Community Music Center staff share the belief that the joys of making music belong to everyone. Many of us are musicians, but not all!
Community Music Center (CMC), one of the oldest arts organizations on the West Coast, provides music for everyone, regardless of financial means. Since 1921 we have offered high-quality music lessons, low-cost performances, and creative enrichment for all ages and abilities. CMC has branches in the Mission and Richmond Districts of San Francisco and partnership programs across the city. Community Music Center is offering an immediate and exciting opportunity for a Grant Writer. We seek an experienced, dynamic and inspired grant writer to join our team of dedicated and professional staff and faculty.
Qualifications:
Principal Job Responsibilities
The Grant Writer reports to CMC’s Executive Director and interfaces with the Program and Finance Directors. This staff position also involves working with a dedicated and passionate team of development, marketing and financial professionals on site four days per week at CMC’s Mission District Headquarters.
Working Conditions
This is an exempt position working on site four days per week (30 hours per week) at CMC’s Mission District Headquarters. Days to be determined.
Salary and Benefits
Salary commensurate with job requirements and experience. CMC offers healthcare, dental, vision and supplemental benefits packages, 403(b), and more.
To Apply
Please submit your resume and a thoughtful cover letter in confidence to
Mary Ann Grossman, CFRE, Development Consultant, CMCstaffopenings@sfcmc.org with your name and “Grant Writer” marked in the subject heading.
Application Deadline: Position is open until filled.
CMC seeks a Choir Assistant to support a mixed-voice choral ensemble for community members self-identifying as transgender, intersex, or gender-queer (TIGQ). An ideal candidate could be someone interested in singing in the choir, who would like to support the project in additional ways as well.
Overview of NVBA: A Pilot Project of Community Music Center
New Voices Bay Area is a new choral ensemble for singers who self-identify as transgender, intersex, or gender queer. The entire range of the community is encouraged to sing with us: we welcome all gender expressions and any stage of a physical transition or non-transition. NVBA is for people who love to sing, whether beginners or professionals. Our goal is to create a great choral ensemble that performs a wide range of music, and to create a safe, creative space for trans, intersex and gender-queer singers to make music, learn, create community and have a great time together.
NVBA is being created because the Bay Area does not yet have a chorus dedicated to serving and empowering this community. In the United States, choral ensembles—in schools, communities, and religious institutions–are the most common way that amateur musicians participate in musical activities. However, TIGQ people face significant barriers to participation. . Standard choral method sorts singers rigidly by sex (female sopranos and altos, male tenors and basses); yet TIGQ people’s vocal stories are often more complex. Directors are typically not trained to teach and respectfully include those whose vocal ranges may be in flux or do not “match” the gender presentation of the singer.
As a result, TIGQ singers often hesitate to participate in choruses out of concern that they would not “fit in” or be welcomed, regardless of best intentions. Yet the TIGQ community is in desperate need of social and artistic outlets. The community has long had extremely high rates of poverty, unemployment and dropping out of school, and astronomical suicide rates. Research demonstrates that participating in choirs provides marginalized people with healthy opportunities for self-expression, music education they would otherwise likely not receive, social connection that combats isolation and shame, and positive feedback and support. A chorus dedicated to the TIGQ community will quite literally allow people to raise their voices when they are rarely encouraged to do so. Similar ensembles in Boston and Los Angeles have recently been founded, and are meeting with great success in both their artistic and social mission.
Principal Job Responsibilities
To support the NVBA Director with administrative tasks, communicating with choir members, setting up choir performances, raising public awareness of the program, and evaluating the program.
Location, Day and Time
NVBA rehearsals will take place at the Community Music Center on Sundays from 7:00 – 8:30pm, starting September 9, 2018 and run for 36 sessions during CMC’s Academic year until June 2019. The assistant would arrive at 6:45 and leave at 8:45.
Compensation
The Choir Assistant is paid for one hour/week or 36 hours per year for 9 months of the year (September 2018 – June 2019).
Qualifications
Application Process
Email a resume and cover letter to cmcstaffopenings@sfcmc.org Please include “CMC NVBA Choir Assistant” in the subject of your email. Only those being considered will be contacted. No phone calls, please. CMC is an equal opportunity employer.
About Community Music Center
Community Music Center (CMC) is the Bay Area’s oldest community arts organization and San Francisco’s largest provider of free and low-cost music classes and concerts. Founded in 1921, CMC’s mission is dedicated to enhancing the community’s quality of life by making high quality music accessible to people of all ages and musical levels, regardless of their financial status. Students range in age from 4 to 94 years old and enjoy classes in everything from Western classical to Chinese to Latin music. CMC operates from two locations, in the Mission and Richmond Districts of San Francisco, and offers programs throughout the city.
The faculty of Community Music Center share the belief that the joy and satisfaction of learning to make music should be available to everyone, regardless of age, talent or means. Community Music Center seeks instructors with experience teaching a variety of styles, including western classical, jazz, rock, blues, Latin, flamenco, middle eastern and Chinese music.
Position Openings
CMC seeks instructors to form part of the faculty team that teaches in the Young Musicians Program, a tuition free program that includes private lessons, ensemble and music theory classes offered to teenagers during the school year. The ideal candidate will have enthusiasm, technical & pedagogical expertise, a demonstrated high level of musicianship, and strong communication skills.
These positions starts in September 2018 (with a faculty meeting in Summer 2018).
Young Musicians Program at Community Music Center (CMC)
CMC’s Young Musicians Program (YMP), a partnership with the San Francisco Unified School District, brings the benefits of music—artistic, educational, personal, and social—to middle and high school students. Since 1987, this tuition-free, award-winning program embraces diversity, offering a comprehensive, culturally diverse curriculum. Group classes provide instruction in theory, musicianship, and composition. Ensemble classes play Latin, classical, jazz and other music forms in orchestra, chamber groups, combos and bands.
Public school teachers nominate students who audition each Spring for the following academic year. If accepted, students are eligible for a full scholarship that provides students with weekly free private instrumental lessons, theory, and ensemble classes. The YMP program focuses on serving middle and high school students from low-income San Francisco households.
The YMP group class team consists of a Coordinator, and eight teachers under supervision of CMC’s Program Director.
Description of Responsibilities
Location, Day and Time
CMC’s Mission District Branch, Saturdays 12:00 – 2:00pm during the school year. One Faculty meeting will occur in Summer 2018.
Application Deadline: July 16, 2018
Send your cover letter and resume to cmcfacultyopenings@sfcmc.org. In the cover letter, describe your preferences in pedagogy and teaching style as you work with orchestras and theory classes. Summarize your experience with teaching teens. Video examples of teaching or prior examples of lesson plans/curriculum are welcome supplemental application materials. Please include CMC Young Musicians Program Faculty in the subject of your email. Only those being considered will be contacted. No phone calls, please. CMC is an equal opportunity employer
Applicants for this position are welcome to apply for the opening for a private lesson Violin/viola Faculty.
About Community Music Center
Community Music Center (CMC) is the Bay Area’s oldest community arts organization and San Francisco’s largest provider of free and low-cost music classes and concerts. Founded in 1921, CMC’s mission is dedicated to enhancing the community’s quality of life by making high quality music accessible to people of all ages and musical levels, regardless of their financial income. Students range in age from 2 to 97 years old and enjoy classes in everything from Western classical to Chinese to Latin music. CMC operates from two locations, in the Mission and Richmond Districts of San Francisco, and offers programs throughout the city.
Description of Responsibilities
Location, Day and Time
CMC’s Mission District Branch, Saturdays 12:00 – 2:00pm during the school year. One Faculty meeting will occur in Summer 2018.
Application Deadline: July 16, 2018
Send your cover letter and resume to cmcfacultyopenings@sfcmc.org. In the cover letter, describe your preferences in pedagogy and teaching style as you work with beginning wind students. Please speak to your comfort level teaching and explaining instrumental technique for different wind instruments, and any additional experience you may have teaching brass, string, or mixed ensembles. Summarize your experience working with middle-school students. Video examples of teaching or prior examples of lesson plans/curriculum are welcome supplemental application materials. Please include CMC Young Musicians Program Faculty in the subject of your email. Only those being considered will be contacted. No phone calls, please. CMC is an equal opportunity employer
Applicants for this position are welcome to apply for the opening for a private lesson Woodwind Faculty.
About Community Music Center
Community Music Center (CMC) is the Bay Area’s oldest community arts organization and San Francisco’s largest provider of free and low-cost music classes and concerts. Founded in 1921, CMC’s mission is dedicated to enhancing the community’s quality of life by making high quality music accessible to people of all ages and musical levels, regardless of their financial income. Students range in age from 2 to 97 years old and enjoy classes in everything from Western classical to Chinese to Latin music. CMC operates from two locations, in the Mission and Richmond Districts of San Francisco, and offers programs throughout the city.
CMC is hiring a piano teacher for the Mission District Branch, starting in Fall Quarter 2018. The Fall Quarter begins Tuesday, September 4.
Studio hours: Sunday 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Candidates should be qualified to teach beginning, intermediate, and advanced students from age 6 to adult. Experience in teaching multiple styles is desired.
Send a resume with cover letter to cmcfacultyopenings@sfcmc.org.
Application deadline: July 15, 2018
We expect faculty to provide well-rounded, quality music instruction:
About Community Music Center
Community Music Center was founded in 1921, with the mission of making music accessible to all people, regardless of their financial status. During the 2016- 2017 school year, CMC served over 2,600 students of all ages and levels and financial backgrounds and offered nearly $2M in tuition assistance. CMC launched a capital campaign in 2013, to expand and re-imagine its Mission District campus by incorporating a newly acquired Victorian building next door to its existing building and concert hall. CMC has received a number of regional and national foundation awards and grants, including the Google Impact Challenge Award; the Bloomberg Philanthropies Capacity Building Grant and an Aroha Philanthropies leadership grant for the Capital Campaign, as well as grants supporting Creative Aging and Young Musicians Programs.
CMC is hiring a violin/viola teacher for the Richmond District Branch, starting in Fall Quarter 2018. The Fall quarter begins Tuesday, September 4.
Studio hours (You may apply for either or both days):
| Monday | Richmond Branch | violin/viola | 2:30 pm – 9 pm |
| Tuesday | Off-site near Richmond Branch | violin/viola | 3:00 pm – 8:30 pm (starts fall quarter) |
Send a resume with cover letter to cmcfacultyopenings@sfcmc.org.
Application deadline: July 15, 2018
We expect faculty to provide well-rounded, quality music instruction:
About Community Music Center
Community Music Center was founded in 1921, with the mission of making music accessible to all people, regardless of their financial status. During the 2016- 2017 school year, CMC served over 2,600 students of all ages and levels and financial backgrounds and offered nearly $2M in tuition assistance. CMC launched a capital campaign in 2013, to expand and re-imagine its Mission District campus by incorporating a newly acquired Victorian building next door to its existing building and concert hall. CMC has received a number of regional and national foundation awards and grants, including the Google Impact Challenge Award; the Bloomberg Philanthropies Capacity Building Grant and an Aroha Philanthropies leadership grant for the Capital Campaign, as well as grants supporting Creative Aging and Young Musicians Programs.
CMC is hiring a woodwinds teacher beginning in the Fall quarter, 2018. Fall Quarter begins Tuesday, September 4. Candidates should be qualified to teach flute, clarinet, and sax to beginning, intermediate and advanced students from age 8 to adult, preferably for classical, pop, and jazz lessons, and ensemble coaching
Studio hours:
Thursdays, 2:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Send a resume with cover letter to cmcfacultyopenings@sfcmc.org.
Application deadline: July 15, 2018
We expect faculty to provide well-rounded, quality music instruction:
About Community Music Center
Community Music Center was founded in 1921, with the mission of making music accessible to all people, regardless of their financial status. During the 2016- 2017 school year, CMC served over 2,600 students of all ages and levels and financial backgrounds and offered nearly $2M in tuition assistance. CMC launched a capital campaign in 2013, to expand and re-imagine its Mission District campus by incorporating a newly acquired Victorian building next door to its existing building and concert hall. CMC has received a number of regional and national foundation awards and grants, including the Google Impact Challenge Award; the Bloomberg Philanthropies Capacity Building Grant and an Aroha Philanthropies leadership grant for the Capital Campaign, as well as grants supporting Creative Aging and Young Musicians Programs.
CMC is happy to receive all resumes for our file, whether or not a position is currently open. Please send resumes to CMCfacultyopenings@sfcmc.org.
