Youth Program Assistant, Part-Time, Alpha

About the Role

Alpha is hiring a Part-Time Youth Program Assistant for its Scottsdale campus. This role is focused on owning the operational layer of Alpha's compressed K-12 learning model, ensuring smooth classroom operations so Guides can focus on instruction. The role offers a full-time path at $60,000/year + benefits.

Key Responsibilities

• Supervising student transitions between activities (roughly 30% of your time): monitoring the clock, prompting students to move, and using positive reinforcement to keep movement orderly and on schedule.
• Preparing classroom materials before each lesson by gathering supplies, organizing them per the activity plan, and confirming setup matches the Guide's instructions before instruction begins.
• Facilitating student engagement during structured activities (roughly 40% of your time) by monitoring participation, identifying disengagement early, and redirecting students using Alpha-approved classroom management techniques without interrupting instruction.
• Monitoring the room and applying Alpha-approved motivational techniques (positive reinforcement, structured prompts, real-time redirection).
• Prepping each activity so the Guide can start immediately.
• Owning the operational layer, including transitions on time, materials ready before lessons, and student engagement managed before distractions become disruptions.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Designing lessons, writing activity plans, or being accountable for academic outcomes.
• Inventing your own approach to student behavior.
• Managing facility tasks, carpool logistics, or after-hours events.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Willing to work in person at our Scottsdale campus.
• Work a minimum of 10 hours per week, with flexibility to choose your schedule during school hours (Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM).
• Legal right to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship.
• Alpha-approved motivational techniques.
• Alpha-approved classroom management techniques.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children ages 5–14 in a structured setting (e.g., youth program, camp, childcare, school, tutoring, or coaching).
• Ability to coordinate people, materials, and activities quickly and effectively.
• Kid-friendly and comfortable redirecting children using encouragement.
• Hands-on group management experience with children in motion (e.g., camp counselor, youth program staff, classroom aide, teacher's aide, paraprofessional, youth sports coach, or after-school program staff) is a nice-to-have.
• Experience in a mastery-based, competency-based, or structured learning program (e.g., Montessori, project-based learning, or similar) is a nice-to-have.
• Track record of keeping groups on schedule using positive redirection.

Compensation & Hours

• $30/hr
• 15–30 hrs/week
• $30,000/year USD (assuming 20 hours per week and 50 weeks per year)
• Full-time path available at $60,000/year + benefits.
• Weekly payment period.
• Long-term position.
• Immediately available.
• Requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record.