Job Description

The Community College of Aurora serves our diverse community by providing high-quality instruction and support services to prepare students for transfer and employment. We are particularly interested in applicants that demonstrate a commitment to working with individuals and groups from diverse identities, including but not limited to: socioeconomic, cultural, sexual orientation, gender identity expression, disability, multilingual learners, veterans, non-traditional, race and ethnic backgrounds.

More than 20 different languages and 60 countries are represented at CCA. In addition to traditional degree and certificate programs, CCA offers non-credit professional development courses, customized training, and economic and workforce development resources to employer partners and individual professionals seeking to enhance the capacity and productivity of their workforce or individual knowledge and skills. The college centers diversity, equity, and inclusion and we actively seek to employee partners who want to join us in working to reducing outcome gaps among our diverse student population.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Visual and Performing Arts Department at the Community College of Aurora serves our diverse community by providing high-quality instruction and support services to prepare students for transfer and employment. With a strong foundation in diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as student-centering practices, the V&PA program offers classes and certificates in Art, Graphic Design, Music & Theatre.
We are seeking a qualified music instructor to join our team and teach audio production, audio postproduction, live audio, music business, music producing, music marketing, project management and entrepreneurship.

The successful candidate must embrace and exemplify the college values of respect, collaboration, quality, access, diversity, and inclusion at all levels of engagement. This person must be familiar with the issues facing the music professional today by having professional industry experience for CTE credentialing; be skillful in the use of technology in education and in music fields; be fully committed to equity diversity and inclusion; and show passion for teaching and commitment to student success.

Examples of Duties / Knowledge & Skills

• Provide music majors and students with a strong interest in music a basic understanding of the music audio production and music business process:
• Fundamentals of audio/music production and signal flow,
• Fundamentals of sound, acoustics, and microphones
• Digital and analog technology
• Recording
• Mixing
• Music Project Management
• Music Producing
• Live Audio

Minimum qualifications & Requirements
CRS 23-60-304 indicates that postsecondary CTE faculty, instructors, or part-time hourly experts (concurrent enrollment and non-concurrent enrollment) must hold a valid CTE postsecondary credential. This credential ensures that the CTE program provides students with the well qualified instructors possessing appropriate occupational and educational experience.

The qualifications and CTE credential eligibility criteria for this position are:

• Content Knowledge Evidence - An Associate's (or relevant current industry license or certification) Bachelor's degree or Master's degree with 18 discipline-related credits in Music Production, Music Engineering, Sound Recording Technology, Audio Production, Audio Technology, Recording Arts, Keyboarding. from a regionally accredited college or university.
• Unofficial transcripts must be provided as part of the application materials.
• Occupational Experience Evidence - For an Associate Degree or Current Industry License or Certification, 4000 hours within last 7 years of paid and/or unpaid professional industry experience (non-teaching) in related field (1-year full time equates to approximately 2000 hours). For a Bachelor or Master's Degree, 2000 hours within last 7 years of paid and/or unpaid professional industry experience (non-teaching) in related field (1-year full time equates to approximately 2000 hours)

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