standardized exam preparation, or handling family outreach; Campus Leads manage parent engagement, and the other tasks do not exist in this model
  
  

Youth Mentor Key Responsibilities

Guarantee that every student in your K-8 cohort completes their weekly learning objectives, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year affirming that they valued their relationship with you.

Basic Requirements

• Prepared to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX (Central, South, or The Woodlands); Park City, UT – support for relocation is available
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• Minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (including classroom instruction, athletic coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program management)
• A concrete example you can articulate of guiding a K-8 student toward a challenging objective: the objective itself, your actions, and the result
• Comfort with AI systems managing instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development
• Regular use of generative AI platforms (such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
• Authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto location)
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in coaching youth sports, debate programs, camp direction, theater, or enrichment initiatives where you held direct accountability for motivating young people toward defined outcomes
• Demonstrated record of personal excellence (in academics, athletics, or career), such that holding others to rigorous standards reflects your character rather than a role you adopt
• Communication and presentation skills strong enough to command the attention of a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without escalating volume
• History of converting disengaged or oppositional students into willing contributors
  
  

About Alpha

Join the team building school around student growth

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills.

Roles with real student impact: Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members.

Education work that pays like it matters: Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience.

A culture built for builders: Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. It’s for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it.

Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career.

There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!

Working with us

This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-4415-US-Brownsvi-YouthMentor.009