Lower School Music Teacher – Part-time

2024-2025 Academic Year

Job Description 

Chelsea Academy is seeking a highly motivated faculty member to teach music to grades K-5 during the 2024-2025 Academic Year.  Desired candidates should have experience with younger students, a knowledge and appreciation of the Catholic intellectual tradition, classical and liberal arts pedagogy, a passion for educating and forming Christian youth, and a spirit of adventure. Important characteristics include: competence in music education, a focus on student learning, classroom management skills, ability to collaborate on a team, and enthusiasm.

Mission:

Chelsea Academy seeks to form confident young men and women educated in the liberal arts tradition and the Catholic faith from Kindergarten through 12th grade. The Academy is committed to promoting and cultivating in its students the life of the mind and the love of truth; an appreciation for the natural world and the heritage of human achievement; enduring friendships; a spirit of adventure; and the virtues of honesty, diligence, courage, piety, and personal responsibility. Through an ethos shaped by Catholic teaching and devotions and a balanced curriculum that includes the humanities, sciences, the arts, and athletics, Chelsea Academy provides students with opportunities for developing themselves into adults who are capable of making positive contributions to their families, places of work, and communities.

Qualifications:

1. Required: Practicing Catholic in good standing
2. Required: Bachelor’s Degree; experience and/or education in music 
3. Preferred: Master’s Degree; Virginia Teacher’s License (not required)
4. Other Desired Qualifications:
5. Polished and effective oral and written communication skills
6. Ability to develop and deliver effective lesson plans
7. Ability to manage well a classroom environment
8. Ability to relate well with students
9. Ability to be flexible in a smaller-school environment
10. Willingness to work with classroom teachers to integrate the discipline within curriculum

Shift Type: approximately 12 hours per week

Compensation and Benefits: Competitive and commensurate with experience.

Application Instructions:

Email or mail cover letter, CV or resume, and three references to the contact below. This posting will remain active until filled.

Contact: Mr. Brian J. Peppiatt, Dean of Lower School 

Email: frontoffice@chelseaacademy.org (Subject: “Music Teacher”)

Chelsea Academy

1190 Progress Drive

Front Royal, VA 22630

Tel: 540.635.0622

More information about Chelsea Academy can be found at www.chelseaacademy.org