Overview
Youth Development Specialist, Alpha – $100,000/year USD Jobs in Houston, TX at Crossover
Title: Youth Development Specialist, Alpha – $100,000/year USD
Company: Crossover
Location: Houston, TX
- On-site at one of three Houston, TX campuses: Central Houston, South Houston, or The Woodlands (relocation assistance available)
- $100,000 annual compensation, distributed weekly. Full health, dental, and vision coverage begins day one
The kindest thing you can do for a student who reaches 99% of their target is to refuse to settle. If that principle troubles you, this position won't be a fit. If it energizes you—because you understand that maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate genuine belief in a student's potential—continue reading.
Alpha operates differently than conventional schools. Through adaptive software, students complete a full academic day in approximately two hours. No classroom lectures. No printed textbooks. Your role centers on what technology cannot replicate: guiding Pre-K through 8th grade students in developing life competencies including public speaking, sustained attention, and constructive feedback exchange. You'll spend half your time facilitating interactive workshops built around structured frameworks and narrative techniques. The remaining hours involve one-on-one or small-group sessions where you analyze student performance in adaptive platforms via Coachbot analytics and challenge them to reach 100% of weekly objectives. Mastery verification happens through Test2Pass evaluations, not effort-based grades.
Your first year centers on managing a student cohort while becoming fluent in Alpha's methodology: life competency workshops, motivational coaching, mastery-based evaluation. Once you demonstrate consistent ability to guide every student toward 100% goal completion while maintaining satisfaction ratings above 90%, advancement to Lead Guide becomes available—a role combining direct student work with peer coaching. Top performers in this position don't merely transform individual trajectories; they influence entire campus cultures.
If you've accumulated years coaching, counseling, or mentoring young people while wishing you could eliminate traditional instruction and concentrate exclusively on developmental growth, this opportunity deserves your attention.
What You Will Be Doing
- Facilitating hour-long life competency workshops for Pre-K through 8th grade students covering public speaking, concentration, teamwork, and feedback dynamics (experiential and application-focused)
- Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching sessions where you examine each student's adaptive learning platform performance (via Coachbot analytics), establish objectives, and challenge them toward 100% weekly completion
- Overseeing and scoring Test2Pass evaluations to verify genuine life skill mastery rather than simple attendance
- Adjusting your coaching approach across developmental stages, from Pre-K learners requiring physical activity and enthusiasm to 8th graders needing direct conversations and personal accountability
- Cultivating authentic connections with individual students so they trust you sufficiently to accept guidance through obstacles, distractions, and uncertainty
What You Won’t Be Doing
- Presenting lectures or providing traditional subject-matter instruction (core academics happen through adaptive platforms, independent of your involvement)
- Creating original lesson plans or curriculum materials (Alpha supplies life competency frameworks; your responsibility is animating them through presence and narrative)
- Handling family communications or administrative operations (Campus Leads manage those functions; your attention remains on students)
- Evaluating assignments or preparing for standardized examinations (neither exists in this environment)
- Operating independently (you function within a campus team including Lead Guides, Campus Leads, and colleagues who exchange feedback and maintain mutual accountability)
Youth Development Specialist Key Responsibilities
Guarantee that every student within your cohort develops genuine enthusiasm for learning, achieves mastery in fundamental life competencies, and reaches 100% of their academic objectives through adaptive learning technology.
Basic Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in any discipline
- 3+ years working directly with Pre-K through 8th grade students (in teaching, coaching, counseling, or youth program leadership capacities)
- Demonstrated experience motivating or coaching Pre-K through 8th grade students toward academic, behavioral, or extracurricular objectives, with at least one concrete example you can articulate (including the objective, your approach, and the result)
- Regular use of generative AI platforms (such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
- Available to work on-site at Alpha's Central Houston, South Houston, or The Woodlands campus (relocation assistance provided)
- Authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship
Nice-to-have Requirements
- Background in youth sports coaching, summer camp leadership, or after-school programming where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward measurable goals
- History of significant personal accomplishment (academic recognition, competitive sports, or leadership positions requiring sustained high performance)
- Innate narrative skill: you can maintain the focus of a room full of 12-year-olds for an hour without volume escalation
- Success re-engaging disinterested or reluctant students and converting them into willing participants
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 $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.
Crossover Job Code: LJ-5767-US-Houston-YouthDevelopme.005
