The greatest support you can offer a struggling 8-year-old is maintaining high expectations. If that statement makes you uneasy, this position is not for you. If it resonates, continue reading.

Alpha has dismantled conventional teaching methods. Academic learning occurs through adaptive applications at each student's individual pace. No classroom lectures. No limitations based on grade level. What remains—and what matters above all—is what technology cannot provide: the character development, the drive, and the adult presence that holds every student accountable to standards they believed were beyond their reach. That is your domain.

Your day might begin with coaching a Guide using their Coachbot analytics, identifying precisely where a cohort is underperforming. By midday you're facilitating a live workshop with K-8 students, executing a playbook activity on public speaking or constructive feedback. Afternoons transition to motivation sessions: reviewing individual student progress data, applying Alpha's incentive framework (school currency, leaderboards), and re-engaging a reluctant 7th grader. Forty percent workshops, thirty percent motivation, thirty percent coaching. You maintain your own student cohort throughout, ensuring your coaching remains rooted in direct practice.

You've likely been told you're overly results-oriented for the education sector. Too analytics-focused. Too willing to maintain boundaries that unsettle other educators. Alpha is designed precisely for that individual. You demonstrate the model's effectiveness through your own students, elevate the Guides (Alpha's teacher equivalent) around you to that same standard, and as you produce outcomes, your authority over campus-wide program quality expands.

Maintain the standard. Transform the student. Apply now.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour live workshops on character skills (public speaking, focus, giving and receiving feedback) for K-8 students, executing Alpha's playbook
• Conducting motivation sessions leveraging Coachbot analytics and Alpha's incentive framework (school currency, leaderboards) to achieve 100% student goal completion
• Coaching Guides on program adherence and standards enforcement, with each session generating specific improvement actions
• Managing your own student cohort to ensure your coaching remains anchored in direct experience
• Monitoring student satisfaction scores, goal completion rates, and Guide performance metrics weekly to identify underperformance promptly

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Teaching math, reading, or any academic content — adaptive apps manage all academic instruction
• Creating curriculum or designing workshop activities (Alpha's playbook is your framework; the standard is execution excellence)
• Coaching Guides on instructional technique (Guides don't teach — you're coaching energy, motivation, and accountability)
• Overseeing campus operations, budgets, or administrative logistics
• Lowering standards when a student is nearly there (the bar remains constant; your role is to help them reach it)

School Program Manager Key Responsibilities

• Fulfill Alpha's three commitments to every student: loving school, learning at twice the traditional pace, and developing real-world life skills.

Basic Requirements

• On-site in Toronto, Canada (not remote or hybrid)
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or a related field
• At least 5 years of experience in education, learning and development, coaching, or a related field
• Led a team of 5 or more people, including hiring and terminating based on performance outcomes
• Direct experience working with youth ages 5-14 in an educational or developmental setting
• Built, launched, or significantly grew a program, team, school, or initiative — not just inherited o