Music Program Manager

About the role

Since 1893, Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston have played an essential role in opening doors and creating opportunities for young people across this city. For every youth in Boston and Chelsea, Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston are a life-changing force for opportunity and empowerment that enables future talent to reach their full individual potential as productive citizens and leaders, inspired to make a difference in the Greater Boston community.

The mission of the Music Clubhouse is to give youth the opportunity to build self-confidence and interpersonal skills by learning how to play, perform, compose, and record music. The primary goal of the program is to use music as a vehicle for developing academic skills, social skills, and to ultimately build self-confidence and self-esteem. The clubhouse is one of a variety of programs that BGCB provides to underserved youth in the community.

Responsibilities

• Create/revise program curriculum with clearly-defined activities and realistic, measurable outcomes.
• Lead weekly schedule of music instructional activities with small groups of youth, many with no previous musical experience.
• Create and implement regular showcase opportunities for Music Clubhouse youth and coach youth to perform with confidence.
• Identify core group of teens to serve as Music Clubhouse "All Stars" (Members will receive advanced music and leadership training and serve as mentors to younger youth and peers).
• Secure, maintain and monitor budget, materials, equipment and other resources belonging to the program area(s).
• Maintain a safe and clean program area(s).
• Supervise and discipline of members participating in programs and services within the program area as well as throughout the clubhouse as deemed appropriate.
• Program & supervise daily drop-in times.
• Conduct outreach and recruitment within our programs and broader community throughout the year as necessary.
• Meet with participant parents and provide them with opportunities to learn more about the program.
• Cookinate volunteers and consultants who can offer related instruction, support and guidance to members.
• Participate in individual and group supervision sessions; participate in professional development opportunities as appropriate.
• Integrate Music Clubhouse program and youth in annual signature events.
• Orient, train and supervise department staff (including work-study students, junior staff, and volunteers).
• Provide annual performance evaluations for applicable staff in a timely manner.
• Assess our impact is critical to our work. All staff is expected to participate in various evaluation efforts throughout each program year, including the annual member survey.
• Develop and implement Member evaluation to determine Member skills development and satisfaction with program.
• Attend and actively participate in organization-wide meetings, programs and events.
• Aid the organization (as needed) in the audio/visual needs for organization programs, initiatives and/or events.
• Perform other assignments as designated by Senior Management in order to facilitate the most effective service to members, program participants, and the community.
• Attend and participate in Music & Youth Initiative programs, special events, professional development and reporting.
• Responsible for evening and weekend building coverage as scheduled.
• Travel between sites and to activities as needed.

Qualifications

• BA degree required.
• 3-5 years of developing and implementing programs for teenagers.
• Involvement with Youth Development programming in an urban setting.
• Flexible and creative self-starter - demonstrated ability to be entrepreneurial and work through obstacles.
• "Hands-On" mentality - candidate should be willing to work directly with kids, teachers and program partners.
• Team oriented - ability to cultivate relationships and work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
• An advanced and proven understanding of music performance theory and pedagogy and previous experience teaching music.
• The ability to play at least one instrument at an advanced level and demonstrated ability to teach entry-level music (voice, keyboard, drums, guitar, etc.) to students is a must.
• General knowledge of the music business/industry, including digital/social media.
• Including an advanced and proven understanding of music production and recording (including ProTools software and Digidesign hardware) and pedagogy.