Position Overview
Music for Minors seeks qualified and experienced individuals to deliver weekly music lessons to TK – 6th grade students in the California Bay Area. Educators will travel to multiple school sites per week to teach in-person music classes using MFM-provided curriculum and instrument kits. Successful educators possess strong classroom management skills, experience with a variety of student age and ability levels, a musical background, and a love of working with children.
Position: General Music Teacher
Reports to: General Program Manager
Classification: Part Time
Work Hours: Up to 25 hours/week during normal school hours. Hours based on educator availability and school openings.
Scheduling: 2-5 days/week. Scheduling flexible.
Work Location: Primarily in-person at school sites. 2-4 online cohort meetings with Program Manager per month. Sites across the California Bay Area, including:
- North Peninsula (South San Francisco, Daly City)
- Half Moon Bay
- Peninsula (San Mateo, San Carlos, Redwood City)
- South Bay (San Jose)
Compensation
- $42/hour starting rate
- Paid training and professional development
- Paid weekly planning time
- Paid cohort meetings
- Paid sick time
- Eligible for 401(k) plan after 12 months of employment
Dates
This position is for the 24-25 school year.
- Employment Start: August 26, 2024
- Fall Training: August 26 – 29, 2024
- Classes Start: Week of September 9, 2024
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
In The Classroom
- Administer weekly music classes at school sites (30-45 minute class durations)
- Use MFM-provided curriculum and instrument kits for at least 85% of each lesson (scope and sequence available here)
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with classroom teachers and school administration
- Follow MFM policies and procedures
- Promote a love a of music in all students
Other Responsibilities
- Use paid planning time to prepare lessons each week
- Participate in paid online cohort meetings
- Check MFM-provided email regularly
- Track number of lessons taught at each school site
- Communicate all absences and schedule changes with Program Manager
- Attend Fall Training in August
Qualifications
- 2+ years teaching experience preferred
- Experience as a vocalist or instrumentalist
- Comfortable singing songs with a class
- Skilled in classroom management
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Energetic, flexible, patient, and enthusiastic
- Love of working with elementary school children
- Background check & TB clearance
- Passion for Music for Minors mission
Physical Demands
- Ability to lead energetic locomotor and non-locomotor motions with students
- Ability to transport curriculum resources between classrooms on school site using MFM-provided cart or other method
Work Environment
- Work primarily performed at school sites with a wide variety of sounds, noises, and temperature environments
Travel Requirements
- Travel required to school sites on assigned teaching days. Periodic travel to MFM office.
- Average travel is within 20 miles of educator home location. Further travel only assigned based upon mutual agreement.
About Music for Minors
Music for Minors is a nonprofit with close to 50 years of expertise in elementary school music education. Our mission is to nurture in children a lifelong love of music. Operating in the San Francisco Bay Area, our services provide over 20,000 students in transitional kindergarten through sixth grade with a program of diverse, high-quality musical experiences that is:
- Engaging and participatory
- Based on state music education standards
- A foundation for further choral and instrumental music education
- Cost-effective (regardless of district/school resources)
The MFM curriculum is sequential, standards-based and culturally diverse and includes visual aids, props, and instruments. Lesson elements offer singing, listening, reading, theory, movement, dancing, and playing rhythm instruments and recorders.
To address the continual disparity in access to necessary programs in marginalized communities, MFM commits to an organizational priority of at least 50% of our reach in targeted regions of need. In addition, by nature of our program delivery, MFM provides training, professional development, and jobs to a growing number of teaching artists around the Bay Area, contributing to the overall creative economy.
With three-fold service growth in the past decade, MFM boasts the reassurance that quality and affordable solutions for music education can be met.
To Apply
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All applications and inquiries will receive a response and be kept strictly confidential. Music for Minors is an Equal Opportunity Employer.