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Piano Faculty

Maricopa Community College district
long term disability, tuition reimbursement
United States, Arizona, Glendale
Jan 09, 2025


Piano Faculty

Job ID: 320939
Location: Glendale Community College
Full/Part Time: Full Time
Regular/Temporary: Regular

Salary Range

$51,744 - $99,672/annually, DOE

Work Calendar

9 Months

Maricopa Summary

Are you looking for a place to work where you can make a real difference in the lives of over 200,000 college students every year?

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About Us

What's Currently Happening at Maricopa

  • Many of our campuses have received grant awards through the National Science Foundation to improve undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving institutions program (HSI Program).
  • Commitment to diversity, inclusion, equity and employee groups to create an environment of shared governance
  • One of the largest community college systems in the country
  • 2020 Healthy Arizona Worksites Program recipient
  • Named 19th Best Employer for Women by Forbes
  • 2019 No. 42 in Arizona's Best Employers


Benefits

The Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) is committed to providing you with a competitive, comprehensive benefits program that provides the care you and your family need to lead healthy and productive lives. Our benefits are designed to provide support for every life stage and lifestyle in our community.

Benefits & Perks Options:
  • 16 paid observed holidays
  • Arizona State Retirement System (ASRS) & 12% Employee Contribution Match (Pension, Long Term Disability, and Health Insurance)
  • Paid, sick, and personal time (if applicable)
    Maricopa Employee Store: Perks & Gears (exclusive discounts and offers for Maricopa Community Colleges faculty and staff)
  • Tuition reimbursement for employees and dependents
  • Flexible work schedules
  • Maricopa Employee Health & Wellness Program:
    • Sight-On-Site Eye Care Services
    • Diabetes Empowerment Education Program
      Mobile On-site Mammography Screenings
    • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
    • Wondr online program that teaches clinically-proven, healthy habits that lead to less stress, better sleep, weight loss, and more
    • Pre-Retirement Event
  • Public Service Loan Forgiveness (may forgive the remaining balance on a federal student loan made directly by the U.S. Department of Education after qualifying).
  • 10+ Maricopa Affinity Resource Employee Groups (Celebrates diversity, embraces inclusion, and supports employees, students, and community!)


Job Summary

This position begins August 15, 2025.

The Performing Arts Department of Glendale Community College (AZ) is seeking an artist/teacher of Piano. The music program within the Performing Arts Department serves nearly 200 music majors and offers an Associate of Arts in Fine Arts degree for transfer and an Associate of Arts in Sciences degree in audio production technologies. The successful candidate will demonstrate past experience as a successful teacher and collaborator and will teach courses in class piano and applied piano. The candidate will recruit and advise piano students, assist in the hiring of adjunct faculty for the piano program. They will supervise the maintenance of the piano inventory and maintain budgets and scholarships for piano music students. The successful candidate may be asked to fulfill other departmental needs in related areas of expertise including music theory and aural perception, music ensembles, musical theatre, music technology, and other performance areas such as chamber music, popular music, jazz and/or non-Western music. Glendale Community College is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music.

Essential Functions
  • Teach a progressive 4-semester course of class piano
  • Teach all levels of applied (private) piano
  • Recruit and retain students interested in piano performance and music education
  • Procure, manage and maintain the piano inventory
  • Oversee the piano budget and scholarships
  • Teach additional classes in related area of musical expertise, as assigned


Minimum Qualifications

Master's Degree or higher in one of the following fields:
  • Music, any specialization

OR, a Master's Degree in any field with 18 graduate-level credits in these prefixes/subjects:
  • MHL, MUP, MUC, MTC, MUS

OR, a Master's Degree in any field with 18 graduate-level credits in courses with these keywords:
  • Music Theory, Music Performance, Music History, Music Therapy


Desired Qualifications
  1. Recent college experience teaching Class Piano
  2. Recent experience teaching Applied Piano
  3. Experience working or teaching in collaborative piano, musical theatre, and/or piano pedagogy
  4. Experience working or teaching in one or more related classical music fields that are not piano (e.g., music theory and aural perception, large musical ensembles and/or chamber music)
  5. Experience working or teaching in one or more related contemporary music fields that are not piano (e.g., music technology, music business and other performance areas such as popular music, jazz and/or non-Western music)
  6. Experience working or teaching in one or more related contemporary music fields that are not piano (e.g., music technology, music business and other performance areas such as popular music, jazz and/or non-Western music)
  7. DMA (Director of Musical Arts) or PhD in music with graduate-level coursework in piano


Special Working Conditions
  • Travel to campus during interview/selection process will be at candidate's own expense
  • May be required to travel or be assigned to all MCCCD locations
  • May require some evenings or weekends
  • May require prolonged periods of viewing a computer screen
  • May be required to lift or carry up to 25 lbs


How to Apply

Applicants are required to submit unofficial transcripts, resume/Curriculum Vitae (CV) and a cover letter showing how the applicant meets the minimum and desired qualifications. All minimum requirements must be met at the time of the application. If your master's degree is not in the teaching field, then please list the 18 graduate semester hours completed in the teaching field in your application materials.

MCCCD accepts unofficial transcripts for U.S. schools at the time of application. Unofficial transcripts are submitted as an attachment to the application. Transcripts from non U.S. institutions must be translated and evaluated and provided with application material.

Additional materials will not be accepted after the job posting has closed.

Missing materials or incomplete employment history will not be considered.

Please ensure your materials clearly provide the following information.
  • Clearly illustrate how prior experience, knowledge and education meet the minimum and desired qualifications for this position.
  • Indicate whether former or current employment is Full-Time or;
  • Part-Time employment (must include number of hours worked or load)
  • Provide employment history in a month/year format (e.g., 09/07 to 10/11) including job title, job duties, for each position held and name of employer for each position.
  • Three professional references, preferably current and/or former supervisors. If references are not provided in resume upon application, they will be requested at time of interview.


Posting Close Date

Apply on or before Tuesday, February 18, 2025 to be considered.

EEO, Title IX, & Clery Act

Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) will not discriminate, nor tolerate discrimination in employment or education, against any applicant, employee, or student because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status (including document abuse), age, disability, veteran status or genetic information.

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, states: "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."

The policy of the MCCCD is to provide an educational, employment, and business environment free of gender discrimination. Incidents of misconduct should be reported to the college Title IX Coordinator, as outlined in policy, contact information is available at this link Title IX Coordinators.

The Clery Act is a Federal law requiring United States Colleges and Universities to disclose information about crime on and around their campuses. Crime reporting data for each of the Maricopa Community Colleges, as required under the Clery Act, is available at this link Clery Act.

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