Job Description
Music and Performing Arts Full-Time Faculty Appointment (tenure track) - Director of String Activities and Conductor of the University Orchestras ID: 2024-2061
Category: Music
Type: Full-Time
FLSA Status: Benefit Eligible: Benefit Eligible
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Office Location: 3900
Job Summary Full-time tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level, conducting the Chamber and Philharmonic Orchestras and teaching Music Theory and other courses in the Department of Music & Performing Arts. We are open to hiring an Assistant, Associate or Full Professor for this position. The range for an Assistant Professor is $55,599 - $70,043, Associate Professor is $62,927 - $84,168 and Full Professor is $77,265 - $95,904.
Responsibilities
- Conduct the Bethel University Chamber Orchestra, an ensemble that includes music majors and non-majors from across the university
- Conduct the Bethel University Philharmonic Orchestra, a community ensemble
- Serve as the department's director of String Activities
- Teach a variety of courses depending on candidate expertise and department need, with a strong preference for Music Theory; other possible courses include
- Introduction to Creative Arts, Instrumentation, Conducting, Music History, methods courses, and a January musical or opera
- Participate in departmental activities, including planning for the Festival of Christmas and various concerts in the fall and spring
- Recruit students to the University Orchestras regardless of major
- Recruit string majors to the department
- Travel with the ensemble on annual tours
- Evaluate applicants for music scholarships
- Actively support the University's commitment to its Christian values and to liberal arts education
- Contribute to an academic environment that seeks to advance inclusive excellence in the department and the discipline
Skills
- Strong knowledge of string methods
- Ability to teach theory, or other auxiliary courses
- Exceptional conducting and concert programming skills
- Ability to assist in hiring and management of adjunct string music lessons faculty
Experience
- Experience as primary conductor of an orchestra or similar ensemble required
- Experience teaching or serving as a teaching assistant of theory or other academic music class required
Education
- Masters Degree in Orchestral Conducting or a related field is required; Doctorate in Orchestral Conducting or a related field is preferred
Additional Information Compensation: The range for an Assistant Professor is $55,599 - $70,043, Associate Professor is $62,927 - $84,168 and Full Professor is $77,265 - $95,904.
Position open: August 2025
Additional Information: Search committee will begin reviewing applications December 1, 2024
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Questions?
Academic Affairs
College of Arts & Sciences
Bethel University
3900 Bethel Drive
St. Paul, MN 55112
651.638.6804
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Bethel seeks to recruit, retain, support, and develop a diverse workforce that contributes to our educational and Christ-centered mission. Bethel encourages candidates to apply who can assist the University to develop a faculty that reflects the diversity of people in God's kingdom through a variety of ethnicities, cultures, and lived experiences.
Learn more about our commitment to diversity in hiring.
Bethel University is a leader in Christ-centered higher education with approximately 5,000 students from 48 states and 32 countries enrolled in undergraduate, graduate, seminary, and adult education programs. Based in St. Paul, Minnesota, Bethel offers bachelor's and advanced degrees in nearly 100 fields. Educationally excellent classroom-based and online programs equip graduates to make exceptional contributions in life-long service to God and the world.
Bethel employs qualified individuals regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, marital status, genetic information, veteran status, familial status, and status with regard to public assistance. Individuals must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodations.
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About Bethel University
Bethel seeks to recruit, retain, support, and develop a diverse workforce that contributes to our educational and Christ-centered mission. Bethel encourages candidates to apply who can assist the University to develop a faculty that reflects the diversity of people in God’s kingdom through a variety of ethnicities, cultures, and lived experiences.
Learn more about our commitment to diversity in hiring -
Bethel University is a leader in Christ-centered higher education with approximately 5,000 students from 48 states and 32 countries enrolled in undergraduate, graduate, seminary, and adult education programs. Based in St. Paul, Minnesota, Bethel offers bachelor's and advanced degrees in nearly 100 fields. Educationally excellent classroom-based and online programs equip graduates to make exceptional contributions in life-long service to God and the world.
Bethel employs qualified individuals regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, marital status, genetic information, veteran status, familial status, and status with regard to public assistance. Individuals must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodations.
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