Youth Mentor, Alpha - $100,000/year USD
Crossover•Carrollton, TX
fulltime
Business Development, Education, and Engineering
3+ years
The most caring thing you can offer a student who reaches 99% of their target is to refuse to settle. If that expectation feels uncomfortable, this position may not suit you. If it energizes you—because you understand that maintaining high standards demonstrates your belief in a student's capability—continue reading.
Alpha operates differently from conventional schools. Students complete a full day's worth of academic content in approximately two hours using adaptive software. No traditional lectures. No textbooks. Your responsibility centers on what technology cannot replicate: guiding young people through essential life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback exchange. You'll facilitate hands-on workshops, inspire students to exceed their learning targets, and develop relationships that transform a reserved fourth grader into someone who presents confidently before adult audiences.
This position grows with you. During your first year, you'll guide a small student cohort and become fluent in Alpha's methodology: life skill workshops, motivation coaching, mastery-based evaluation. Once you demonstrate the ability to hold every student accountable to 100% goal achievement while maintaining satisfaction ratings above 90%, opportunities open toward Lead Guide, where you'll mentor a team while remaining directly engaged with students. The most effective people in this role don't simply transform individual trajectories; they influence how an entire campus functions.
Traditional schools don't offer this. If you've been coaching, counseling, or mentoring young people and wishing you could eliminate instructional teaching to focus purely on their development, this is that opportunity.
What You Will Be Doing
What You Won’t Be Doing
Youth Mentor Key Responsibilities Guarantee that every student in your cohort develops a love for learning, achieves mastery of critical life skills, and completes 100% of their academic objectives through adaptive learning technology.
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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-4415-US-Carrollt-YouthMentor.001