How to Apply:
Please complete your application by using the 23-24 Teaching Artist application at ymf.org/teaching-artist
Application Deadline: Open until filled
Teaching Artist
Since 1955, Young Musicians Foundation’s (YMF) mission has been to empower under-served students to find creativity, connection, and joy through music. YMF’s Teaching Artists are at the heart of our organization's mission by providing tuition-free weekly music instruction to students and community members. Through partnerships with under-resourced schools and community programs, our accessible and responsive approach to music instruction reaches students ages 4 to adult across the greater Los Angeles area, covering a 195-square-mile area.
Mission Statement:
To disrupt systems of inequity through healing-based music education, creative career pathways, and multigenerational community engagement.
Position Summary:
Reporting to the Community Programs Manager, the Music Tech Teaching Artist is responsible for teaching music tech/production at the YMF Center for Music and Creative Technologies (CMCT). Our YMF Teaching Artists ensure the highest-quality learning experience for our students by creating group lesson plans informed by social-emotional learning (SEL) and visual and performing arts (VAPA) standards. These lesson plans are highly engaging, build skills, are culturally affirming, and create a safe classroom environment that cultivates the holistic growth of students. This position will also collaborate with other CMCT Teaching Artists, staff, students, parents, and the surrounding community.
Hours:
This placement will occur on weekdays after school at the Center for Music and Creative Technology's music tech lab.
Compensation:
- $60 per hour for in-person teaching
- $20 per hour for professional development
- $35 per hour for concerts and program events as required
You are:
- A music producer/engineer experienced in working with students from diverse and/or underserved communities in a classroom or group setting
- Well-versed and able to teach music production and composition with the following programs: Ableton Live, Logic, and BandLab
- Able to challenge Eurocentric structures inherent in the music education system and actively explore traditional and modern intersections of music across cultural perspectives
- Knowledgeable of a variety of culturally responsive repertoire, curriculum, and pedagogy
- Experienced with classroom management and organizational techniques that emphasize a positive, anti-bias, and restorative justice approach to supporting students
- An effective communicator with excellent interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written) and have the ability to excel as part of a team
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintain a safe and nurturing environment for students
- Develop and facilitate lessons in music tech/production
- Track and maintain student attendance as required
- Create detailed substitute lesson plans and arrange for substitute coverage as needed
- Facilitate setup/cleanup of classrooms for lessons as needed
- Preparing students for a culminating project at the end of each term
- Additional duties as required
Desired Qualifications:
- Interest in personal growth as an artist educator within a community of like-minded, talented individuals
- Ability to differentiate instruction to address a variety of unique student learning styles
- Collaborative and flexible approach to teaching
- A four-year undergraduate degree holder in music/music education/music production and/or equivalent experience; post-graduate degree or equivalent experience a plus
- Bilingual in Spanish
Physical and Additional Requirements*:
- Communicate information clearly in what can be a loud environment
- The ability to discern and digest audio information accurately and effectively communicate a summarization of particulars so others will understand
- Access to reliable transportation in order to travel to teaching sites
- May need to occasionally move, set up, and adjust classroom or music equipment weighing up to 40 pounds
*We will provide any reasonable accommodations as required.
We encourage you to apply if this job sounds like a good fit for you, even if you don’t feel you meet all the qualifications/requirements. Folks who are queer, trans, non-binary, people of color, parents, are/have been system impacted, have different abilities, are immigrants, and anyone who has experienced systemic oppression and gender-based violence are encouraged to apply.
We highly value a diverse team and an equitable work environment where every member of our team is set up to thrive. In an effort to prioritize and maintain this environment, we have recently established an Equity, Diversity, Access, and Inclusion Committee that leads work to transform injustice within the organization and reviews our policies and practices for equity frequently. Additionally, we expect all team members to take responsibility for co-creating an equitable work community where everyone is able to do impactful, world-changing work.
For any questions or concerns, please reach out to [email protected].
Disclaimer
The Employer retains the right to change or assign other duties to this position.
Job Type: Contract
Pay: $20.00 - $60.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Flexible schedule
- Paid time off
Schedule:
- 4 hour shift
- After school
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekends as needed
Work setting:
Ability to Commute:
- Los Angeles, CA 90011 (Required)
Ability to Relocate:
- Los Angeles, CA 90011: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person
