Life Skills Guide

• On-site position at Alpha campuses in Denver, CO | Atlanta, GA | Nashville, TN | Fort Worth, TX | Houston, TX | Park City, UT
• $100,000 annual salary, distributed weekly. Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage starts immediately
• Relocating for the role? We provide relocation assistance
  
  

The most powerful way to support a student who achieved 99% of their target is to insist it's not complete. If that principle unsettles you, this position won't be the right fit. If it energizes you—because you understand that maintaining high standards demonstrates your belief in a student's capacity—continue reading.

Alpha operates differently from conventional schools. Students complete a full academic day in approximately two hours using adaptive software. No traditional lectures. No textbooks. Your role centers on what technology cannot replicate: guiding young people through essential life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and feedback exchange. You'll facilitate interactive workshops, drive students toward their learning targets, and develop relationships that transform a reserved 4th grader into someone who presents with confidence before adult audiences.

This position grows with you. During your first year, you'll manage a small student cohort and become fluent in Alpha's methodology: life skill workshops, motivation coaching, mastery-based evaluation. Once you demonstrate the ability to hold every student accountable to 100% goal completion while maintaining satisfaction scores above 90%, advancement to Lead Guide becomes available—a role where you mentor a team while remaining directly engaged with students. Top performers in this role don't simply transform individual trajectories; they influence campus-wide operations.

Traditional schools don't offer this opportunity. If you've been working with kids through coaching, counseling, or mentoring and want to eliminate instructional teaching in favor of genuine developmental work, this is the right next step.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life skill workshops for K-12 students covering subjects like public speaking, focus, time management, and feedback skills (interactive and project-driven, never lecture-based)
• Conducting daily motivation sessions where you engage individual students, assess their progress through adaptive learning platforms (leveraging Coachbot analytics), and challenge them to reach 100% of their weekly targets
• Administering mastery-based assessments (Test2Pass) to verify students have genuinely mastered each skill rather than simply completed activities

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• Developing authentic connections with each student so they trust your guidance through challenges, distractions, and moments of self-doubt
• Monitoring student performance against satisfaction metrics and goal achievement data, modifying your methods when outcomes don't meet standards
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Presenting traditional classroom lectures or providing conventional academic instruction (students master core subjects through independent adaptive applications, not through your teaching)
• Creating original lesson plans (Alpha supplies life skills curriculum and implementation guides; your responsibility is executing them with enthusiasm and narrative skill)
• Handling parent communications or administrative duties (Campus Leads manage those areas; you concentrate exclusively on student development)
• Evaluating homework or coordinating standardized test preparation (these don't exist in our model)
• Operating independently (you're integrated into a campus team alongside Lead Guides, Campus Leads, and colleagues who exchange feedback and maintain mutual accountability)
  
  

Consultant Key Responsibilities

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Guarantee that every student in your cohort develops a love for school, achieves mastery of critical life skills, and reaches 100% of their academic objectives through adaptive learning technology.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• 3+ years of direct experience working with K-8 students (through teaching, coaching, counseling, or youth program management)
• Commitment to on-site work at an Alpha campus in Denver, CO; Atlanta, GA; Nashville, TN; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City, UT (relocation assistance available)
• Availability to participate in a paid training program at Alpha's Austin, TX campus
• Legal work authorization in the United States without need for visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth development: athletic coaching, camp coordination, or youth program management where you held direct accountability for motivating children toward specific objectives
• Demonstrated history of personal achievement (academic distinctions, competitive sports, or leadership positions requiring sustained high performance)
• Innate storytelling skills: you can capture and maintain the attention of a group of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice

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• Proven ability to motivate disengaged or resistant students and convert them into engaged participants
  
  

About Alpha

Want to join a learning rebellion that’s transforming the traditional classroom?

Alpha School is on a mission to reshape education with a bold approach that harnesses AI to accelerate learning and unleash student potential.

They don’t play by the old rules.

Alpha is creating a new paradigm where students master core academics in just two hours a day, freeing up time for hands-on, passion-driven learning that truly prepares them for the real world.

Alpha School is rewriting the rules of education.

Sounds too good to be true? It’s not.

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-Atlanta-Consultant.063