We are Hiring
Location is 3831 E 43rd St, and we will be meeting 3-5 Thursdays and Fridays for all positions.
Music Director of Golden Spirit Children’s Choirs
Are you interested in helping Kansas City’s children have the chance to sing and be heard? Golden Spirit Children’s Choirs, a new nonprofit children’s choir organization here in Kansas City is hiring our first music director. Golden Spirit uses a unique curriculum written by Erin Keller, Katie Jones, and Tyra Prosser, which incorporates a music director, social worker, and accompanist facilitating a curriculum which not only focuses on music learning objectives, but also social emotional learning objectives, and poetry learning objectives. This happens 2 days a week for 2 hours each time. Erin Keller will be there to help mentor and observe as the curriculum will be a work in progress, needing to adapt to how the children respond to it in reality. There is a year’s worth of lessons written, but there is no telling how it will actually work in real life. Golden Spirit is partnering with Boys and Girls Club of Greater Kansas City and will be assigned to one of their locations in the metro. Applicants are responsible for their transportation to and from the location chosen, wherever it is.
REQUIREMENTS
Availability Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30-5:30 plus extra time after class to meet with Erin and the social worker to make sure everybody is ready for the next class. Each class pays $150.
Erin Keller is a cancer patient, so sometimes she might not be able to be at the rehearsal, in which case the director needs to be able to work just with the social worker and the accompanist to lead the class.
Experience conducting choral music
Experience and/or coursework working with children, preferably elementary age
Ability to teach sight-singing (can sing a capella in tune demonstrating solfège with hand signs and using recognizable patterns)
Ability to teach hand drumming at a very rudimentary level
Can sing and demonstrate foreign languages
Uses and has experience teaching healthy vocal technique
Willingness and ability to collaborate with social worker you are teaching with
Willingness and ability to teach poetry curriculum which includes reading, writing, and speaking and leads into songwriting curriculum
Patience
Kindness
Positive attitude!
To apply please send your resume to president@goldenspiritsings.com
SOCIAL WORKER of Golden Spirit Children’s Choirs
Job purpose:
Facilitate social emotional learning activities (provided in the curriculum) during the Golden Spirit Choir sessions. Provide clinical social work expertise and perspective to personnel and students as needed during session hours.
Job duties and responsibilities:
Facilitate social emotional component of after school choir program curriculum.
Provide additional support to individual students if necessary during the program hours.
Serve as a mentor to students, remaining an active participant throughout the entire session.
Weekly program schedule is 3:30-5:30 p.m. during the school year on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Required skills and qualifications:
At least 2 years of experience working with school age children
At least least 2 years of experience working in the social work field
Ability to develop creative solutions
Proactive and positive attitude
Able to set boundaries
Crisis intervention and stabilization skills
Preferred skills and qualifications:
At least 2 years of experience working with school age children
At least 2 years of experience in the school social work field
Degree in social work (LMSW, LCSW)
Ability to develop creative solutions
Proactive and positive attitude
Able to set boundaries
Crisis intervention and stabilization skills
Working conditions:
Pay is $150 per 2 hour class with the understanding that there might be extra time involved in fine tuning the curriculum depending on how the students react to it.
Ability to manage energetic groups of kids for a sustained amount of time (about 2 hours).
To apply please send your resume to president@goldenspiritsings.com
Accompanist
Are you a skilled pianist interested in helping Kansas City’s children have the chance to sing and be heard? Golden Spirit Children’s Choirs, a new nonprofit children’s choir organization here in Kansas City is hiring our first accompanist. Golden Spirit uses a unique curriculum written by Erin Keller, Katie Jones, and Tyra Prosser, which incorporates a music director, social worker, and accompanist facilitating a curriculum which not only focuses on music learning objectives, but also social emotional learning objectives, and poetry learning objectives. This happens 2 days a week for 2 hours each time. Golden Spirit is partnering with Boys and Girls Club of Greater Kansas City and will be assigned to one of their locations in the metro. Applicants are responsible for their transportation to and from the location chosen, wherever it is.
REQUIREMENTS
Availability Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30-5:30
Each class pays $100
Ability to play vocal warmups in every key
Ability to sight read music well
Ability to read open score notation
Ability to improvise, come up with basic harmonic structures to help students with songwriting
Ability to think creatively
Patience
Kindness
Positive attitude
To apply please send your resume to president@goldenspiritsings.com