Vacancies & Appointments
Head of Junior RIAM
The Head of Junior RIAM will carry overall responsibility for the current student body of 1,500 school age students who attend music lessons at RIAM across weekday afternoons and on Saturdays. RIAM are recruiting the above post to lead the Junior RIAM and provide artistic, educational, and administrative leadership that enhances the RIAM’s reputation nationally and internationally.
Junior RIAM consists of three separate areas: Early Years Training, Junior RIAM and the Young Artist Programme. Early Years Training (age 0-10) involves students who are beginners and in the early years of their music studies. The focus in this category is on developing a solid foundation of musical skills, an appreciation for music and learning about resilience through music through small group tuition. Following this training at the earliest level, students advance to Junior RIAM (age 11-18). This division forms the bulk of RIAM’s onsite student body, focusing on one-to-one teaching supported by music theory, chamber music performing groups and performances.
From the ranks of enthusiastic young participants engaged in RIAM’s formal and informal programmes of learning and assessment come the emerging professional talent of the future, captured in a Young Artist Programme of approximately 25 members. The focus is on skills development, developing musicianship and awareness of style; and in forming a bedrock of personal resilience to support ambition.
Type of Contract: Full time permanent (CID)
Reporting to: Director of RIAM
Salary: Commencing Point 1 of the Administrative Officer Salary Grade VII (see appendix 1)
Annual leave: 29 days
Closing date for applications: Friday 10th May
Interviews to take place: Monday 20th May
Working week: 35 hour net
Pension: Employer PRSA with 5% of gross salary minimum employee contribution and 10% of gross salary employer contribution
Assistant Lecturer or Lecturer of Piano
The RIAM, as a national conservatoire for music in Ireland, is embarking on one of the most transformational phases in its 170-year history. We are in the midst of the major re- development of our premises on Westland Row, a fully funded project which is set to complete in 2022. We are poised to create Ireland’s leading centre for music education, training, and performance. We aim to nurture excellence, build audiences, advocate for increased access to music participation, and amplify the impact of our work by forging powerful links between young people, emerging, and established professional artists, diverse audiences, and society at large.
RIAM’s strategy aims to bring scholarship and practice closer together across all RIAM levels, to train performers who can draw on research to develop their unique artistic voice.
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:
- significant experience teaching/coaching at pre-college, undergraduate and postgraduate level
- national/international profile as a performer and/or recording artist
- track record of incorporating reflective practices into their teaching/coaching
- undertaken practice-based research as part of their performance profile
As RIAM is an institution that has students from all over Ireland, the position will involve Saturday teaching and teaching after 3pm on weekdays for junior students, starting September 2024. As such, all applicants must confirm this availability prior to interview.
CLOSING DATES AND INTERVIEW INFORMATION
At the interview, the candidate will be required to teach or coach a demonstration lesson of a young junior and an advanced junior for 15 minutes each
This will be followed by a conversation (approximately a further 15 minutes) with the interview panel.
The closing date for applications is 16th May at 4.00pm. Interviews will take place on the 23rd and 24th May in RIAM. CV should be emailed to ruthmeehan@riam.ie