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UCLA Music 2025-26 Part-Time Lecturer in Elementary Music Education Apply now to UCLA Music 2025-26 Part-Time Lecturer in Elementary Music Education

Job #JPF10502

+ Music / Herb Alpert School of Music / UCLA

Position overview Position title: Lecturer

Salary range: See Table #15 for the salary range for this position.

https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/\_files/2023-24/july-2023-acad-salary-scales/t15.pdf

A reasonable estimate for this position is $89,913 - $117,315.

Review timeline: Applications close on August 31, 2025 with an anticipated hire date of October 1, 2025.

Application Window

Open date: July 16, 2025

Next review date: Sunday, Aug 31, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.

Final date: Sunday, Aug 31, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

Applications will continue to be accepted until this date.

Position description

The UCLA Music Performance, Composition and Education Department invites applications for a part-time lecturer position in Elementary Music Education. This position will serve as an instructor of a core requirement for students in the Music Education Program for a sabbatical leave replacement. Salary commensurate with applicant qualifications and experience.

Responsibilities will include teaching a course in elementary general music method that includes theories and teaching approaches in elementary school. In addition, supporting student teaching practice in an elementary school once a week will also be required.

Applicants should have a strong background in theories of music teaching and learning, Orff and Kodaly approaches, experiences in teaching children, and the expertise in elementary classroom management and lesson design. A post-baccalaureate degree is preferred.

The application deadline is August 31, 2025, with an anticipated appointment date of October 1, 2025.

Applications should include a cover letter stating interest in the position, a philosophy of teaching, comprehensive resume or curriculum vitae, online video links representing the applicant’s teaching (choral rehearsal and/or conducting performance), a response to UCLA’s Mission Statement and names and contact information for at least three professional references.

Qualifications

Basic qualifications

• Strong background in theories of music teaching and learning, Orff and Kodaly approaches

• Experiences in teaching children

• Expertise in elementary classroom management and lesson design

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree

• University teaching experience

Application Requirements

Document requirements

+ Cover Letter (Optional)

+ Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.

+ Statement of Teaching (Optional)

+ Misc. Online Video Links - Online audio and/or video links representing the applicant’s playing and teaching

+ UCLA Mission Statement - As the nation's premier public research university, UC's mission is the creation, dissemination, preservation and application of knowledge for the betterment of our global society. We have a particular responsibility to the people of the state of California which we express in the excellence of the education we provide, the impact of the research we do, the comprehensive, life-saving medical services we provide, and the public service mission we are devoted to. The University of California promotes the social mobility of its students, equips them with the tools and experience that furthers their ambitions, and regards their accomplishments across the life span as evidence of the profoundly positive impact of higher education.

The UCLA campus has expressed these goals in its strategic plan as follows:

Deepen our engagement with Los Angeles

Expand our reach as a global university

Enhance our research and creative activities

Elevate how we teach

Become a more effective institution

Prompt for candidates for recruitment:

Reflecting on your personal and professional experiences, highlight your past contributions and future commitments to advancing UCLA's mission as embodied in the 2023-28 strategic plan. These accomplishments and ambitions may be discussed in the context of describing your teaching, scholarship, and service

+ Reference check authorization release form - Complete and upload the reference check authorization release form

+ Statement of Research (Optional)

Reference requirements

+ 3-5 required (contact information only)

Contact information only required for a minimum of 3 individuals.

Apply link: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10502

Help contact: [email protected]

About UCLA

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.

The University of California 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, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law.

As a condition of employment, the finalist will be required to disclose if they are subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct, are currently being investigated for misconduct, left a position during an investigation for alleged misconduct, or have filed an appeal with a previous employer.

+ “Misconduct” means any violation of the policies or laws governing conduct at the applicant’s previous place of employment, including, but not limited to, violations of policies or laws prohibiting sexual harassment, sexual assault, or other forms of harassment, discrimination, dishonesty, or unethical conduct, as defined by the employer.

+ UC Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Policy (https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000385/SVSH)

+ UC Anti-Discrimination Policy for Employees, Students and Third Parties

+ APM - 035: Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination in Employment (https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/\_files/apm/apm-035.pdf)

Job location

Los Angeles, CA