Director of Music Composition (Volunteer)

About Mentor A Promise

Mentor A Promise is a New York City–based nonprofit serving children and youth (ages 5–18) experiencing housing instability, grounded in the belief that every child is a Promise—full of potential, dignity, and possibility. We deliver consistent, high-quality programming across mentorship, literacy, social-emotional learning, and creative expression in shelters, schools, and community spaces, creating structured environments where students can grow, be seen, and build lasting skills. Through signature experiences like The Imagination Studio, The Kitchen Table, The Sound Lab, and The Story Space, we nurture academic development, emotional well-being, and creative voice, all within a trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and accessibility-centered framework. Our work prioritizes dignity-protective storytelling, consent-driven engagement, and deep community partnership, ensuring that how we serve is as intentional as whom we serve. We are not only addressing immediate needs - we are building pathways to confidence, belonging, and long-term opportunity, so every child has the support and foundation to carry their promise forward.

About PromiseStudios

PromiseStudios is MAP's multidisciplinary creative production division. The studio brings together writers, filmmakers, animators, illustrators, photographers, composers, musicians, sound designers, editors, voice performers, producers, and other creative professionals to develop original projects across multiple forms of media. Music is an essential part of that creative ecosystem. It can establish an emotional world before a character speaks, transform the meaning of a scene, create continuity across a story, and give an entire project a musical identity audiences remember long after it ends.

Role Overview

MAP is seeking an experienced Director of Music Composition to lead music composition and scoring across PromiseStudios. The Director will establish the creative and technical standards for original music while building and developing a team of composers capable of supporting animation, film, podcasts, educational media, digital content, campaigns, and other original productions. This is both a creative leadership and team-building role. The Director should be an accomplished composer, but the position is not designed for one person to compose everything MAP produces. The responsibility is larger: build the people, standards, workflows, musical language, and collaborative environment necessary for PromiseStudios to produce exceptional original music consistently.

Responsibilities

• Establish composition and scoring standards.
• Guide the musical direction of assigned productions.
• Review scripts, storyboards, animatics, rough cuts, and creative briefs.