Specialist, Performing Arts

Job Overview

Roles And Responsibilities

Provides guidance and leadership on matters specifically related to performing arts instruction for central office administrative personnel, teachers, parents, community members and other key stakeholders.

Consults and works with the Supervisor of Visual and Performing Arts and the Director for Teaching and Learning, K-12 to coordinate and supervise curriculum development in the performing arts discipline to ensure alignment to division and department strategic priorities.

Reviews, revises, and advises on facility specifications, renovations and construction; reviews, revises, and advises on the equipment specifications and purchases; plans for and facilitates safety trainings for theatre and other performance spaces in schools.

Designs professional development opportunities that enhance the role of teachers as leaders in the performing arts; collaborates with other department members to plan and implement professional learning in the areas of Music and/or Theatre.

Works with the Supervisor of Visual and Performing Arts to identify needed program supports, develop and administer annual operating and school-based programs centrally managed budgets; maintains a budget to support curriculum development and professional growth for teachers and administrators; serves on committees as requested by the Supervisor of Visual and Performing Arts.

Carries out related assignments, as determined by the Assistant Superintendent for Teaching and Learning and Director of Teaching and Learning, K-12 to support professional learning in the design and delivery of authentic learning for students that lead to deeper learning.

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree
• Five (5) years successful teaching experience in Music and/or Theater
• Holds or is eligible for a Virginia Postgraduate Professional License with an endorsement in Music or Theater Arts

Physical Requirements

• Regularly talking, expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word
• Sitting and/or remaining in a stationary position for long periods of time
• Erecting up to 25 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects

Reports To

Supervisor, Visual and Performing Arts

FLSA Status

Exempt

Months/Days/Hours

12 months/ 254 days/ 8 hours

Salary Level

Universal/Scale B.2 - Level 16

Salary Scale

https://www.lcps.org/compensation

Salary Range

103,690 -170,831

Remote Work Eligible

No

Union Designation

Non-certified