Youth Development Specialist, Alpha School - $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 School. Have you got what it takes?

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is an in-person role located at our campuses in Austin & Brownsville, Texas.

Are you one of the 200,000 students per year who graduated with a liberal arts degree and a basket full of dreams, only to find yourself underpaid, underemployed, and underwhelmed? Does it feel like every HR rep in the country looks at your resume and asks: “How is your expertise in English Literature going to help my business?” On average, undergraduates expect to make $104k per year after graduating, but a liberal arts or humanities major will only net students a paltry $32-38k per year—barely enough to avoid moving back into your parents’ house.

If you graduated from an elite university just to find that your major is harshly undervalued by the job market, there’s a place for you at Alpha. We believe the skills that got you into and through a prestigious degree program (i.e. strong work ethic, focus, and the ability to hold yourself to a high standard of excellence) are valuable. For that reason alone, we’re willing to invest in you. If you want to break into the startup world but are worried that your background isn’t quite right, this is your opportunity.

Alpha is building the Stanford of K-12 education. We are a private equity-backed EdTech startup with a life-changing value proposition for students and plans to expand rapidly. We make three promises to students and their families: students will love school, students will learn 3-5x faster through the use of adaptive learning apps and learning science principles, and students will learn valuable life skills to supplement their academic training.

In this role, you will lead inspiring life skills workshops, guide students through a rigorous academic workload, and help them tap into their love of learning. Our students will benefit profoundly from their exposure to high academic achievers like you. By the end of the program, we will help you advance your career in the direction of your choice, whether at Alpha or beyond. You do not need any background in education to be considered for the role.

What You Will Be Doing

• Live workshops: One-hour sessions with K-12th 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

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

Youth Development Specialist Key Responsibilities

Follow our time-tested playbooks to ensure that:

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

Basic Requirements

• Willingness to relocate to Austin or Brownsville, TX
• Legal right to work in the US without visa sponsorship
• Desire to spend your day motivating and coaching K-12 students
• Graduated from a Top-20 undergraduate program in the US

About Alpha School

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

• 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.
• You will receive an email with a link to start your self-paced, online job application.

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

• 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.
• First, emails may take up to 15 minutes to send, refresh and check again.
• If all else fails, just reset your password by visiting https://www.crossover.com/auth/password-recovery if you already applied using LinkedIn EasyApply.
• 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.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-4845-US-Yonkers-YouthDevelopme.002