Adjunct Instructor of Music - Applied Piano/Keyboard

Adjunct Instructor of Music - Applied Piano/Keyboard

Department:

Music

Job Summary (Adjunct Faculty): Exempt, Part-Time Bethel University is accepting applications for an Applied Piano/Keyboard Adjunct Faculty. This role will include private instruction of students as assigned, as well as occasionally providing master classes/workshops. This role may also include accompaniment of music ensembles, student lessons, juries, and recitals, to be determined and compensated on a semester-by-semester basis.

Essential Job Functions

• Teach applied lessons in area of specialization
• Provide occasional master classes and/or piano workshops
• Provide piano/keyboard accompaniment for the music department

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Music Performance, or equivalent in professional experience
• Minimum of 3 years' experience teaching in public or private education

Performance Measurements:

• Prompt scheduling, and reporting of grades to music department supervisor.
• Maintaining a collegial, professional work environment and attitude when working with students, faculty, and staff.
• Yearly evaluations

Work normally involves contact with persons beyond immediate associates generally regarding routine matters for purposes of giving or obtaining information which may require some discretion. Outside contacts take the form of service to the public (visitors or vendors) requiring ordinary courtesy in providing assistance and information. May be asked to do occasional lifting up to 25lbs.

About Bethel University

The mission of Bethel University, affiliated with the Missionary Church denomination, is to be a community of learners building lives of commitment for leadership in the Church and world. Bethel's liberating academic programs challenge the mind, enlarge the vision, and equip the whole person for lifelong service.

Launched in 1947, Bethel is urban situated in the northern Indiana region hosting 250,000 residents, seven colleges (including Notre Dame), the 2nd largest shopping district in the state of Indiana, 15,000 businesses, 50 parks, and beautiful riverwalk developments in South Bend and Mishawaka. Resort venues on Lake Michigan are 45 minutes away. The university community is composed of about 1,500 traditional and adult/graduate students from 35 states, 90 students born outside the United States, and 225 full-time employees. Bethel also hosts more than 8,000 guests annually to arts productions, 25,000 annually in conference services, and many thousands of community members in support of 40 national athletic championships.

Bethel's 20,000 alumni occupy 49 states and 64 world areas and enjoy a medical school acceptance rate double the national average, 100% job placement rate in Nursing whose program was ranked No. 7 in the United States, a Top 4% finish nationally in competitive math performance tests, and 100% pass rate every year on the national performance standard for a unique academic major in American Sign Language.