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Description:

The Berea College Department of Music invites applications for a two-year, full-time Visiting Lecturer or Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, beginning August 2025. Responsibilities include directing a Mariachi or Traditional Latin-American Ensemble in the applicant’s area of expertise, teaching music theory, aural skills, and applied lessons. A terminal degree or equivalent professional experience and post-secondary teaching experience is required. The successful candidate will demonstrate excellence in directing a Mariachi or Traditional Latin-American music ensemble in their area of expertise, have an informed understanding of Berea College’s unique mission, and a commitment to fostering diversity through teaching, creative work, and service. Plusses include expertise in applied guitar/brass instruction, world music, and/or music production.

Applications must include a letter of interest (cover letter), CV, graduate transcripts (Master’s degree required; Doctorate preferred), contact information for three letters of references, and video links to unedited recordings 20-30 minutes in length of: (1) a Mariachi or Traditional Latin-American ensemble rehearsal in the applicant’s area of expertise, (2) a solo performance with at least 10 minutes on the candidate’s primary instrument, and (3) a sight-singing and ear training teaching demonstration. Review of applications begins March 15 and will continue until the position is filled.

Your Key Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include directing a Mariachi or Traditional Latin-American Ensemble in the applicant’s area of expertise, teaching music theory, aural skills, and applied lessons.

Founded in 1855, Berea College is nationally recognized as the first coeducational and interracial college in the South. Berea has a longstanding commitment to interracial education and is one of the most racially diverse private liberal arts colleges in the United States. With an emphasis on service to Appalachia and beyond, Berea enrolls more than 1,500 students from 46 states and U.S. territories and more than 70 countries. Berea College admits students who are unable to afford tuition and provides all of them with a no-tuition promise, valued at more than $204,000. Berea’s students excel in the College’s supportive yet demanding academic environment, and most are the first in their families to attend college. As one of only nine federally recognized Work Colleges, all Berea students are expected to work 10-12 hours weekly in various positions across campus. Berea College is listed #20 in overall ranking in the U.S. by the Wall Street Journal/College Pulse college rankings, 2023. The Washington Monthly ranks Berea College #2 Best Liberal Arts College and #1 in Social Mobility, 2023. Money Magazine ranks Berea #20 Best Overall College and #10 for Best in the South, 2023. Berea College is also the only institution in Kentucky to receive the 5-Star Rating from Money Magazine, 2023.

Located where the Bluegrass Region meets the Cumberland Mountains, the town of Berea (pop. 16,000) lies forty miles south of Lexington and is approximately two hours from Cincinnati, Louisville, and Knoxville. More information about Berea College is available at www.berea.edu.

Berea College, in light of its mission in the tradition of impartial love and social equality, welcomes all people of the earth to learn and work here.

Berea College is always looking for talented, self-motivated individuals to join our team.

Berea College is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.

Our Benefits:
Berea College offers a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees and their families including health care, dental, vision, retirement, health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability and an Employee Assistance Program. The benefit package also includes access to the Child Development Laboratory for children of College Staff, ages 6 weeks to 6 years, Seabury Center Membership, Staff Development Funds and Tuition Reimbursement.

Eligible staff employees also receive paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave.

Part-time employees who work an average of 24 hours per week over the course of a year, receive benefits on a pro-rated basis.

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