• On-campus position at an Alpha location: Atlanta, GA
• Oklahoma City, OK
• Tulsa, OK
• Austin, TX
• Keller (Fort Worth), TX
• The Woodlands (Houston), TX
• Park City (Salt Lake City), UT
• Toronto, Canada
• $150,000 annual W2 salary, weekly pay cycle. Health benefits begin on day one.
• Relocation assistance provided
  
  

The most impactful response to a student who scores 99% is informing them they haven't met the standard. If that statement makes you uncomfortable, this role isn't for you. If it resonates, continue reading.

Alpha students complete their academic learning in two hours daily using self-directed AI-powered applications. There are no teachers, no lectures, and no classroom subject instruction. This structure allows you to focus on work that genuinely shifts student outcomes: facilitating high-impact workshops on public speaking, concentration, and feedback culture; using live analytics to motivate students toward complete goal attainment; and developing the Guides who support your mission.

A typical morning might begin with coaching a Guide one-on-one, analyzing performance data to pinpoint where a cohort is underperforming. By midday, you're delivering a structured workshop to students—executing a playbook exercise on feedback exchange. Your afternoons transition to motivation work: engaging individual students, uncovering their intrinsic drivers, and applying Alpha's incentive framework to re-engage a reluctant middle schooler. You directly manage your own cohort, ensuring you maintain the same competencies you're developing in others.

You've likely been the outlier in traditional education: overly analytical, excessively focused on outcomes, too comfortable challenging conventional approaches to student development. Alpha may be the first environment that truly aligns. You'll begin coaching other Guides immediately, and as you produce measurable results across cohorts, your authority over campus-wide program standards expands.

Uphold the standard. Transform the student. Submit your application.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating hour-long structured workshops on life competencies (public speaking, concentration, feedback exchange) for K-8 cohorts, executing Alpha's established playbook with precision rather than personal interpretation
• Conducting motivation sessions leveraging student data and Alpha's incentive architecture (campus currency, performance leaderboards) to achieve 100% goal completion across your cohort
• Developing Guides on program adherence and standards enforcement, ensuring each coaching interaction yields specific, actionable improvements
• Managing your own student cohort while simultaneously cultivating Guide competency
• Monitoring student satisfaction metrics, goal achievement rates, and Guide performance indicators on a weekly basis to identify deterioration before it escalates
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering academic instruction or tutoring on subject matter. Academic learning happens through independent app-based work without direct adult supervision.
• Creating new curriculum or developing original lesson content. The playbook is established; success depends on execution fidelity, not creative variation.
• Training Guides on instructional pedagogy. Since Guides don't teach content, your coaching centers on energy management, student motivation, and accountability systems.
• Accepting 99% as passing when the standard is 100%. Maintaining the boundary demonstrates your confidence in their capability to reach it.
• Serving as the default emotional support figure. Students receive meaningful connection here, alongside direct feedback and genuine accountability.
  
  

Educational Consultant Key Responsibilities

Execute Alpha's three core commitments for every student in your cohort: they develop genuine enthusiasm for school, accelerate their learning to twice the pace of conventional classrooms, and acquire substantive life competencies.

Basic Requirements

• Available for on-campus work in Atlanta, GA; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Austin, TX; Keller (Fort Worth), TX; The Woodlands (Houston), TX; Park City (Salt Lake City), UT; or Toronto, Canada (relocation assistance available)
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or related discipline
• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in education, learning and development, coaching, youth leadership, or comparable domain
• Demonstrated history of managing a team of 5+ adults, including responsibility for recruitment and performance-based termination decisions
• Hands-on experience working with children ages 5-14 in educational or developmental contexts
• Record of building, launching, or substantially scaling a program, team, business, school, or initiative from inception
• Documented use of data and performance metrics to establish weekly objectives and inform decisions, beyond retrospective reporting
• Legal authorization to work in the United States or Canada
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Graduate degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or related field
• Background in athletics coaching, wilderness/experiential education, camp direction, or youth ministry at sufficient scale to require cohort management and outcome measurement
• Transitioned from classroom instruction to program development or operational leadership in EdTech, tutoring enterprises, youth-focused nonprofits, or school intervention initiatives
• Early-career record of exceptional individual performance—academic, athletic, or professional—prior to advancing into leadership roles
• Conviction that the existing education system is fundamentally inadequate and personal commitment to its transformation
  
  

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 $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-Nashvill-EducationalCon.032