Sound Designer/Collaborative Musician

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Posted: 01-Jun-24

Location: Greenville, North Carolina

Salary: Open

Internal Number: 63896

Job Duties:

The Sound Designer/Collaborative Musician position is a collaborative, dynamic, and student-centered position that professionally serves the East Carolina University School of Theatre and Dance.
Duties and Responsibilities:
45% Production Responsibilities
Serve as a Sound Designer and Sound Technician for SOTD productions, including the ECU/Loessin Playhouse and student performances.
20% Teaching Responsibilities
Teach Sound Design courses to Design and Production Majors and Minors.
35% Collaborative Musician
Serve as musical accompanist for Dance classes.
This position is imperative to support our rigorous academic training for our Dance and Theatre students and presenting professional-level productions to the ECU community and greater Eastern North Carolina region through our ECU/Loessin Playhouse Series. This position serves a dual role of serving as a Sound Design, Sound Technician, and Dance & Musical Theatre Musical Accompanist for our unit. These roles provide a required instructional component for our School. The position provides critical EHRA non-teaching services to three vital, mission-related specific units of the School of Theatre and Dance – BFA Dance Performance degree, BFA Musical Theatre degree, and to the co-curricular production mission for the SOTD's ECU/Loessin Playhouse and Dance Theatre; as well as, teaching essential Sound design content to our Design and Production Majors and Minors.

Special Instructions To Application:

In order to be considered for this position, applicants must complete a candidate profile online via the PeopleAdmin system and submit a resume/cv, cover letter, and a list of three references, including contact information. Additionally, applicants that possess the preferred education and experience must also possess the minimum education/experience, if applicable.
Proper documentation of identity, employability, and official transcripts are required upon offer of employment. Please be aware that if selected as a candidate of choice, 2-3 letters of recommendation will be required. An automatic email will be sent to the individuals entered by the applicant in the references section of the PeopleAdmin applicant tracking system. Letter of recommendation submitted via the applicant tracking system will be verified and considered towards meeting this requirement.
Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until position is filled. Information about the ECU School of Theatre and Dance can be found at www.ecu.edu/theatredance/ .
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Minimum Education/Experience:

Master of Fine Arts degree in Sound Design is required.

Full time or Part time: Full Time

Position Location (city): Greenville

Position Number: 929966

Organizational Unit Overview:

The School of Theatre and Dance is dedicated to providing undergraduate students with superior, professional training in theatre and dance. In our rigorous, conservatory-style training within a liberal arts setting students are taught and mentored by a diverse faculty of active professionals, who work to prepare them intellectually, artistically, and practically to be leaders in their chosen profession.
The ECU School of Theatre and Dance is guided by the following core principles:
Excellence
We strive to maintain a high standard of excellence in our classrooms, rehearsal halls, and stage productions; celebrating the individual strengths, talents, and dreams of our students while providing professional quality productions to Eastern North Carolina.
Professionalism
Through a nurturing yet demanding work environment, centered on adhering to performance industry standards, we seek to create graduates who are competitive in their chosen field and also fully prepared to transfer their skills to related fields.
Diversity
We believe our student body, faculty, staff, and the stories we tell must reflect the vast diversity of our community and our world. We give students the knowledge, skills, and values to succeed in a global, multicultural society.
Artistic Risk
The essence of making art is to take risks. We ask our students to challenge themselves and allow them the space to make both their successes and failures spectacular. We believe this is how new and innovative forms of creative expression are made.
Community
We recognize and value the impact artists and arts education can have on a community. We encourage our students to be artists, as well as fully engaged citizens, who understand the responsibility and eagerly accept the opportunity to make an impact in their field, our community, and the global community.

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To be a national model for student success, public service and regional transformation, East Carolina University uses innovative learning strategies and delivery methods to maximize access; prepares students with the knowledge, skills and values to succeed in a global, multicultural society; develops tomorrow's leaders to serve and inspire positive change; discovers new knowledge and innovations to support a thriving future for eastern North Carolina and beyond; transforms health care, promotes wellness, and reduces health disparities; and improves qualify of life through cultural enrichment, academics, the arts, and athletics. We accomplish our mission through education, research, creative activities, and service while being good stewards of the resources entrusted to us. East Carolina University delivers on the promise of opportunity. We open doors. We improve lives. We transform the present, and we discover the future. In these ways and more, we serve our community, our state, our nation and our world as together we reach toward our greatest potential. Tomorrow starts here.
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