Education Coordinator

Bagaduce Music | Blue Hill and Surrounding Coastal and Central Maine Hours: 20-30 hours per week Reports to: Executive Director Start date: Fall 2026, or as soon as filled Application deadline: Applications reviewed as received; position open until filled About Bagaduce Music Bagaduce Music has been building a musical community on the coast of Maine since 1983. It started as a lending library that has grown to 240,000 titles which circulate around the world, and is now growing into a home for classes, ensembles, jams, and concerts. Our mission, at its simplest, involves helping people make, share, and enjoy music in Maine and around the world. We are growing the organization program by program, without a giant endowment, rooted in the musical communities of central and coastal Maine. We look for capable, cheerful, hardworking teammates who care about their neighbors, work well without a manager over their shoulder, and treat this with the care of a fine craft. If you like being trusted to figure things out and get after it, you will feel at home here. In our programs we teach fiddle, banjo, mandolin, guitar, ukulele, songcrafting, and other group instrumental courses. The Belfast Community Chorus, the Trad Song Ensemble, the Belfast Spelmanslag, the Northern New England Ensemble and several other ensembles are our initiatives and a key part of our educational model. We run jam sessions, a concert series, workshops connected to the concert series, and are trying a pilot project called Music in the Schools. We are a small staff with a helpful volunteer corps, and we’re in the middle of a strategic planning process that runs to our 50th anniversary in 2033. The Role The job at its core involves running the year-round arc of semesters and summer camps, from scheduling and enrollment through teacher and student communication, records, and reporting. It can be a creative role. You will partner with the Executive Director, the board, and our teachers to notice gaps in what our community wants and needs, spot future teachers already in our orbit, and help shape what next semester and next summer look like. The job includes managing systems to keep track of educational spaces including the various rooms across our campus, the performance hall and Bagaduce House. This is a hands-on job at a small organization. You will coordinate courses and schedules with teachers, run registration, process scholarship applications, and team up with the events admin to make educational programming happen alongside concerts. You will build a class calendar and be present during class sessions, including a warm presence during shared dinners, to answer questions and help things run smoothly. You will also carry some of the education-focused marketing work: posters, press releases about education programs, and social media that supports classes and camps. This is not the same as being our organization-wide marketing lead; that hat lives elsewhere on the team. But education programs need their own storyteller. What You Will Do Education Build and maintain the annual calendar of classes, workshops, ensembles, jams, and summer camps Coordinate scheduling, contracts, and logistics with teaching artists Support instructors in their long-range planning Coordinate Music in the Schools Administer summer programming: run our own camps, host rentals like Songweavers, and help design new offerings Notice gaps in the community and people who could become future teachers, and bring those ideas back to the team Answer day-to-day questions from students, families, and teachers Systems and records Administer our Opus1 enrollment platform: registration, scholarships, feedback, and communication with students and teachers Maintain accurate enrollment, attendance, and scholarship records Own the education section of our website; build and maintain an FAQ so students can self-serve the common questions Prepare program reports for the Executive Director, the board, and our funders When needed, serve as the on-site point person for our Thursday evening programming in Belfast and in other locations as they arise, and support teaching staff in their efforts Maintain the day-to-day relationship with hosts Support off-campus ensembles and jams Education marketing Build posters, write short press releases, and send items to local media for classes, workshops, and camps Support education-program social media, email, and website updates in coordination with our marketing coordinator Own the storytelling for education programs; organization-wide marketing sits elsewhere on the team Spaces Campus spaces Manage campus space bookings and rentals, and help build a self-serve system for reserving the Performance Hall and practice rooms. Coordinate room use across campus so classes, concerts, meetings, and rentals do not collide. Manage Bagaduce House hospitality for visiting teachers and performers: keep the Airbnb-style calendar cu