About the role
About this Position
The Education Team Lead will work with an innovative team in the delivery, management, and evaluation of education and public programs for the National Music Centre. Programs at NMC connect audiences through music, story, and experience and encompass a wide range of experiences for diverse audiences, and include live music performance; education, school and after-school programs for youth; artist residencies and development programs; public programs, lectures, and panel discussions, etc.
This is a 1.00 FTE salaried position with an initial contract to begin early to mid-September until July 3rd 2026, subject to renewal.
Responsibilities
Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
School Program Delivery & Oversight (Primary Focus)
- Lead the delivery of curriculum-aligned school programs an average of 3–4 days per week, ensuring content is engaging, responsive, inclusive, and age-appropriate.
- Provide on-the-ground supervision, mentorship, and real-time feedback to educators delivering school programs.
- Model best practices for visitor engagement and program facilitation to other educators.
- Act as lead facilitator for high-priority or large groups, and provide classroom management support when needed.
- Step in to cover educator breaks as needed, ensuring continuous support and coverage throughout the day.
- Mitigate scheduling challenges and proactively adjust daily assignments, roles, and group coverage to maintain a smooth and efficient program flow.
Resource Maintenance
- Oversee instrument donation initiatives.
- Ensure program spaces are properly re-set and maintained after each use, with clear expectations communicated to educators regarding baseline setup and cleanliness.
- Oversee cleaning, storage and maintenance protocols for instruments, artifacts, and supplies.
- Monitor the condition of teaching resources and instruments, ensuring they are properly inventoried, tuned, re-strung, and safe for use.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date inventory records and communicate proactively to Programs Manager about any repair, tuning, or replacement needs.
- With support from Programs Manager, allocate production budget to resource maintenance and replacement as needed.
Educator Leadership and Mentorship
- Lead daily huddles, ensuring clear division of roles and responsibilities and facilitate post-program debriefs.
- Help onboard new educators and provide ongoing coaching, feedback and peer mentorship.
- Step in where necessary to provide coverage during team absences, lateness etc.
- Work with team to support ongoing program development in response to feedback from students, teachers, colleagues and supervisors; foster dialogue about new programs and initiate program development, in consultation with the Alberta Curriculum, where time and resources permit.
Other Duties as Assigned
- Assist with planning and delivery of special events (Family Day, Canada Day, Free building-wide events), camps, tours, or weekend public programs where needed.
- Represent the Programming team in cross-departmental communication when needed.
Qualifications
The successful candidate will possess the following skills and attributes:
- Proven effectiveness as a team leader of peers.
- An intimate understanding of the Alberta curriculum is an asset.
- A holistic understanding and passion for National Music Centre’s mission, goals and values.
- A demonstrable history in developing, managing, delivering, promoting and evaluating music and/or education-based programming.
- Familiarity with trends in education and public programming at museums and cultural institutions, including live interpretation and discovery spaces for younger audiences.
- Takes initiative in identifying and implementing improvements to programs, processes, and workflows.
- Demonstrates ownership of projects by following through from concept to completion with minimal supervision.
- Support team goals by showing initiative in collaboration, communication, and problem-solving.
- Possession of superior writing and oral presentation skills.
- Possession of excellent organizational, conflict management, creative problem solving and training skills.
- Adaptable, flexible, and function effectively in an active team environment.
- Ability to work under pressure and coordinate numerous activities and groups of people who need to cooperate to achieve maximum efficiency.
- Proficiency in both MAC-based and PC-based computer platforms.
- Project management experience is an asset.
- Music performance capabilities is desirable.
- French-English language bilingualism, or strong spoken skills in a second language, is an asset.
Key Relationships
This role collaborates regularly with the following NMC Staff:
- School and Public Programs Educators
- Programs Coordinator
- Programs Managers
- Director of Programs
Commitment to Fair Hiring Practices
National Music Centre (NMC) believes in the power and importance of fair hiring practices in the workplace, and we will ensure equal opportunity for all qualified applicants to apply.
Applications
Qualified applicants should send resume in PDF form to paige.foley@nmc.ca no later than September 10, 2025. Please ensure that your full name is in the file name (ex: Smith_John_cover_letter_resume) and the subject line of your email is: Education Team Lead (Full-time). No phone calls please.
About the role
About this Position
The Education Team Lead will work with an innovative team in the delivery, management, and evaluation of education and public programs for the National Music Centre. Programs at NMC connect audiences through music, story, and experience and encompass a wide range of experiences for diverse audiences, and include live music performance; education, school and after-school programs for youth; artist residencies and development programs; public programs, lectures, and panel discussions, etc.
This is a 1.00 FTE salaried position with an initial contract to begin early to mid-September until July 3rd 2026, subject to renewal.
Responsibilities
Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
School Program Delivery & Oversight (Primary Focus)
- Lead the delivery of curriculum-aligned school programs an average of 3–4 days per week, ensuring content is engaging, responsive, inclusive, and age-appropriate.
- Provide on-the-ground supervision, mentorship, and real-time feedback to educators delivering school programs.
- Model best practices for visitor engagement and program facilitation to other educators.
- Act as lead facilitator for high-priority or large groups, and provide classroom management support when needed.
- Step in to cover educator breaks as needed, ensuring continuous support and coverage throughout the day.
- Mitigate scheduling challenges and proactively adjust daily assignments, roles, and group coverage to maintain a smooth and efficient program flow.
Resource Maintenance
- Oversee instrument donation initiatives.
- Ensure program spaces are properly re-set and maintained after each use, with clear expectations communicated to educators regarding baseline setup and cleanliness.
- Oversee cleaning, storage and maintenance protocols for instruments, artifacts, and supplies.
- Monitor the condition of teaching resources and instruments, ensuring they are properly inventoried, tuned, re-strung, and safe for use.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date inventory records and communicate proactively to Programs Manager about any repair, tuning, or replacement needs.
- With support from Programs Manager, allocate production budget to resource maintenance and replacement as needed.
Educator Leadership and Mentorship
- Lead daily huddles, ensuring clear division of roles and responsibilities and facilitate post-program debriefs.
- Help onboard new educators and provide ongoing coaching, feedback and peer mentorship.
- Step in where necessary to provide coverage during team absences, lateness etc.
- Work with team to support ongoing program development in response to feedback from students, teachers, colleagues and supervisors; foster dialogue about new programs and initiate program development, in consultation with the Alberta Curriculum, where time and resources permit.
Other Duties as Assigned
- Assist with planning and delivery of special events (Family Day, Canada Day, Free building-wide events), camps, tours, or weekend public programs where needed.
- Represent the Programming team in cross-departmental communication when needed.
Qualifications
The successful candidate will possess the following skills and attributes:
- Proven effectiveness as a team leader of peers.
- An intimate understanding of the Alberta curriculum is an asset.
- A holistic understanding and passion for National Music Centre’s mission, goals and values.
- A demonstrable history in developing, managing, delivering, promoting and evaluating music and/or education-based programming.
- Familiarity with trends in education and public programming at museums and cultural institutions, including live interpretation and discovery spaces for younger audiences.
- Takes initiative in identifying and implementing improvements to programs, processes, and workflows.
- Demonstrates ownership of projects by following through from concept to completion with minimal supervision.
- Support team goals by showing initiative in collaboration, communication, and problem-solving.
- Possession of superior writing and oral presentation skills.
- Possession of excellent organizational, conflict management, creative problem solving and training skills.
- Adaptable, flexible, and function effectively in an active team environment.
- Ability to work under pressure and coordinate numerous activities and groups of people who need to cooperate to achieve maximum efficiency.
- Proficiency in both MAC-based and PC-based computer platforms.
- Project management experience is an asset.
- Music performance capabilities is desirable.
- French-English language bilingualism, or strong spoken skills in a second language, is an asset.
Key Relationships
This role collaborates regularly with the following NMC Staff:
- School and Public Programs Educators
- Programs Coordinator
- Programs Managers
- Director of Programs
Commitment to Fair Hiring Practices
National Music Centre (NMC) believes in the power and importance of fair hiring practices in the workplace, and we will ensure equal opportunity for all qualified applicants to apply.
Applications
Qualified applicants should send resume in PDF form to paige.foley@nmc.ca no later than September 10, 2025. Please ensure that your full name is in the file name (ex: Smith_John_cover_letter_resume) and the subject line of your email is: Education Team Lead (Full-time). No phone calls please.