Songwriting Project Coordinator

Incorporated in 2020, Hear Your Song, Inc. () is a 501(c)(3) non‑profit organization that empowers children and teens with serious illnesses and complex health needs to make their voices heard through collaborative songwriting. Hear Your Song provides power and choice—and a microphone—to young people with a wide range of diagnoses, both physical and mental health conditions, that so often deprive them of both power and choice in their day‑to‑day lives.

At Hear Your Song, we believe that every young person deserves the chance to define themselves on their own terms.

In kid‑driven, trauma‑informed songwriting sessions, Hear Your Song volunteers work with youth participants to guide them through the process of writing their own songs about anything they want, from loving pasta to living with epilepsy. Youth choose what parts of the process they want to explore: youth songwriters write their own lyrics and many record their own vocals, compose their own melodies, and produce their own beats, tracks, and lyric videos.

Others suggest ideas for musical style, instrumentation, and tempo, which we then bring to members of our volunteer community to create a professional recording and lyric video of the song that captures, as precisely as possible, what the child imagined.

Hear Your Song partners with pediatric hospitals, camps, schools, and other nonprofit programs that support kids experiencing serious illnesses and complex health needs. Hear Your Song’s volunteers collaborate with kids through campus‑based chapters and at the organization’s national level. All programming is offered to youth entirely free of charge.

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The Songwriting Project Coordinator will collaborate closely with the Songwriting Project Coordinator to oversee Hear Your Song’s music production pipeline, recruiting and supporting volunteers to produce, record, mix, and master youth songwriters’ songs. The Songwriting Project Coordinator will also step into those creative roles on songs whenever appropriate. This position is all about communicating enthusiastically and responsively with volunteers: the Songwriting Project Coordinator is typically new volunteers’ first introduction to the community.

At Hear Your Song, we are all artists who believe in the powerful impact of music and songwriting and who are passionate about giving youth more opportunities to make their voices heard. We are seeking a Songwriting Project Coordinator who recognizes, and resonates with, our organizational values of creativity, collaboration, empowerment, inclusion, flexibility, and joy.

• Support outreach to prospective volunteers and meet with new volunteers
• Match volunteers with song projects in order to ensure each song is produced to meet the youth songwriter’s vision
• Provide artistic and technical support throughout the song production process to volunteer musicians and producers, including to undergraduate volunteers at Hear Your Song’s campus‑based chapters
• Design and support occasional community programming for volunteers

• Act as a songwriting session facilitator in in‑person and virtual sessions
• Collaborate with youth songwriters and volunteers in the composition, production, and recording of songs‑in‑progress

• Maintain database of Hear Your Song’s active volunteers and in‑progress songs, in partnership with programs team
• Participate in Hear Your Song’s amplification efforts, including streaming releases, concert events, and virtual community gatherings

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
• Experience working with youth, especially in arts programming
• Excellent organizational and written/verbal communication skills
• Significant musical background, including performance and production experience in a variety of genres/styles
• Demonstrable commitment to creating and sustaining inclusive spaces
• Flexibility and responsiveness in a creative, collaborative environment
• Experience using G‑Suite,…