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About the Role

The Associate Director, Secondary Education Programs leads the design, management, and continuous improvement of the Symphony’s education programs and concert offerings for middle and high school students. This role is responsible for the development and execution of the SF Symphony’s Music and Mentors program, a cornerstone of the organization’s partnership with SFUSD. The Associate Director oversees a faculty of 25+ teaching artists, including recruitment, contracting, and supervision, and manages program implementation across 23 participating campuses.

Responsibilities

Direct the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of the Symphony’s secondary education initiatives, serving as primary operational lead for the Music and Mentors program across 23 SFUSD campuses.
Act as key liaison to 25+ site music teachers, school principals, and district arts leaders.
Recruit, contract, train, and supervise a faculty of 25+ professional Teaching Artists.
Evaluate pedagogical delivery and collaborate with Human Resources to ensure full compliance with district and organizational policies.
Assess technical and instrumental needs across partner school sites.
Oversee instrument repair workflows and supply procurement.
Negotiate with specialized vendors and supervise equipment distribution to campuses.
Direct secondary student ticketing initiatives and concert engagement at Davies Symphony Hall.
Lead logistics tied with any lobby activations for these concerts and produce annual Music and Mentors events.
Administer the Crescendo Scholarship Initiative, coordinating candidate identification, student progress tracking, and family communication.
Provide quarterly updates on the Crescendo Scholarship program to the Development team.
Manage the secondary education program budget.
Oversee Teaching Artist hourly payroll processing, track expenditures, support monthly accounting closes, and contribute to quarterly financial projections.
Lead quantitative and qualitative program assessments to measure educational impact.
Partner with the Development department to provide narrative metrics, participant data, and collateral for grant proposals and donor stewardship.
Represent the San Francisco Symphony and Education Department at off-site school performances and community festivals.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in music, music education, arts administration, or humanities; or equivalent professional experience (5–7 years in arts education administration, with preference for music education backgrounds).
Extensive knowledge of instrumental music.
Strong familiarity with band and orchestral string instruments, including common maintenance, repair workflows, and instructional supplies.
Familiarity with pedagogical principles of music instruction and social-emotional development for adolescents.
Demonstrated experience managing program budgets, accounting reconciliations, and hourly payroll processing.
Strong interpersonal, diplomatic, and intercultural communication skills, with proven success collaborating with diverse constituencies.
High degree of situational awareness, organizational rigor, and the ability to handle confidential student and personnel information with discretion.
Able to work regular office hours with intermittent evening and weekend commitments for concerts, community events, and school visits.
Experience working in public schools and/or summer camps is a plus.
Experience working with special education students is a plus.
Familiarity with music history and orchestral repertoire is a plus.
Experience with program evaluation, student assessment methodology, or educational research is a plus.

Skills

Music education
Arts administration
Instrumental music knowledge
Band and orchestral string instruments
Music instruction pedagogy
Social-emotional development
Program budget management
Accounting reconciliation
Payroll processing
Interpersonal communication
Diplomatic communication
Intercultural communication
Collaboration
Situational awareness
Organizational rigor
Confidentiality
Program evaluation
Student assessment methodology
Educational research

Location

San Francisco, CA

Work Type

Full Time
Hybrid

Experience Level

Experienced

Education Level

Bachelor's degree

Salary/Compensations

$77850.00 - $84720.00

About the Company

The San Francisco Symphony is among the most adventurous and innovative arts institutions in the United States, celebrated for its artistic excellence, creative performance concepts, award-winning recordings, and standard-setting education and community engagement programs.
Since it was established in 1911, the Symphony has grown in acclaim under a succession of distinguished music directors.
The San Francisco Symphony presents more than 200 concerts and presentations annually for an audience of nearly 350,000 in its home of Davies Symphony Hall and around the Bay Area.
As a cornerstone of its mission, the San Francisco Symphony provides some of the most extensive education and community programs offered by any American orchestra.
The Symphony’s free music education experiences engage students in grades 1–12 throughout the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), serving more than 25,000 students annually.
In 2001, the SF Symphony became the first American orchestra to launch its own in-house record label, SFS Media.
In 2023, the San Francisco Symphony partnered with Apple for the launch of a new classical music streaming app, Apple Music Classical, and has since released 17 spatial audio recordings of live concert performances through the app.
San Francisco Symphony radio broadcasts, the first in the nation to feature symphonic music when they began in 1926, today carry the Orchestra’s concerts across the country.
In 2004, the SF Symphony launched the groundbreaking multimedia Keeping Score series on PBS-TV and the web.
In 2014, the San Francisco Symphony inaugurated SoundBox, an experimental and eclectic live music series, which takes place in an alternative performance space located backstage at Davies Symphony Hall.
For its adventurous programming, the Symphony has been honored 19 times by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, and the Symphony’s recordings have garnered France’s Grand Prix du Disque and Britain’s Gramophone Award, as well as 17 Grammy® Awards.

Equal Opportunity

In alignment with the values statement above, the San Francisco Symphony is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.