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Summary of Position

The Department of Music at Allegheny College invites applications for a tenure-track Director of Instrumental Activities, beginning August 2025. The successful candidate will be a dynamic teacher and musician; they will conduct the symphonic band and facilitate all aspects of instrumental performance, including civic orchestra, jazz band, chamber groups, and individual lessons.

In addition to courses in Music, they will teach in Allegheny's college-wide speaking and writing seminars and contribute to its holistic advising system. Qualifications include: a documented history of ensemble leadership and classroom teaching; ability to teach music theory at introductory and intermediate levels; and completion of a terminal degree in Music no later than August 2025.  

Allegheny’s instrumental ensembles include undergraduate students and community members; the successful candidate will be able to foster community and musical excellence across participants with varied interests, abilities, and commitments. Applicants should highlight their ability to contribute subject courses to the music program and to a broad liberal arts curriculum as well as their understanding of how ensembles contribute to the educational and cultural life of a small, private college.

YOUR FUTURE TEAM

Our faculty are active scholars and exemplary teachers, who receive strong institutional support for ongoing professional development, travel, and research. Allegheny College is dedicated to a balanced teacher-scholar model that lies at the core of Liberal Arts colleges.

THE HIRING PROCESS

Send application materials including cover letter, statement of teaching philosophy, a diversity statement (describing how you have/could incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion into your work), CV, and list of three references as a single PDF file to the Office of Human Resources, Allegheny College, 520 North Main Street, Meadville PA 16335 or by email to employment@allegheny.edu. Review of applications will begin January 2, 2025, and will continue until the position is filled.

About Allegheny College

Allegheny College, founded in 1815, is one of the nation’s oldest and most innovative four-year colleges where multidisciplinary learning breaks the conventional mold. It is one of the few colleges in the United States with a unique requirement to choose both a major and minor for graduation, to provide students with a cross-disciplinary path in the sciences and humanities for educational depth and intellectual growth. Located in Meadville, Pennsylvania, Allegheny College is one of 44 colleges featured in Loren Pope’s “Colleges That Change Lives.” In its 2025 rankings, U.S. News & World Report recognized Allegheny College as one of the country’s 100 top national liberal arts colleges — and including in the top 25 Undergraduate Teaching, Undergraduate Research/Creative Projects, First-Year Experience, and Senior Capstone.Allegheny was honored as the top baccalaureate college in the nation for undergraduate research in the Council of Undergraduate Research’s inaugural Award for Undergraduate Research Accomplishment (AURA). Allegheny’s undergraduate residential education prepares students for successful, meaningful lives by promoting students’ intellectual, moral, and social developme...nt and encouraging personal and civic responsibility. Allegheny’s faculty and staff combine high academic standards and a commitment to the exchange of knowledge with a supportive approach to learning. Graduates are equipped to think critically and creatively, write clearly, speak persuasively, and meet challenges in a diverse, interconnected world.

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