Education Coordinator

Bagaduce Music | Blue Hill and Surrounding Coastal and Central Maine

Hours:

20-30 hours per week

Reports to:

Executive Director

Start date:

Fall 2026, or as soon as filled
Final date to receive applications:
Applications reviewed as received; position open until filled

Bagaduce Music has been building a musical community on the coast of Maine since 1983. It started as a lending library that has grown to 240,000 titles which circulate around the world, and is now growing into a home for classes, ensembles, jams, and concerts. Our mission, at its simplest, involves helping people make, share, and enjoy music in Maine and around the world.

We are growing the organization program by program, without a giant endowment, rooted in the musical communities of central and coastal Maine. We look for capable, cheerful, hardworking teammates who care about their neighbors, work well without a manager over their shoulder, and treat this with the care of a fine craft. If you like being trusted to figure things out and get after it, you will feel at home here.

In our programs we teach fiddle, banjo, mandolin, guitar, ukulele, song crafting, and other group instrumental courses. The Belfast Community Chorus, the Trad Song Ensemble, the Belfast Spelmanslag, the Northern New England Ensemble and several other ensembles are our initiatives and a key part of our educational model. We run jam sessions, a concert series, workshops connected to the concert series, and are trying a pilot project called Music in the Schools.

We are a small staff with a helpful volunteer corps, and we’re in the middle of a strategic planning process that runs to our 50th anniversary in 2033.

The job at its core involves running the year-round arc of semesters and summer camps, from scheduling and enrollment through teacher and student communication, records, and reporting. It can be a creative role. You will partner with the Executive Director, the board, and our teachers to notice gaps in what our community wants and needs, spot future teachers already in our orbit, and help shape what next semester and next summer look like.

The job includes managing systems to keep track of educational spaces including the various rooms across our campus, the performance hall and Bagaduce House.

This is a hands-on job at a small organization. You will coordinate courses and schedules with teachers, run registration, process scholarship applications, and team up with the events admin to make educational programming happen alongside concerts. You will build a class calendar and be present during class sessions, including a warm presence during shared dinners, to answer questions and help things run smoothly.

You will also carry some of the education-focused marketing work: posters, press releases about education programs, and social media that supports classes and camps. This is not the same as being our organization-wide marketing lead; that hat lives elsewhere on the team. But education programs need their own storyteller.

• Build and maintain the annual calendar of classes, workshops, ensembles, jams, and summer camps
• Coordinate scheduling, contracts, and logistics with teaching artists
• Support instructors in their long-range planning
• Coordinate Music in the Schools
• Administer summer programming: run our own camps, host rentals like Song weavers, and help design new offerings
• Notice gaps in the community and people who could become future teachers, and bring those ideas back to the team
• Answer day-to-day questions from students, families, and teachers

• Administer our Opus1 enrollment platform: registration, scholarships, feedback, and communication with students and teachers
• Maintain…