This opening calls for specific teaching qualifications set by the school.
CalWest’s client school in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a Director of Performing Arts to start in August 2024.
CalWest Required Qualifications
- A Bachelor’s Degree and/or other educational requirements listed on the job description
- Requisite skills commensurate with the position
- A reasonable commuting distance to the CalWest client school, or a willingness to relocate
- Authorization to live and work in the United States
Client School Preferred Qualifications
- Desire and ability to work in a collegial, highly collaborative environment
- Demonstrated ability to engage students across middle and upper school in choir, performance, and music related classes and performances
- Demonstrated ability to produce musical performances and to direct a team of supporting adults toward a shared vision and execution of the show
- Demonstrated commitment to teaching and learning in a diverse, dynamic, and progressive school community
- A commitment to anti-racism and demonstrated skill in designing equitable and inclusive educational experiences and learning environments that incorporate themes of diversity and justice
- Bachelor’s degree in Performing Arts or related field preferred
Responsibilities
- Actively participate in a collaborative employee culture that is committed to being at the leading edge of JK – 12th grade education.
- Reports to Head MS and US
- Teaches two 7-8th grade elective classes 4x per week year-round, possibly including Show Choir, Music, Chorus, Drama
- Teaches a rotation of music classes to 5th & 6th graders equivalent to one 4-block class year-round
- Directs one major performance each season (Fall, Winter, Spring), including one middle school focused production, one mixed upper & middle school production, and one upper school focused production
- Teaches Upper School year-round “Exploratory” classes to students who self-select into the courses. These change quarterly and might span a range of music, singing, and drama to be determined with candidate
- Produce small scale exhibitions/performances from taught middle and upper school classes, roughly once per quarter, for example, students in a middle school choir elective sing at an all school assembly or event
- Teaches one 10th Grade Fall Immersive
- Lead middle school lunch club & afterschool opp for LS or MS (Drama)
- Coordinates theater/events in JK-12
- Works collaboratively with division heads to determine the use of budget to support music, choral, and theater elements of the department
Salary Range
$77,500–$140,000
