Youth Development Specialist, Gt.school (Remote) - $100,000/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, gt.school. Have you got what it takes?

Are you a brilliant college student looking for a job where you get to make a difference? Do you enjoy working with kids? Do you want to help the next generation of young people become the success story of their dreams?

We’re looking for high-performing individuals who understand that students have unlimited potential and that success is the combination of hard work, discipline, and consistency.

GT School is an innovative start-up in the education sector. We firmly believe that the mindset and habits that make successful athletes are the same traits that make successful people.

In this role, you will virtually connect with gifted and talented students and foster their academic achievement. In addition, you will be a role model who shares personal experiences to instill life skills in students.

GT School is building an online community focusing on the most underserved customer base in US education - Gifted & Talented kids. GT School utilizes a winning combination of technology, coaching, and community to deliver motivation by the boatload. We equip students with the mindset and habits to achieve their potential.

If getting to work with kids, using your background in rigorous academic programs, and talking about goals and motivation every day sounds too good to be true, it's because this remote coaching job was designed for someone like you. We would love to have you join our team of like-minded coaches today!

What You Will Be Doing

• Developing common interests by learning about what kids love
• Running our Life Skills Boot Camp with cohorts of students entering the program
• Collaborating with other coaches to continuously upgrade our curriculum and coaching strategies
• Conducting 1:1 calls and group calls with students over Zoom to motivate and coach students (working around their schedule in North American time zones)
• Using adaptive technology to understand better where a student is at in their academics and how they can improve
• Fostering accountability through positive feedback and connection, not authority

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Supervising students as an authority figure or “managing” students
• Teaching math, grammar, science, or any academic material
• Spending time with students without a clear purpose
• Setting a low bar for what students can achieve

Youth Development Specialist Key Responsibilities

• Creating a relationship with students based on trust and a personal connection; students need to want to talk with you, not dread it
• Sharing the life skills gained through personal sports experiences to help cultivate ownership, confidence, and positive habits
• Delivering motivation and inspiration based on positive feedback and student-led conversations
• Maintaining a VERY high standard of excellence
• Motivating students to their full potential through encouragement, guiding them to success, and celebrating their accomplishments

Basic Requirements

• Candidates must be able to pass a criminal background check
• 1+ years of experience working with kids ages 11 - 17
• College degree from a Top 25 US university or college

About Gt.school

gt.school is a stealth EdTech startup in Austin, Texas, the center of educational innovation in the US. Our unique approach leverages 50+ years of learning science, cutting-edge data analytics and high-performance life skills coaching. In doing so, we can help students learn 5x faster and unlock their full potential in both academics and in life. We are a remote-first company that hires globally via Crossover.

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 $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.

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:

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

Crossover Job Code: LJ-4562-US-Seattle-YouthDevelopme.001