What are the responsibilities and job description for the Institutional Performance Librarian Job at San Francisco Conservatory of Music i position at San Francisco Conservatory of Music?
Description
The Institutional Performance Librarian works closely with the Director of Ensemble Operations, ensemble directors, students, and faculty to provide administrative coordination and support to all Large Ensemble and Pre-College activities throughout the school year. They will oversee the management of the SFCM Ensemble Library services to support large ensembles, small & chamber ensembles, RJAM, the opera department, and SFCM’s Pre-College division.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
- Primary coordinator of grand rights, mechanical licenses, synchronization, and permissions for performances, web-streaming, broadcasts, and recordings across the institution.
- Creates and manages a schedule of music rentals / purchases required for the season in collaboration with the artistic team and ensemble directors.
- Ensures that music is ordered in sufficient time to be received prior to the first scheduled rehearsal date, and communicates with music publishers when needed to ensure timely delivery.
- Responsible for the acquisition of rental and permanent parts in collaboration with the SFCM academic library.
- Prepares rental music for return to the publisher by the rental return deadline and files music after performances.
- Supervises the production and coordination of scores, parts (both practice parts and digital parts), bowings, audition-excerpt preparation, and music for ensembles.
- Attends large ensemble rehearsals as needed to ensure any music library or sheet music-related tasks are managed.
- Consults with ensemble directors, SFCM Music Director, and SFCM administration regarding performance library matters.
- Prepares music for ensemble auditions; coordinates with the music director and faculty on specific excerpts, and prepares faculty binders for on-site auditions. Prepares scores and comment sheets for the annual concerto competitions.
- Hires, trains, and oversees all library student workers.
- Manages the instrument library, a collection of instruments and bows provided to students in need of better instruments during their studies at SFCM.
- Maintains orchestra library inventory and database.
- Maintains current inventory of library supplies.
- With the Director of Ensemble Operations, oversees the departmental budget.
- Assists with summer residency and partnership activities as assigned.
- Performs other duties as required.
Requirements
Compensation
This is a full-time position (minimum 35 hours / week) with medical, dental, vision, life / AD&D, and long-term disability insurance in addition to a 403b plan that currently offers a 5% match after two qualifying years of service. The hourly rate is $33.00.
How to Apply
We prefer to receive applications through our website. This position will be open until filled.
About Us
SFCM’s mission is to transform our students artistically, intellectually, professionally, and individually. Through the study of music at the highest level, our students learn to seek achievement in every endeavor, to convert challenges into opportunities, to understand the nature of excellence, and to pursue their dreams with vigor and determination. We believe that inspiring the imagination, cultivating the artist, honing the intellect, and developing the professional are the keys to launching innovative graduates who excel in any field.
SFCM loves to be at the center of good things happening in classical music : attracting the most creative musicians; students and alums doing incredible work ranging from landing positions at the world’s top ensembles to working at the intersection of music and technology in Silicon Valley, to starting their own organizations and even going to medical school; and offering additional programs locally and nationally like the Pre-College curriculum, the Rubin Institute for Music Criticism, and the new Center for Innovative Leadership. On top of this, SFCM recently opened the brand-new Bowes Center, which doubles the campus footprint, provides dorm room housing for the student body, and brings state-of-the-art teaching facilities and three new performance halls to San Francisco’s Civic Center arts corridor.
Equal Opportunity Employer
SFCM is a fully committed equal employment opportunity institution and welcomes applications from all qualified persons, including those who consider themselves to be of a race, national origin or ancestry that is not fully represented in musical arts programs in the United States. Personnel decisions regarding applicants for employment are made without regard to race, color, religion, marital status, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), status as a Vietnam-era veteran or special disabled veteran, age, citizenship, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.
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