Youth Counselor, Alpha - An Edu Startup - $60,000/Year Usd

Crossover is the world's #1 source of full-time remote jobs. Our clients offer top-tier pay for top-tier talent. We're recruiting this role for our client, Alpha - an EDU Startup. Have you got what it takes?

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is an in-person role at our Austin, TX campus.

Inspire a love for learning in K-8 students at Alpha!

Are you passionate about working with young students and sparking their enthusiasm for learning? Alpha is seeking dedicated individuals to join our team, working with students in grades K-8. This entry-level position offers an incredible opportunity to make a positive impact on the educational journey of young learners.

Alpha School is anything but ordinary. We've created an innovative learning environment that encourages exploration, creativity, and self-paced growth. You'll have the chance to connect with students on a peer level, inspiring them to discover their full potential and develop a lifelong love for learning.

What You Will Be Doing

• Live workshops: One-hour sessions with K-8th grade students, coaching them on valuable life skills like public speaking, focus, and giving and receiving feedback
• Motivation sessions: Encouraging students to advance in their academic apps and achieve their learning goals

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Leading traditional lectures that students find boring or lack interaction.
• Pushing kids to the point of burnout or disengagement.
• Teaching or tutoring. Students learn solely from self-guided, adaptive learning apps.

Youth Counselor Key Responsibilities

Follow our time-tested playbooks to ensure that:

• 100% of students love school
• 100% of students achieve their academic goals
• 100% of students master core life skills, as measured by real-world challenges

Basic Requirements

• College degree in any subject
• Legal right to work in the US without visa sponsorship
• Desire to spend your day motivating and coaching K-8 students
• Willingness to relocate to Austin, TX

About Alpha - An EDU Startup

Want to build better schools? Join the thriving community of Alpha. Alpha is a network of K-12 schools in Texas committed to redefining the way kids learn. Change starts with our three promises to students:

• Students learn life skills.
• Students learn two times faster than in a traditional school.
• Students love school.

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 Crossover

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. The compensation level for this role is $30 USD/hour, which equates to $60,000 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.

What to expect next:

• You will receive an email with a link to start your self-paced, online job application.
• Our hiring platform will guide you through a series of online “screening” assessments to check for basic job fit, job-related skills, and finally a few real-world job-specific assignments.

Important! If you do not receive an email from us:

• Third, we will send to whatever email account you indicated on the Apply form - by default, that is the email address you use as your LinkedIn username and it might be different than the one you have already checked.
• Second, check your spam and junk folders for an email from Crossover.com, mark as “Not Spam” since you will receive other emails as well.
• If all else fails, just reset your password by visiting https://www.crossover.com/auth/password-recovery if you already applied using LinkedIn EasyApply.
• First, emails may take up to 15 minutes to send, refresh and check again.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-4845-US-Minneapo-YouthCounselor.022