Youth Program Assistant, Part-Time

About the Role

Alpha is hiring a Part-Time Youth Program Assistant for its Scottsdale, AZ campus. This role focuses on managing the operational layer of the classroom to support the Guide's instruction. The position offers a potential path to a full-time Guide role for successful candidates.

Key Responsibilities

• Supervising student transitions between activities (roughly 30% of your time), monitoring the clock, prompting students, and using positive reinforcement for orderly movement.
• Preparing classroom materials before each lesson by gathering supplies, organizing them, and confirming setup.
• Facilitating student engagement during structured activities (roughly 40% of your time) by monitoring participation, identifying disengagement, and redirecting students using Alpha-approved techniques without interrupting instruction.
• Owning the operational layer of the classroom, including ensuring transitions are on time, materials are ready, and student engagement is managed.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Standing back and waiting for things to go wrong; active presence and real-time decision-making are required.
• Designing lessons, writing activity plans, or being accountable for academic outcomes.
• Inventing your own approach to student behavior; Alpha's motivational techniques are defined and must be applied consistently.
• Managing facility tasks, carpool logistics, or after-hours events.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• On-site work at Alpha Schools, Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ.
• Willingness to work a minimum of 10 hours per week, with flexibility to choose schedules between Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–4:00 PM.
• Experience working with children ages 5–14 in a structured setting (e.g., school, camp, childcare, tutoring, coaching).
• Ability to coordinate people, materials, and activities quickly and effectively.
• Kid-friendly and comfortable redirecting children using encouragement.
• Legal right to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship.
• Alpha-approved motivational techniques (positive reinforcement, structured prompts, real-time redirection) are to be applied consistently.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Previous experience in roles such as: camp counselor, classroom aide, teacher's aide, paraprofessional, youth sports coach, or after-school program staff.
• Experience in a mastery-based, competency-based, or structured learning program (e.g., Montessori, project-based learning).
• Track record of keeping groups on schedule using positive redirection.

Compensation

• $30/hr
• 15–30 hrs/week
• Potential for a full-time path at $60,000/year + benefits.
• Paid weekly.

About Alpha

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills. They build school around student growth.