• Job Description

  Req#: 927
  Position Type:
  High School Teaching
  
  
  Date Posted:
  1/31/2026
  
  
  Location:
  Loyola Academy
  
  
  Must have expert level skills in a variety of instruments
  Must have effective and positive communication and collaboration skills
  Experience in a wide variety of band ensembles, including concert, jazz and marching band
  Bachelor's Degree required, Masters preferred
  Teaches three to five classes (0.6 – 1.0 FTE).
  Guides rehearsals, sets the tempo, controls dynamics, and uses gestures to communicate musical, emotional, and structural cues, ensuring precise entrances and cohesion among musicians.
  Plans and uses appropriate instructional and learning strategies, activities, materials, materials, and equipment that reflect understanding of the learning styles and needs of students assigned.
  Creates an environment conducive to learning and appropriate for the physical, social, and emotional development of students.
  Evaluates student performance, regularly updating the gradebook.
  Effectively provides instruction to the assigned students.
  Effectively communicates with parents and students as appropriate.
  Initiates and implements participation of the band and band members in out-of-school band experiences appropriate to the curriculum and student interests.
  Manages the storage and use of school owned equipment and materials; makes minor adjustments and requests repairs to instruments as required.
  Develops and implements plans for instrumental music programs and shows written evidence of preparation as required.
  Cooperates with school administration in providing music programs for sporting events, school productions, mass, graduation ceremonies as appropriate; that enhance the students' performing experience.
  Supervises and guides the student Band Board, promoting leadership roles for students.
  Performs other tasks and assumes such other responsibilities assigned by the Principal's Office and Department Chair.
  Establishes positive and collaborative relationships with all stakeholders and has excellent communication skills.
  In addition to teaching band, extracurricular responsibilities include directing the Loyola Academy Marching Band and Pep Band.
  The Band teacher has the option of conducting the pit orchestra for school musical productions. As the musical and technical leader of an ensemble, they interpret the score to create a unified performance .
  25-26 Salary Scale
  Loyola Academy is a Jesuit, Catholic college preparatory school committed to forming women and men for others in service to the Church and the world. Our graduates are religious, intellectually competent, physically fit, loving, open to growth, and committed to doing justice. We seek a committed, faith-filled, academically qualified leader who is able to embody and advance the mission of the school as an apostolic work of the Society of Jesus. Loyola Academy seeks a full-time, dynamic and creative Band Director for the 2026-2027 academic year.
  
  The ideal candidate for this position will possess the following qualifications:
  • Must have expert level skills in a variety of instruments
  • Must have effective and positive communication and collaboration skills
  • Experience in a wide variety of band ensembles, including concert, jazz and marching band
  • Bachelor's Degree required, Masters preferred
  Responsibilities
  • Teaches three to five classes (0.6 – 1.0 FTE).
  • Guides rehearsals, sets the tempo, controls dynamics, and uses gestures to communicate musical, emotional, and structural cues, ensuring precise entrances and cohesion among musicians.
  • Plans and uses appropriate instructional and learning strategies, activities, materials, materials, and equipment that reflect understanding of the learning styles and needs of students assigned.
  • Creates an environment conducive to learning and appropriate for the physical, social, and emotional development of students.
  • Evaluates student performance, regularly updating the gradebook.
  • Effectively provides instruction to the assigned students.
  • Effectively communicates with parents and students as appropriate.
  • Initiates and implements participation of the band and band members in out-of-school band experiences appropriate to the curriculum and student interests.
  • Manages the storage and use of school owned equipment and materials; makes minor adjustments and requests repairs to instruments as required.
  • Develops and implements plans for instrumental music programs and shows written evidence of preparation as required.
  • Cooperates with school administration in providing music programs for sporting events, school productions, mass, graduation ceremonies as appropriate; that enhance the students' performing experience.
  • Supervises and guides the student Band Board, promoting leadership roles for students.
  • Performs other tasks and assumes such other responsibilities assigned by the Principal's Office and Department Chair.
  • Establishes positive and collaborative relationships with all stakeholders and has excellent communication skills.
  • In addition to teaching band, extracurricular responsibilities include directing the Loyola Academy Marching Band and Pep Band.
  • The Band teacher has the option of conducting the pit orchestra for school musical productions. As the musical and technical leader of an ensemble, they interpret the score to create a unified performance .
  
  Loyola Academy offers its student body of 2000 a rigorous and relevant college preparatory curriculum, a highly developed visual arts and music program, a diversity of athletic and extracurricular activities, and a strong retreat and service learning program. As a Jesuit school, Loyola Academy strives to form young women and men for meaningful lives of leadership and service in imitation of Jesus Christ. It is presumed that all candidates for this position possess a strong desire to actively contribute to the furthering of Loyola Academy's mission.
  Interested applicants should apply online at www.goramblers.org/Employment . Compensation and benefits are competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience - see attached salary scale.
  More information about the school is available at www.goramblers.org .
  
  
  
  
  

• About the company

  Loyola Academy is a private, Catholic, co-educational college preparatory high school run by the USA Midwest Province of the Society of Jesus in Wilmette, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago, and in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago.

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