Youth Program Director, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

You've built your career coaching young people — not merely instructing them. You understand the distinction: coaching means connecting, pushing boundaries, and holding students accountable to their potential. Teaching means delivering material. You've never seen yourself as a content pipeline.

Alpha operates one of the most non-traditional schools in existence. Students don't occupy desks while someone lectures. They progress through AI-driven learning platforms at individualized speeds. AI manages the academic instruction. Your role centers on facilitating life skills workshops that captivate K-8 students, conducting motivation sessions that drive weekly learning targets, and maintaining standards when students resist effort. The curriculum runs itself. You manage the human dimension.

This position offers a meaningful ceiling: expanded student impact. Those who reliably achieve metrics (100% cohort completion of weekly app goals, satisfaction scores above 90%) advance into Lead Guide positions where they mentor other educators in refining this approach. Students remain the focus.

The campus sits in Brownsville, adjacent to SpaceX's Starbase facility. If your motivation for leaving your current position is the mission — transforming what a child believes is possible for themselves — rather than a credential for your CV, submit your application.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life skills workshops for K-8 students on topics including public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback exchange
• Administering Test2Pass mastery assessments following each workshop to verify students have internalized the skill, not simply attended
• Conducting daily motivation sessions that leverage student profiles, personal interests, and Coachbot analytics to ensure 100% of your cohort meets weekly app progression goals
• Using narrative techniques, incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and individual rapport to overcome student reluctance
• Monitoring cohort satisfaction scores with a 90%+ benchmark on student surveys

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Lecturing from the front of a classroom. Academic advancement happens through self-directed AI-powered applications, not through your direct instruction.
• Supervising screen time passively. The environment involves technology; your work requires active engagement.
• Compromising standards when students resist. Test2Pass benchmarks remain firm, even during difficult weeks.
• Creating original curriculum content. Workshop frameworks and lesson plans are supplied; your responsibility is executing them with the presence and narrative ability that ensures genuine learning.
• Handling parent relations, admissions processes, or campus logistics. Those functions belong to separate roles.

Youth Program Director Key Responsibilities

Guide a cohort of K-8 students to achieve 100% of weekly academic targets while facilitating life skills workshops that maintain 90%+ satisfaction scores.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any field
• Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 (elementary and middle school) students
• Strong storytelling and facilitation skills — capable of maintaining a room of children's attention for an hour
• Ability to work on-site at the Alpha campus in Brownsville, TX
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience as an athletic coach, camp counselor, or youth program leader
• Demonstrated history of high achievement in competitive settings (academic, athletic, or professional)
• Familiarity with self-paced or app-based learning environments

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 for more details on this topic.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-5234-US-Brownsvi-YouthProgramDi.003