Mentor Juvenil, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

• On-site position at Alpha School's campus in Dorado, Puerto Rico
• $100,000 annually ($50/hour, 40 hours/week), with weekly pay
• Formal teaching certification not required; Spanish fluency is beneficial

The most meaningful support you can offer a student who achieves 99% of their target is to insist they reach 100%. If that principle makes you uneasy, this position is not the right fit. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards demonstrates your belief in a child's capacity to meet them, continue reading.

Alpha School operates on a 2 Hour Learning framework: students in grades K-8 complete a full day's worth of academics in approximately two hours using adaptive learning applications. No lectures. No textbooks. Your responsibility is what the software cannot provide — guiding children through essential life skills including public speaking, concentration, collaboration, and the ability to give and receive constructive feedback.

Approximately 60% of your time will focus on individual motivation: reviewing learning app dashboards and Coachbot analytics, identifying where a third-grader is struggling with fractions or a fifth-grader is resisting reading assignments, and helping them overcome these obstacles. The remaining 40% involves facilitating interactive, hour-long workshops that resemble improv practice sessions more than traditional classroom instruction. Every student must demonstrate mastery via Test2Pass assessments before progression.

This position offers clear advancement. You'll manage a small cohort and become proficient in Alpha's methodology during your first year. Demonstrate that you can guide every student to 100% goal attainment while maintaining strong satisfaction metrics, and opportunities open for Lead Guide, then Campus Lead (where you oversee an entire school). You'll witness a child who avoided eye contact in September confidently present to a room full of parents by spring.

Apply if you believe that seating 30 children in rows to listen to one adult underutilizes what children are capable of achieving.

What You Will Be Doing

• Guiding K-8 students individually and in small groups through adaptive learning applications, leveraging Coachbot analytics and dashboards to identify learning obstacles
• Implementing Alpha's motivation system (leaderboards, incentive structures, weekly goal-setting sessions) to ensure every student progresses at the expected rate
• Facilitating hour-long, experiential life-skills workshops focused on public speaking, concentration, teamwork, and constructive feedback (project-driven and interactive, never lecture-based)
• Conducting Test2Pass mastery assessments and maintaining standards: students advance only after demonstrating genuine understanding
• Establishing trust with students so that rigorous accountability feels encouraging rather than punitive

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering lectures or traditional academic instruction (students master core subjects through adaptive apps, not direct teaching from you)
• Creating lesson plans from the ground up — Alpha supplies the curriculum and implementation guides; you execute them with enthusiasm and narrative skill
• Evaluating homework assignments or preparing students for standardized testing; these elements do not exist in this model
• Handling parent communications or school administrative duties — Campus Leads manage those areas, allowing you to concentrate on your cohort
• Passively monitoring children on devices; if you're not actively engaged in coaching, you're not fulfilling the role

Mentor Juvenil Key Responsibilities

Guide a cohort of K-8 students to achieve 100% of their academic and life-skills objectives.

Basic Requirements

• Available to work on-site at Alpha's Dorado, Puerto Rico campus
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• 3+ years of direct, hands-on experience working with K-8 (kindergarten through 8th grade) students via teaching, tutoring, youth programs, camps, or athletic coaching
• Demonstrated record of high personal achievement in academic, athletic, or professional contexts
• Legal authorization to work in the United States or Puerto Rico without requiring visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish for establishing connections with students and families in the Dorado community
• Background in coaching environments where elevated standards produced measurable results (competitive athletics, debate, performing arts, or selective youth programs)
• Experience leading youth workshops, summer camps, or after-school programs where you created the activities rather than simply supervising
• Knowledge of adaptive or app-based educational platforms (e.g., Khan Academy, IXL, DreamBox)

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-5758-PR-Guaynabo-MentorJuvenil.004