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    Job Description:
    Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts Half Day Program


    JOB TITLE:
    Music Department Head - instrumental and Vocal


    NATURE AND SCOPE OF JOB:
    Department Head for Music is a 30 hour per week, ten month per year position.

    The Department Head serves as an educational leader, liaison to the Music faculty, responsible for creating, facilitating and managing the curriculum within their department.

    The Department Head monitors the execution of procedures to ensure that all students are supervised and challenged in a safe, just, creative and rigorous learning environment.


    Achieving artistic excellence requires that the Department Head work collaboratively with the Director and Leadership Team to direct and nurture all members of the department faculty and to communicate effectively with parents of the students in the department.


    The Music department focuses on:

    • Instrumentalist: jazz, pop and classical
    • Vocalist: jazz and pop (both contemporary and older pop)
    • Theory: levels 1, 2, 3 and jazz theory
    • Vocal and instrumental combos collaborating on jazz and pop

    JOB FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

    • Promote high standards and expectations for all students and staff for artistic performance and monitor responsibility for behavior, conduct mid-year and end-of-year evaluations for department faculty. Work with department faculty to set annual goals for professional development and to assign non-teaching responsibilities for the school year.
    • Coordinate and collaborate with fellow department heads and arts faculty to promote "whole school" community, including the facilitation of shared performances for departments and whole school community.
    • Collaborate with the Director, Leadership Team and departmental faculty to maintain and develop the program of studies and department curriculum, including the development of new courses, curation of field trips and co-curricular learning experiences, and recruitment of guest artists to supplement the core curriculum.
    • Manage and monitor budget for the department. Advise administration on department needs and recommend appropriate purchases. Monitor the balance of the Departmental Escrow account, coordinate and facilitate fundraising activities to support departmental programming not covered by the instructional budget.
    • Facilitate the creation of a schedule for faculty and students within the department, Facilitate the input of the schedule in scheduling program working closely with the Director and the Registrar for the Arts Academy.
    • Teach approximately 8 hours per week (approx. 4 courses), prepare syllabi and lesson plans, evaluate students and provide grade comments twice per year for each student in each course.
    • Supervise department programs, assisting arts faculty in the development of plans. Assist Director in observing classes on a regular basis to encourage the use of a variety of instructional strategies and materials consistent with research on arts learning and child growth and development.
    • Coordinate with fellow department Heads in maintaining a roster of qualified substitute teachers, and scheduling their services to cover the absence of departmental faculty.

    REQUIREMENTS:

    • Minimum requirement: BA/BFA (In Music preferred).
    • Expertise in music, teaching experience at high school level preferred, administrative experience a plus.
    • Eligibility for a Connecticut State Department of Education Adjunct Arts Instructor Permit required, requirements for permit eligibility: (1) hold a bachelor's degree from an institution of higher education accredited by the Board of Governors of Higher Education, or regionally accredited, (2) have a minimum of three years of work experience in the arts or one year of work and two years of specialized schooling related to the applicant's artistic specialty, and (3) at least one hundred eighty hours of cumulative experience working with children in a private or public setting, including, but not limit to, after-school programs, group lessons, children's theater, dance studio lessons, and artist-in-residence programs, or at least two years' experience as a full-time faculty member at an institution of higher education or been employed by an eligible inter-district magnet school prior to July 1,2011 and for at least one year.
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