Job Description
IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a hybrid role that requires physical presence in Arizona.
What if your role focused on keeping students motivated, engaged, and eager to participate—with no lesson planning, grading, or academic instruction involved?
This position is designed for individuals who connect naturally with young people and excel in dynamic environments. At Unbound Academy's entirely virtual, tuition-free charter school, students advance rapidly through academic content using AI-powered tools, then participate in live, interactive workshop sessions centered on life skills, teamwork, and personal growth. Your responsibility is to ensure these sessions flow seamlessly and create positive experiences for every student.
You'll serve as the glue that holds the experience together. You'll facilitate smooth transitions, guide small group activities, maintain high energy, and provide support when students need reassurance or direction. Content delivery isn't your role—but the experience falls apart without you.
If you've worked with youth in camps, after-school settings, athletics, tutoring, or youth leadership programs—and you're drawn to a hybrid position combining virtual engagement with in-person teamwork—this is an opportunity to make school feel genuinely human once more.
What You Will Be Doing
• Facilitating live virtual workshop sessions by overseeing breakout rooms, managing transitions, monitoring pacing, and maintaining group dynamics
• Promoting student participation via chat messages, verbal recognition, gentle prompts, and one-on-one student interactions
• Ensuring students remain engaged, self-assured, and socially connected throughout their learning day
• Supporting lead educators with operational logistics that enable sessions to function seamlessly
• Serving as a dependable, familiar presence within student clubs and life-skills programming
What You Won’t Be Doing
• Instructing academic subjects or presenting educational content
• Developing lesson plans, evaluating student work, or conducting academic assessments
• Building curriculum or facilitating workshops without supervision
• Remaining passive or uninvolved—this is a hands-on, dynamic position
Online Youth Mentor Key Responsibilities
Facilitate engaging, virtual learning environments by keeping students organized, motivated, and actively involved throughout every workshop session.
Basic Requirements
• Available to start immediately or at the end of July (one of the two).
• At least 1 years of experience mentoring, coaching, tutoring, or leading youth
• Educational background within U.S., Canadian, or U.K. school systems (K–16); must have attended school in one of these countries
• Energizing, student-first presence with strong attention to detail
• Willing to work in a hybrid role in Arizona.
About Unbound Academy
Unbound Academy is Arizona’s first virtual, tuition-free charter school, designed to make grades 4-8 limitless, personal, and exciting. This isn’t just an alternative to the traditional school system. It’s a revolutionary way for your family to reclaim time, unlock potential, and reimagine what education can be.
At Unbound Academy, students can master their core academics in just two hours a day. Our teachers use an AI-powered learning model to adjust to each child’s pace and interests, ensuring progress happens twice as fast as in a typical classroom.
By cutting out the fluff and streamlining coursework, we not only make a significant academic impact—we make learning fun, personal, and incredibly effective.
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 $20 USD/hour, which equates to $40,000 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-5635-US-Phoenix-OnlineYouthMen.009
