Full-Time Commercial Music Faculty / Coordinator of Commercial Ensembles

Posting Number: F0338P

Primary Responsibility :

Faculty member will serve as the coordinator of Commercial Ensembles. This would include scheduling, organizing, assigning, performance planning, academic leadership of, and directing at least one commercial music ensemble. Faculty would be responsible for teaching up to twelve credit hours per semester.

Teaching Responsibility could include: Songwriting 1, Songwriting 2, Lyric Writing Lab, Production 1, Production 2, Mix Techniques, Catalog & Portfolio, Identity & Artistry, Jazz/Pop Theory, Commercial Theory, and/or other course(s) within the faculty member's expertise area(s).

Service Responsibility includes:Recruitment to all School of Music degree programs. Departmental committee work may include undergraduate and graduate curriculum development, season and performance planning, attendance at School of Music faculty meetings and planning retreats. Faculty member will be assigned a number of advisees during his/her second semester.

Creative & Scholarly Activity includes: Continued creative and scholarly activity in his/her discipline. Could include publication, performance, off-campus conducting/composition/performance at the regional, national, and/or international level. Could include participation and involvement in appropriate discipline-specific professional music organizations and conferences. The School of Music supports faculty members in these endeavors. Active Professional affiliations.

Additional Comments & Information:

Lipscomb's School of Music is an innovative, interdisciplinary school seated just south of downtown Nashville. We seek an innovative faculty member to join a vibrant and active faculty, currently serving a population of approx. 150 music students pursuing degrees in commercial music, classical music, music education, music industry studies, composition, worship arts, and strong collaboration with Lipscomb's Film and Theatre programs.

Rank and salary are commensurate with experience.

About Lipscomb:

Lipscomb University is a Christian institution committed to creating students whose academic excellence, faith and practice, and community service reflect our ideals of global citizenship. Our mission is to integrate Christian faith and practice with academic excellence, not only in the classroom but also by involvement in numerous services to the church and the larger community. It is a place that sees the city as our campus and the world as our classroom. This is what grounds us, and it is also what has grown us.

The institution includes both Lipscomb University and Lipscomb Academy. The University enrolls more than 4,600 students, has a 10-year growth rate from 2007-2017 of almost 70 percent and offers students an intellectually challenging academic program of study that includes eight bachelor's degrees with over 100 majors spanning the liberal arts to programs of study in pre-professional and professional disciplines, 24 master's degrees in 70 fields of study, four education specialist degrees and three doctoral degrees. Each year, Lipscomb students contribute an average of 60,000 hours of service to nonprofits and organizations. Classified as a national university by U.S. News & World Report, Lipscomb University is classified as a doctoral university by the Carnegie Foundation, placing it among 7 percent of schools nationwide.

Lipscomb Academy is a leader in PreK-12th schools in the Nashville area and enrolls over 1,200 students in academic programs from 2-year-olds to 12th grade where students are equipped to love to learn, learn to love, and live to serve. Lipscomb Academy's mission as a Christ-centered PreK-12th grade institution has been greater than shaping the minds of children; we guide children to discover their God-given gifts and passions, to develop as a whole person and to become a positive influence in their local and the greater global community. Throughout its existence, the Academy has benefitted from its unique association with Lipscomb University through access to its college-level professors, equipment and resources while delivering rigorous academic opportunities and offering compelling and competitive athletic programs all wrapped in an environment grounded in spiritual formation.

In addition to Lipscomb's residential campuses in the Green Hills area of Nashville, Tennessee, there are two satellite locations and numerous online programs. At the heart of Lipscomb University are more than 860 full-time faculty and staff at the University and 160 full-time faculty and staff at the Academy who are committed to creating a lasting impact beyond the campus, serving the good of humanity to the glory of God. As you learn more about Lipscomb, we hope you find it to be a place that is joyfully and energetically committed to God and a place where you truly want to share and invest your talents and skills.

Non-Discrimination Statement:

Lipscomb University complies with all applicable federal and state nondiscrimination laws and does not engage in prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, religion, sex, age, color, national or ethnic origin, or disability in the administration of its educational policies, programs and activities.