Job description

Music & Program Director

Riverside Arts Academy

• Salary & Benefits: Full time, exempt, $68000-$70,000 annually; 14 days vacation
• Reports to: Executive Director
• Compensation: Annual Salary + Benefit Package (health insurance, expense reimbursement)
• Start Date: January 1, 2023. Position is full time and includes work on Saturday mornings and evenings for events.
• Note: If you would be interested as either a part-time Music Director or part-time Program Director, we may consider a split position. Please apply and indicate this preference.

Overview: Riverside Arts Academy is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that uses primary music as an instrument for social transformation, empowering children to acquire values and achieve their full potential, positively affecting their society through the study and performance of music. Riverside Arts Academy's vision is to create opportunity and access through music for those most in need, improve the quality of life for children today and ultimately transform their lives, the lives of their families, and their communities. Emerging as a model for music education programs nationally, Riverside Arts offers free-of-charge, after-school programming to all students with no barriers to entry, regardless of race or economic status.

The Riverside Arts Academy is housed at the Cesar Chavez Community Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, with classes taking place there, at other community centers across the city and additionally at select elementary schools in the Riverside Unified School District (specifically Beatty, Bryant, Longfellow, and Highgrove in 2018-19), and select schools in the Alvord Unified School District.

Designed as an intensive, low cost or tuition-free, after-school community and Saturday music program. Riverside Arts Academy provides hundreds of children from Riverside communities with most untapped potential with a fully integrated music curriculum, high quality musical training, and opportunities for leadership and social development. The program builds the transferable practical skills needed to improve academic motivation, classroom success and social preparedness, and creates new avenues of cultural awareness. Ultimately, by enriching the lives of individual children and creating orchestras including Mariachi, the program seeks to create social change within the communities served. More at: Riversideartsacademy.com.

Position Summary:

Reporting to the Executive Director, the Music & Program Director serves as the head of the organization’s educational programming and carries out the implementation of its curriculum with a clear eye toward musical and non-musical, social outcomes.

The Music & Program Director will help recruit and oversee the programming staff and the team of Teaching Artists and their professional development; oversee the performance season; cultivate educational and artistic aspects of organization’s programming partnerships and administer the inventory of programming resources including the musical instruments and equipment. The Music & Program Director will uphold Riverside Arts Academy mission, vision, and core values, and the ideals of the El Sistema philosophy, in order to create an encouraging environment in which staff, teachers, students, and families thrive. This is a two-part role that requires equal attention on fostering a high-quality music experience for students as Music Director, while also seeing the full picture as Program Director who envisions and executes and recruits to create strong experience for our beginning students as well.

Music Director Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships between Community ,higher educational institutions,school district music programs to gain trust and a collaborative approach with higher level students.
• Oversee student musical and social learning progress and provide musical support, direction and supervision for instructors and students enrolled in the music all Academy classes (e.g., Brass, Winds, Strings, Choir).
• Envision a cohesive music curriculum across all programs and ensembles.
• Remain involved with all ensembles under the RAA and once established, assume duties as principal conductor of the Riverside Arts Academy Youth Orchestra, and give student directions.
• Serve as the principal conductor of the Riverside Arts Academy Youth Orchestra, and oversee all ensembles under RAA
• Oversee teaching artist staff, monitor their success, and provide positive and constructive feedback to all teaching artists
• Submit an Accountability plan for the organization with timeline, expectations, and priorities, and how to measure musical success of students.

Program Director Responsibilities

• Oversee development of RAA program curriculum of RAA in conjunction with Curriculum Director and Board representatives prior to the start of the program.
• Build up and foster high numbers of students for beginning level programs, including working with school sites, visiting in-school music classes, and recruiting students at community and school events.
• Work collaboratively with staff, and oversee logistical needs
• Communicate clearly, effectively, and transparently to be a guiding resource for the organization on curriculum and musical direction. Assist in the design of program improvements, new programs, and expansion to new sites
• Ensure all programs, teaching artists and staff adhere to strict safety and supervision protocols.
• Build systems for feedback on program quality and progress from various stakeholders, and create accountability systems.
• Work collaboratively with the Executive Director to build/foster/create community partnerships
• Establish trust among parents and families
• Effectively Recruit Teaching Artists and communicate mission of RAA
• Other duties as assigned

Experience & Desired Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of professional experience in arts, education, or social service organizations, and a 4-year undergraduate degree.
• Significant experience as a musician and conductor, especially working with children. Experience working with/conducting beginning levels as well as advanced levels.
• Experience in collaborative program design and development coupled with a successful track record of sustainable implementation and execution of large-scale projects.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with demonstrable ability to effectively facilitate meetings, present publicly, and provide professional and appropriate information in written materials and other media.
• A warm, kind, collaborative, and trustworthy professional, who values relationships and people.
• Familiarity with standard desktop computer applications, excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Ability to work effectively with diverse personalities and populations (including socio-economically challenged children and families) and work cooperatively in a small, open workplace environment.
• Valid driver's license and acceptable driving record, successfully pass criminal background check. Must pass background checks and TB test prior to the start of work.

RIVERSIDE ARTS ACADEMY DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE ON THE BASIS OF RACE, COLOR, GENDER, RELIGION, NATIONAL ORIGIN, OR ETHNICITY IN STUDENT ADMISSIONS OR IN ANY PROGRAMS IT ADMINISTERS

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $68,000.00 - $70,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Health insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Riverside, CA 92501: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person

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