Sound Studio Instructor

Description

The Sound Studio Instructor will be in charge of teaching, managing and developing the Odegaard Sound Studio. Sound Studio workshops are focused on UW Student creation of digital audio in the Odegaard Sound Studio.  Approximately two-hour long workshops previously offered in the Sound Studio include: Ableton, ProTools, Audacity, Garageband, and Logic. The successful candidate for this position would be expected to teach, update, and add to these workshop offerings based on the UW community’s needs, as well as giving occasional one-on-one consultations to students who need them, answering client emails about technologies and software that falls in the Sound Studio area, and helping us keep the Sound Studio functional and up to date.

The position offers competitive pay, a highly flexible schedule (workshops are scheduled at the instructors’ discretion), a great team of co-instructors, and the opportunity to get experience teaching a wide variety of people. In addition, recent STF-funded updates to the Sound Studio have improved security, functionality, and options within the space. We believe this is one of the greatest benefits of the position, and would strongly encourage people who are interested in teaching, musicianship, studio management, or in the digital humanities or digital scholarship to apply.

We want to fill this position with the best possible candidate and are happy  to interview candidates by Skype or Google Hangout if they are not able to come to campus. Training is available on all essential position Duties, and will be provided by the outgoing instructor.

Workshop Schedule and more Information here: http://www.washington.edu/itconnect/learn/workshops/

Pay: $12.25 per hour, with rapid opportunities to increase.

Duties include:

  • Scheduling 15-20 workshops for each academic quarter, by the beginning of that quarter
  • Teaching a range of 4-25 students in each workshop, potentially more on rare special occasions
  • Responding to client’s questions about workshops before and follow up questions after workshops
  • Successfully answering questions during workshops, and accommodating to the learning speeds of different students
  • Using our online system to respond to client inquiries about technologies that fall into the “Sound Studio” category
  • Schedule and hold half-hour long, one-on-one consultations with clients who need help on specific projects, and who are unable to resolve them in a workshop (these one-on-ones can be flexibly scheduled, and instructors are not required to make time for them immediately if they are busy.)
  • Paying attention to accessibility when teaching best practices (e.g. how to create and distribute captions.)
  • Attending other instructors’ workshops and providing feedback about them, and receiving and integrating feedback from other instructors.
  • Consult and help manage updates to the Sound Studio space as need.
  • Helping the Learning Technologies team with other Sound Studio needs as assigned.

Qualifications:

  • A firm foundation in routing digital audio.
  • A basic understanding of both digital and analog mixing techniques.
  • Basic Digital Audio troubleshooting knowledge, in hardware and software.
  • An ability to teach and communicate these skills to others.
  • Curiosity and self motivation when learning about technology: the ability to teach yourself about new/unfamiliar technologies and then organize and distribute that information effectively in your workshops
  • Good people skills and customer service ability when dealing with students and client questions.

An ideal candidate would have:

  • Teaching/tutoring experience, adaptability to the level you see your students learning at, as well as to different learning styles (especially during one-on-one consultations)
  • General intellectual engagement and curiosity, both in their own lives and in areas pertaining to this instructor job (i.e. interest in education, technology)
  • Experience with:
    • Ableton Live
    • Avid Protools
    • Propellerhead Reason
    • Apple Logic Pro
    • Audacity
  • Interest and the ability to update workshops as technologies change, and staying alert to specific digital audio needs on campus that might be served by offering workshops on new topics. 

In addition to competitive pay, an on-campus job, and great flexibility in hours, this position offers opportunities to develop technological expertise, digital audio, and skill in teaching. We work to mentor and support interested students as they develop their careers.

How to Apply:

If you are interested, please upload your resume and a brief letter explaining your interests and how your background qualifies you for an instructor position. Please submit via this Catalyst Dropbox.

For priority consideration, please submit by February 21.

A satisfactory outcome from a criminal background verification will be required prior to hire.

If listed on the Student Jobs page, then we are currently accepting applications for this position.