Camp Counselor, Alpha - $100,000/year USD at Crossover

• On-site position at the Alpha School campus in Brownsville, TX
• $100,000 annual W2 salary with weekly pay. Health benefits begin day one.
• Relocation assistance available for a one-school-year campus commitment

You've spent years coaching kids — not simply teaching them. You understand the distinction: a coach builds connection, issues challenges, and won't accept anything less than a student's full potential. A teacher transmits information. You've never been an information transmission system.

Alpha operates the most unconventional school you'll encounter. Students don't sit in rows listening to lectures. They progress through AI-powered learning applications at their own speed. AI manages the instructional material. Your responsibility is to facilitate life skills workshops that capture the attention of a K-8 classroom, conduct motivation sessions that drive them toward their weekly learning targets, and maintain standards when a student attempts to take shortcuts. The academic side runs itself. You manage the human dimension.

This role offers a ceiling worth pursuing, and that ceiling is greater student impact. Those who reliably achieve their metrics (100% of cohort reaching weekly app targets, 90%+ satisfaction ratings) advance into Lead Guide positions where they mentor other educators on improving this work. Students remain the focus.

The campus sits in Brownsville, adjacent to SpaceX's Starbase. If your motivation to leave your current position is the mission — transforming what a kid believes about their own capability — not the credential on your resume, submit your application.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life skills workshops with K-8 students on topics including public speaking, concentration, and giving and receiving feedback
• Administering Test2Pass mastery assessments following each workshop to verify students have authentically acquired the skill, not merely attended
• Conducting daily motivation sessions using student profiles, personal interests, and Coachbot analytics to ensure 100% of your cohort achieves their weekly app progression goals
• Employing storytelling, incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and individual relationships to overcome student resistance
• Monitoring cohort satisfaction ratings toward a 90%+ benchmark on student surveys

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Standing at a whiteboard and lecturing. Students progress academically through self-paced AI-powered applications, not through direct instruction from you.
• Babysitting. Kids using computers is the environment; active engagement is the work.
• Compromising standards when students resist. Test2Pass requirements remain firm, regardless of whether a student is experiencing a difficult week.
• Creating curriculum from the ground up. Lesson plans and workshop frameworks are supplied; your responsibility is to execute them with the presence and storytelling ability that ensures students genuinely absorb the content.
• Handling parent communications, conducting admissions processes, or supervising campus operations. Those belong to a different position.

Camp Counselor Key Responsibilities

Guide a cohort of K-8 students to achieve 100% of their weekly academic targets while facilitating life skills workshops with 90%+ satisfaction ratings.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any subject
• Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 (elementary and middle school) students
• Strong storytelling and facilitation presence — capable of maintaining a room of children engaged for an hour
• Willing to work on-site at the Alpha campus in Brownsville, TX
• Legal authorization to work in the US without visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience as an athletic coach, camp counselor, or youth program facilitator
• Demonstrated history of high performance in a competitive setting (academic, athletic, or professional)
• Experience in a self-directed or app-based learning environment

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-5234-US-Brownsvi-CampCounselor