Orchestra Teacher (Part-Time) for the 2024-2025 School Year
General Information
Job Title:
Orchestra Teacher (Part-Time) for the 2024-2025 School Year
Job Description:
As a mission-driven school, faculty members play a central role in fulfilling our mission. Hired by and subject to the supervision of the Director of the Rhetoric School (grades 9-12), the Orchestra Teacher is an exempt position. There are currently two orchestras in the music program: Dialectic School (grades 7 & 8) and Rhetoric School (grades 9-12). There are also cocurricular orchestra programs that meet before or after school: Philharmonia (beginning), and Chamber (intermediate/advanced). The Orchestra Teacher will be responsible for posting lesson plans, tracking progress, and communicating with parents.
The performance expectations of the Orchestra Teacher include large seasonal concerts (Lessons and Carols and Spring Concert), bi-annual String Showcases, chapel services, occasional assembly performances, and end-of-year closing ceremonies. The Orchestra Teacher is responsible for all planning, communication, and publicity for the String Showcase and will collaborate with the Music Director, Grammar School Music Teachers, Advancement Office, and Lead Teachers for other smaller performances throughout the school year.
This position is presented here as a part-time teaching position. Other work opportunities may be available for those seeking full-time employment.
Position Qualifications:
Essential Duties
Specific Job Responsibilities:
- Direct and build the orchestra program
- Run the Orchestra program which includes weekly rehearsals, literature selection, seasonal performances, and growth/recruitment.
- Instrument inventory management and rental, instrumental library cataloguing and maintenance.
Other Job Requirements:
The following requirements are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of the Orchestra Teacher position and are not intended to be inclusive. Reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, as defined by law, to perform any essential functions.
- Lift 20 lbs. occasionally and 10 lbs. frequently
- Sit frequently and stand and walk on varied surfaces
- Bend, stoop, crouch, push, pull, climb, balance, kneel, crawl
- Use hands/arms to reach in any direction and seize, grasp, hold, and turn objects using hand(s). Use fingers, versus the whole hand, to pick, pinch, and feel objects.
- See, talk, and hear to communicate with others in person, electronically, by phone, or by radio. Visual functions include the ability to identify and distinguish colors and bring an object into sharp focus.
Personal Profile
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Has a bachelor's degree in music education or elementary music education.
- Is proficient in strings, guitar, piano, and voice.
- Has 3+ years teaching experience.
- Has experience teaching music in a Christian classical school.
- Enjoys teaching children and can set developmentally appropriate expectations for learning and behavior.
- Can instruct, develop, manage and grow the orchestra program.
- Is active in local music/music educator organizations.
- Demonstrates an understanding of and skill in implementing classical curriculum and pedagogy and seeks to grow in his/her understanding of this tradition in order to re-imagine and embody the richest practices of Christian, liberal arts education.
Intrinsic Qualities:
- Ascribes to and agrees to live in accordance with The Geneva School's statement of faith
- Holds oneself to a high standard of honesty and integrity
- Able to work effectively both in collaboration with other professionals and on own initiative
- Professional and approachable in appearance and attitude
- Willingness to learn new skills
- Self-motivated with a positive ‘can do' approach to work
- Reliable/dependable
- Detail-oriented
- Able to search for solutions
- Practices good stewardship of the school's resources
- Enjoys working around children and is able to form and monitor appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with children and young people.
Application Deadline
06/17/2024
Job Type:
Part Time
Salary Range:
TBD
General Information
Church/Organization Name
The Geneva School
Contact Name & Contact Info
(321) 422-0228
Industry
Education/Training
Denomination
Not Applicable
City, State
Casselberry, FL
Description of Organization
The Geneva School is a mission-driven school established in 1993. Our mission is to provide students in grades K4–12 an extraordinary education, by means of an integrated curriculum, pedagogy and culture, both distinctly classical and distinctively Christian, that pursues goodness, truth, and beauty in all spheres of life, while viewing these spheres as elements of divinely ordered whole. Further, Geneva seeks to instill in students a desire to love beauty, think deeply, and pursue Christ's calling.
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Church Name: The Geneva School
Location: Casselberry, FL
Website:
Denomination: Non-Denominational
Job Type: Part-time
Role: Christian Education
Salary: TBD
Date Posted: 6 months ago
Location: Casselberry, FL
Website:
Denomination: Non-Denominational
Job Type: Part-time
Role: Christian Education
Salary: TBD
Date Posted: 6 months ago