Teaching Assistant

Crossover is the world's #1 source of remote jobs. Our clients offer top-tier pay for top-tier talent. We're recruiting this role for our client, Alpha. Have you got what it takes?

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a part-time, in-person role located at our campuses in Austin and Brownsville, Texas.

Join the most innovative school in the world and help shape the future of education! We're seeking passionate individuals to support our revolutionary learning model part-time in Austin.

In this position, you'll play a crucial part in empowering students and facilitating their journey to academic and personal success. You'll work in a dynamic, tech-driven educational environment to support our Guides in delivering our three promises to students: ensuring academic success, fostering life skills development, and nurturing a love for learning.

You'll love this job if you're passionate about innovative, tech-driven learning environments and enjoy a collaborative, support-focused role. If you thrive in dynamic, fast-paced settings and want to be part of revolutionizing education, we want to hear from you!

Apply now to join us in Austin, or Brownsville and help us empower the next generation of learners!

What You Will Be Doing

• Assisting in preparing and setting up materials, equipment, and learning environments for workshops and academic sessions
• Providing logistical, operational, and technical support to ensure smooth and efficient operations
• Facilitating and monitoring student participation, providing additional assistance to keep students engaged
• Coordinating schedules and managing transitions between sessions
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Providing direct emotional or motivational coaching to students (that's the Guide's role)
• Lecturing or delivering primary instruction
• Simply monitoring students on computers - we expect active engagement in supporting learning
  
  

Teaching Assistant Key Responsibilities

Provide effective support for Guides in delivering Alpha's 3 commitments to students: ensuring academic success, fostering life skills development, and nurturing a love for learning. This involves assisting with session preparation, facilitating student engagement, and maintaining a productive learning environment.

Basic Requirements

• Willingness to work in person at our Austin or Brownsville campus
• Ability to commit to a regular part-time schedule of at least 10 hours per week, Monday through Friday, between 8 am - 4 pm during the school year (up to 30 hours available)
• Currently enrolled in college or previously completed some college coursework
• Experience working with kids and supporting educational staff (e.g. teaching assistant, camp counselor)
• Strong organizational and communication skills
• Technical troubleshooting abilities
• Adaptable problem-solving mindset
• Kid-friendly personality with excellent interpersonal skills
• Legal right to work in the US without visa sponsorship
  
  

About Alpha

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

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 part-time (15 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 $15 USD/hour, which equates to $11,250 USD/year assuming 15 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

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

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

• First, emails may take up to 15 minutes to send, refresh and check again.
• 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.
• 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.
  
  

Crossover Job Code: LJ-5414-US-Brownsvi-TeachingAssist.004