Violin​/Viola Long-Term Substitute Teacher - Orange County, CA

Violin/Viola Long-Term Substitute Teacher

Ensemble Schools is seeking a fun, experienced, and professional Violin/Viola long-term substitute teacher to teach part-time for our Lake Forest, CA school Glee Music Academy. We are looking for teachers who will instruct in person at our studio!

We are currently looking for a teacher to cover a part-time schedule from an absent teacher Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays from 3pm-8pm. Option to extend as a regular teacher with available teaching hours Wednesdays & Fridays from 3pm-8pm, Saturdays from 9am-2pm. Teachers can set their availability within our open hours as needed, but both students and school staff appreciate consistency and preference will be given to candidates with greater availability.

Additional hours and days can be added as studio space is available, experience working with younger students and neurodivergent students is preferred. The ability to teach other instruments is a plus.

Successful candidates will have a strong music background evidenced by a degree in music performance, pedagogy, or equivalent performing experience, a demonstrated love of teaching, experience working with young musicians, a robust appreciation for punctuality, reliable transportation, and the ability to pass a routine background check.

Instructor pay is commensurate with experience and will be in the range of $32-$36/hour. A 401(K) program with employer matching is available to all of our employees after 30 days on the job. Health benefit packages are available for all part- and full-time employees at Ensemble.

Ensemble Schools is a collaborative network of community-driven Music & Dance schools. While each school maintains its unique identity, they share resources to ensure collective success. This posting is for Glee Music Academy. Glee Music Academy is located in Lake Forest, and has been serving the local community with music lessons for over a decade. We have a clean, spacious, and beautiful music studio: complete with 9 teaching rooms, a recital hall, break room, and music lab.

Our staff are warm, courteous, professional, and incredibly passionate about teaching music. We strive to create an environment that not only promotes musical excellence for our students, but also fosters and nurtures a life-long love for music making.

Empowering artists by safeguarding the businesses that love them. Our values include:

• Stewardship: We are caretakers of our local businesses and communities, helping them thrive by making it easy for our teachers to cultivate an enriching learning experience for students.
• Growth: Our teachers are integral to our success, and we are committed to their professional growth. As an ever-growing partnership of music and dance schools, we seek to increase the high-quality resources provided to our schools and teachers.
• Stagehands: Our Shared Services team runs in the background to support our schools. By doing this, we champion our teachers and students to be the real stars of the show!

Please send a resume and brief cover letter to Rachel Stoltz through this portal to apply for this position. Diversity is a strength of our performing arts community, and we invite all those meeting the above criteria to apply.

Job Type: Part-time Pay: $32-$36 per hour

Ensemble Performing Arts is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status or disability status, or genetic information. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with applicable law.

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