Youth Program Coordinator, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

• On-site at an Alpha campus: Atlanta, GA
• Oklahoma City, OK
• Tulsa, OK
• Austin, TX
• Keller (Fort Worth), TX
• The Woodlands (Houston), TX
• $150,000/year W2 salary, paid weekly. Day-one health benefits.
• Relocation support available
  
  

The most supportive thing you can do for a kid who scored 99% is tell them they didn't pass. If that sentence made you flinch, stop reading. If it made you nod, keep going.

At Alpha, kids learn academics in two hours a day through self-guided AI-powered apps. No teachers. No lectures. No classroom management of subject content. That frees you to do the work that actually changes their trajectory: leading high-energy workshops on public speaking, focus, and feedback; motivating students to hit every learning goal using real-time analytics; and coaching the Guides who work alongside you.

Your morning might start with a one-on-one coaching session with a Guide, reviewing performance data and identifying where a cohort is falling behind. By midday you're leading a live workshop with students, running a playbook activity on giving and receiving feedback. Afternoons shift to motivation sessions: connecting with individual students, understanding what drives them, and using Alpha's incentive model to get a resistant 7th grader back on track. You carry your own cohort directly, so you stay sharp on the same skills you're coaching others to develop.

You've probably been the square peg in education: too data-driven, too results-focused, too willing to challenge what's "supposed to" happen with kids. Alpha is the first place that might actually fit. You'll coach other Guides from day one, and as you deliver results at scale, your influence over campus-wide program quality grows.

Hold the standard. Change the student. Apply now.

What You Will Be Doing

• Leading one-hour live workshops on life skills (public speaking, focus, giving and receiving feedback) for K-8 (elementary and middle school) cohorts, following Alpha's playbook rather than improvising
• Running motivation sessions using student analytics and Alpha's incentive system (school currency, leaderboards) to drive 100% student goal completion
• Coaching Guides on program fidelity and standards enforcement, with every session producing tangible improvement actions
• Maintaining your own student cohort while developing other Guides
• Tracking student satisfaction scores, goal completion rates, and Guide performance metrics weekly to spot underperformance before it compounds
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Lecturing or tutoring students on academic subjects. Students learn through self-guided apps without an adult in the room.
• Designing curriculum or building lesson plans from scratch. The playbook exists; the bar is fidelity of delivery, not originality.
• Coaching Guides on teaching technique. Guides don't teach, so you're coaching energy, motivation, and accountability instead.
• Making exceptions when a student scores 99% instead of 100%. Holding the line is how you show them you believe they can get there.
• Being the "big ball of empathy" every school has. Kids get connection here, and they also get honest feedback and real consequences.
  
  

Youth Program Coordinator Key Responsibilities

Deliver Alpha's three promises to every student in your cohort: they love school, learn twice as fast as a traditional classroom, and develop real life skills.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-campus in Atlanta, GA; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Austin, TX; Keller (Fort Worth), TX; The Woodlands (Houston), TX (relocation support provided)
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in education, learning and development, coaching, youth leadership, or a comparable field
• Track record of leading a team of 5 or more adults, including hiring and making performance-based termination decisions
• Direct experience working with kids aged 5-14 in an educational or developmental setting
• Built, launched, or significantly grew a program, team, business, school, or initiative from the ground up
• Proven use of data and metrics to set weekly goals and drive decisions, not just report results
• Legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Master's degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or a related field
• Coached athletics, led wilderness or experiential programs, directed camps, or ran youth ministry at a scale that required running cohorts and measuring outcomes
• Left classroom teaching to build or run programs from a different seat: EdTech, tutoring businesses, youth nonprofits, or school intervention teams
• Early-career track record of high personal performance — academic, athletic, or professional — before moving into leadership
• Belief that the current education system is broken and personal investment in rebuilding it
  
  

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 $75 USD/hour, which equates to $150,000 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-4844-US-Brownsvi-YouthProgramCo