Education and Ensemble Coordinator OrchKids - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Music education Baltimore youth

Title: Education and Ensemble Coordinator
Department:Orch Kids
Reports to:Director of Education
Classification: Full-Time
Location: Baltimore, MD
Job

Start Date:

August 2026
Salary: $45,000

THE BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA and ORCHKIDS
For over a century, the BSO has been recognized as one of America’s leading orchestras and one of Maryland’s most significant cultural institutions. As the largest cultural institution in Maryland, the BSO is internationally recognized and locally admired for its innovation, performances and recordings, and educational community initiatives including Orch Kids.
Orch Kids uses music as a vehicle for students to develop 21st century skills (creativity, collaboration, leadership, etc.) that are transferable to all areas of their lives. Marin Alsop, Music Director Laureate of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Orch Kids Founding Director, shaped Orch Kids into the cornerstone of the BSO’s community engagement efforts across the city with her artistic leadership and direction.

Orch Kids was founded in 2008 with 30 students at one elementary school with seed funding from Marin Alsop and Founding Donors Rheda Becker and Robert

E. Meyerhoff.

Orch Kids now works with eight schools in Baltimore City, serving over 1,800 children from Pre‑K through 12th grade during and after school.

In collaboration with several community partners Orch Kids provides music education, instruments, academic assistance, meals, mental health resources, connection to social services, as well as performance and mentorship opportunities at no cost to students and families. Orch Kids is an acknowledged leader in the El Sistema movement throughout the world.

The Orch Kids Education and Ensemble Coordinator plays a critical role in supporting curricular and ensemble initiatives for Orch Kids students. The Education Coordinator works closely with the Director of Education to ensure pedagogical and artistic quality and is responsible for critical oversight of the ensemble programs. This position also serves as a liaison on behalf of the program’s Teaching Artists, supporting their teaching practices as well as teaching resource needs, from resource procurement (books, sheet music, etc.)

to substitute teaching and coordination of the substitute teacher list. Working closely with the Orch Kids Ensemble Directors, the Education Coordinator is a key figure in contributing to both short‑term and long‑term strategic plans for ensembles, including library oversight and management, maintenance of music copies and part copying preparation. In collaboration with the Orch Kids Education Team, the Education Coordinator is a critical liaison for community partnerships communication, teacher professional development, and student assessment processes.

The position is a part of the Education Team at Orch Kids but regularly interacts/collaborates with all Orch Kids team members.

• Weekly sheet music and ensemble supply set-up needs at sites
  Attend monthly ensemble leaders meetings
  Assist in planning intensive ensemble rehearsals, and student seating auditions, and ensemble schedule, in collaboration with the Director of Education and Associate Director of Ensembles and Chamber Music
  Oversee sheet music preparation, photocopying, student folder preparation for new repertoire each semester
  Digital and physical library maintenance
  Creation of and regular maintenance of ensemble stage plots using Vizeo software
  Logistics and communication support between program site staff, teaching artists, and education team members as needed

• Coordinating and communicating with substitute teaching artist list for all instrumental teacher substitute requests
  Stepping in as a substitute music instructor or supervising students in music-based activities in the occasion that no other substitute can be found
  Support the logistics of teacher observations and feedback sessions in collaboration with Director of Education
  Assist with teaching artist professional development training (supporting logistics for and attending all training sessions)

Communication with strategic institutional partnerships…