Pembroke Hill School is hiring: Faculty, Instrumental Music in Shawnee

Instrumental Music/Band Instructor - 5th-12th grades (full time)
Begins August 2025

Job Summary: Pembroke Hill School is seeking a full-time faculty member to direct and teach instrumental music to 5-12th grades. This position will begin in August of 2025 for the 2025-26 school year.

Band instruction is currently divided between age groups consisting of four bands; 5th grade, 6th grade, 7th and 8th grade, and high school (9th-12th grades). A successful candidate will be a creative mind who demonstrates new ideas to grow a band program from traditional to extraordinary. This role encompasses many supportive music roles, including but not limited to, pep bands, concerts, organizing third-party orchestras for school events and school musicals, managing private instruction opportunities for students, and other performance opportunities.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Minimum bachelor’s degree, preferably in a music-related field.
• 3+ years of teaching experience.
• Candidates should be personable, creative, flexible, and possess the knowledge to conduct all instruments in the band.
• Have a genuine desire to work with multiple age groups from introductory band students to seniors in high school.
• Must be available for some classes, rehearsals, and events to be held outside the normal hours of the school day.
• Middle-level proficiency and a strong depth of knowledge in instruments with a broad understanding of music theory.

Schedule: Teaching positions are based on the school year (August through May). During the school year, there are three school vacations – one week at Thanksgiving, two weeks in December, and two weeks in March – plus holidays, personal and sick days. For this position, the candidate must be available for some classes, rehearsals, and events to be held outside the normal hours of the school day.

Compensation: Compensation will be based on a competitive norm influenced by area and peer schools, using years of teaching experience and the highest completed degree. Transcripts and verification of employment will be required. Benefits include health, dental, retirement match (up to 8%), professional development opportunities, PHS tuition remission, free lunch, and more!

About Pembroke Hill School: Pembroke Hill School is an independent school in Kansas City, Missouri. Pembroke Hill seeks to fulfill our mission by recognizing that diversity, belonging, equity, and inclusion are integral elements of school and community life. Our mission-inspired goal is together, cultivating the best in each, for the benefit of all. Cultivating each to be a global thinker and valuable member of the PHS community poised to acquire the academic and life skills that make a significant difference for all.

We have newer and updated facilities, excellent classroom resources, small class sizes, and a competitive and comprehensive compensation and benefits package. If you would like to join a highly qualified team who enjoys teaching talented and dedicated students, please complete the online application to be considered.

Physical Demands for Faculty positions:

The physical demands described here represent those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Ability to sit and stand for extended periods. For elementary and lower school, sit on the floor for extended periods of time.
• Ability to enter data into a computer, to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids.
• Ability to hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors, and on the telephone.
• Ability to speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal classrooms, outdoors, and on the telephone.
• Physical ability to lift, carry and/or hold up to 25 pounds to shoulder height and 50 pounds to waist height.
• Ability to occasionally balance, reach, bend, squat, stoop, or kneel.
• Ability to climb stairs, walk, and occasionally run, if required.