Job Description
Fourth Universalist is a great place to work. We are an equal opportunity employer and abide by the Unitarian Universalist Association Fair Compensation Guidelines. Below is the job description for our Director of Music position.
Reports to: Senior Minister
Directly Supervises: Associate Director of Music, Guest Music Leaders
Status: Part Time (15 hours/week)
FLSA: Exempt
Compensation: $26,775.76/year
Benefits include: Professional expenses pro-rated at 10% of salary, annual COLA, one Sunday off per month
Job Summary
The Director of Music provides dynamic leadership and oversight to the congregational music program, contributing a diverse, participatory and affecting musical experience.
Essential Functions:
Minimum Qualifications:
Physical Requirements:
Core Competencies:
Directly Supervises: Associate Director of Music, Guest Music Leaders
Status: Part Time (15 hours/week)
FLSA: Exempt
Compensation: $26,775.76/year
Benefits include: Professional expenses pro-rated at 10% of salary, annual COLA, one Sunday off per month
Job Summary
The Director of Music provides dynamic leadership and oversight to the congregational music program, contributing a diverse, participatory and affecting musical experience.
Essential Functions:
- Lead, prepare and coordinate music for Sunday morning services and beyond, including but not limited to congregational weddings, memorials, seasonal programming, vigils, actions, and fundraisers
- Collaborate with ministers and other leaders in the creation of worship services
- Supervise Associate Music Director
- Recruit, hire, train, and supervise guest music leaders
- Oversee music budgets and purchases for music program and equipment
- Consult and coordinate regularly with Audio Techs on sound needs
- Oversee maintenance of congregational instruments, music equipment and music library
- Lead and support congregational participation in music through direction of a choir and other opportunities to grow and perform musically
- Nurture a culture of musical appreciation, engagement, and literacy
- Lead adult education opportunities that deepen musical understanding within the congregation
- Collaborate with the religious education program, working musically with children and youth
- Proactively communicates with the congregation, Board, and relevant volunteers and staff regarding music programming and issues
- Participate in staff, board and congregational meetings when requested, including a weekly senior staff meeting
- Maintain contact with music colleagues in other congregations and with the wider denomination through involvement in the Unitarian Universalist Musician’s Network (UUMN) and/or other professional and denominational organizations
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Music (or equivalent experience)
- 3 years music ministry experience in a congregational setting
- Demonstrated leadership and choral directing skills
Physical Requirements:
- Able to move freely in and out of different physical spaces
- Able to speak in a public forum
Core Competencies:
- Mission Ownership: Demonstrates understanding and full support of the mission, vision, values and beliefs of the congregation; can teach and demonstrate those principles to others; leads others to identify how their lives and identity connects to the life and identity of the congregation.
- Interpersonal Skills: Demonstrates the ability to lead others and be led; demonstrates interest, skill and success in building team environments; engages people positively, with a demeanor of optimism, invitation and abundance; nurtures authentic and meaningful relationships with and between community members; creates strong morale and a feeling of belonging, pride and shared leadership.
- Creativity and Innovation: Generates and is open to new ideas; makes new connections among existing ideas to create fresh approaches; actively looks beyond the familiar and comfortable and experiments with diverse musical and worship forms; is responsive and enthusiastic regarding change and growth; embraces life-long learning for oneself and others; engages and takes seriously current thinking and practices of Unitarian Universalist music ministry.
- Worship Leadership: Along with the worship leader, designs and facilitates relevant and inspiring worship; promotes experiences of the sacred; crafts a worship flow that reinforces a theme or purpose or emotional experience; shows strong personal depth and integrity and confidently projects the identity and character of the congregation.
- Developing Others: Identifies and recruits lay leaders and volunteers and cultivates a congregational environment that encourages and celebrates musical participation; nurtures relationships; invites others into shared leadership; supports the musical growth of members and friends; shares the principles and mission of the congregation and encourages lay participants in their spiritual development.
- Technical Expertise: Acquires and demonstrates the technical skills required to proficiently execute the essential functions of the job; understands which skills are lacking and seeks to develop those skills; continually works towards the mastery of technical proficiency