Music Adjunct Position Available In Norfolk, Massachusetts
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Job Description
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT
Adjunct Instructor(s) – Music (Voice and Clarinet/Saxophone) Music Department Mount Vernon Nazarene University exists to shape lives through educating the whole person and cultivating Christ-likeness for lifelong learning and service. Mount Vernon Nazarene University (MVNU) is an intentionally Christian teaching university for traditional age students, graduate students, and working adults who seek opportunities to learn and grow in an academic community of faith. The University provides the context for a transformational experience through excellent academics, service opportunities, caring relationships, and a nurturing spiritual and social environment. Faculty, staff, and students are challenged to achieve their highest potential, to become increasingly Christ-like and to make a difference in their world through lifelong service. The University seeks one or more part-time Adjunct Instructors to teach in the areas of voice and clarinet/saxophone.
Responsibilities for this position include:
- Teach applied lessons in area of expertise (voice or clarinet/saxophone). Provide instruction at all levels according to the needs of the student
- Acquaint students to various literature and prepare students for performance in lab recitals, juries, and degree recitals
- Demonstrate ability to provide students with clear course expectations, evaluations, and timelines through carefully written and approved syllabi
- Suitably challenge, engage, serve and communicate with students to encourage their participation and learning while maintaining mutual value and respect
- Complete grade books, final grade sheets, learning assessments and final exam assessments in a timely manner
- Respond to student questions in a timely manner
- Ensure course and program learning outcomes are delivered as defined by the syllabus
Minimum Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree in Music and/or
- Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of five years professional experience Expectations for the successful candidate:
- Evangelical Christian confession of faith and experience (Statement of Faith required at application)
- Demonstrated expertise in area of instruction
- Energetic and detail-oriented personality Interested candidates should send a curriculum vita, names of three references with contact information, a one to two-page statement of educational philosophy, a one to two-page statement of faith, and copies of university transcripts electronically to: John Packard Music Department Chair Mount Vernon Nazarene University 800 Martinsburg Road Mount Vernon, Ohio 43050 john.
packard@mvnu.edu Professional and personal references are required, consistent with the responsibilities associated with this position. A background check will be performed prior to appointment. Mount Vernon Nazarene University is committed to fostering a non-discriminatory campus environment in which community members can learn and work. MVNU prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, sex, age, color, national origin, disability, marital status, or military service in the operation of all University programs, activities, and services. As a faith-based institution, the University is exempted from certain laws and regulations concerning discrimination. The University maintains the right, with regard to its lifestyle covenant, employment, and other matters, to uphold and apply its Christian beliefs related to, among other issues, marriage, sex (gender), gender identity, sexual orientation, and sexual activity to the fullest extent permitted by law. Thus, MVNU attempts to make all policies and decisions within the doctrinal and moral convictions of the Church of the Nazarene (e.g., Articles of Faith, Covenant of Christian Conduct including the Statement on Human Sexuality and Marriage, Covenant of Christian Character, and the Statement on Discrimination, 915).