Part-time Faculty, Songwriting Focus

About the role

The successful candidate will join the Songwriting and Production Department at BerkleeNYC, focusing on teaching graduate-level songwriting courses in the Fall 2026 semester. The position is part-time and renewable.

Responsibilities

• Teach courses in Songwriting Techniques on campus at BerkleeNYC.
• Teach songwriting concepts through frameworks that emphasize practical techniques, transferable creative strategies, and contemporary relevance across genres and workflows.
• Provide highly detailed, constructive, and actionable feedback on songwriting, lyrics, melody, harmony, arrangement, artistic identity, and creative direction.
• Help students develop fluency in contemporary songwriting aesthetics and practices, including an understanding of the stylistic, cultural, and collaborative nuances of genres such as hip-hop, pop, R&B, electronic, indie, and experimental music.
• Submit syllabi and course materials for all assigned courses.
• Attend department meetings and contribute to the faculty community of Songwriting and Production, BerkleeNYC, and Berklee.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of curriculum and learning outcomes to reflect changes in contemporary music, technology, and creative culture.
• Engage in professional development to maintain and continually advance teaching skills.

Qualifications

• Professional experience as a songwriter, artist, producer, collaborator, or creative practitioner within contemporary music culture.
• Experience teaching at the university level and mentoring emerging artists in collaborative, project-based creative environments.
• Demonstrated ability to write commercially competitive and artistically compelling songs across a range of contemporary genres and creative contexts.
• Strong understanding of contemporary songwriting, production, and artist development across a wide range of genres and creative practices, including pop, hip-hop, R&B, electronic, indie, alternative, singer-songwriter, and emerging hybrid forms.
• Awareness of the relationship between songwriting, production, and sonic world-building in contemporary music, with the ability to contextualize songwriting within modern collaborative production workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and articulate the compositional, lyrical, sonic, and cultural elements that define contemporary music and evolving industry trends.
• Strong organizational skills, including the ability to manage detailed feedback, student development, curriculum materials, and project-based learning in a fast-paced graduate environment.
• Exceptional communication and feedback skills, with the ability to give clear, actionable, artist-centered critique that supports both creative growth and professional standards.
• Experience mentoring artists and collaborators with diverse creative identities, backgrounds, and workflows.
• Commitment to fostering experimentation, artistic individuality, collaboration, and creative risk-taking while maintaining high professional expectations.
• Command of technology to support professional work and advance teaching and learning.
• Commitment to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion.