Evening & Weekend Music Teachers Needed

•  Do you love people
•  Do you love community?
•  Do you to play music and want to instill in others a passion for playing proficiently and powerfully?
•  Are you a highly capable musician?
•  Would you love to make great money doing what you love and making a difference?

We are looking for committed music educators (or great musicians willing to become great educators), ideally college educated, with a desire and passion to teach music as their mission. You must have passion and proficiency in your instrument.

If you do not have a professional working knowledge of all of your scales, chords, and theory, or cannot read music at an exceptional level, please do not contact us. We are music school, not a bunch of people who just play music. Why are we looking for great people? Because we are constantly growing and none of us teach on the weekends.

Are you willing to work hard and want to be a part of a great new team in a growing, community minded local organization that will make a difference? With great pay and paid time off? Keep reading! Important note: Please keep in mind, this is NOT a full-time job, however, after a year or so it is very likely that you could provide for yourself fairly well teaching about twenty-hours a week with a solid roster of students and classes, depending on student enrollment and your willingness and ability to connect with the community.

Our busiest faculty member teaches about 25 hours a week and has been for years and does quite will with that schedule and provision. We need fun, energetic, highly relatable and outgoing people. Paid time off five weeks a year!

For the right person, we are also looking for a director for this new school/start up. SD, the director of TIA, will set that person up for success will all the logistics needed to run the organization, including the phone, email, etc. The director pay is $5 per month, per enrolled student in addition to your teacher pay. Pay will increase obviously as the school grows, and the rate will increase over the years with inflation. Director work is of course scaled according to how busy things are. Right now, with 400 students at TIA, SD probably still only spends maybe 15-30 minutes a day during the week working director things. Obviously it won’t be that busy in the beginning.

Primary director responsibilities include: Fielding phone calls during business hours (SD teaches all day pretty much 11-7PM so it doesn’t need to be all the time). Checking voicemails and returning calls. Fielding emails. Contacting teachers and booking students. From there, after a quick email, everything goes to admin. We have an admin team at TIA that will handle this new start until it grows big enough to need its own team, at which point, we will assign a new team. Being an advocate for the organization and sharing the story.

Drop us a resume and tell us why you would like to be a part of the team and why you think you would be a fit, and if interested, we will schedule a call.

You must read music at a highly competent/professional level. You must know all of your scales on your primary instrument (major, minor, harmonic, and melodic at least) and ideally at least all of your majors and minors on any secondary instruments, willing to learn the rest ASAP!

Why teach for Music 1^st?

So many reasons, but most importantly because if you care about people and you care deeply about music done right and taught right, Music 1st is the school for you. You should teach for us if you want to be able to focus on teaching, developing meaningful relationships, and the rest of your life, without having to be concerned about advertising, booking students, invoicing, etc. We handle all that. You just teach music well and be a great mentor! Finally, you should teach for us because we know what works and we’ve done it before. Sean-David McGoran (our co-founder/director started The Tuned In Academy in his living room in Lacey about 10 years ago—and they are now a fully established non-profit academy of music with over twenty faculty serving nearly 450 students a week! 

What we need most?

• Drums
• Piano
• Voice (male)
• Guitar/Ukulele 

We love teachers that can teach multiple instruments!

Drop resume and a brief note about who you are and what you do in an email to director@music1st.org to get the conversation started.