Dads Rock Academy

Thursday, 24 August 2017

Vacancy - Dads Rock Academy Manager

Organisation: Dads Rock Academy Community Interest Company
Salary: circa £1462, £8.5 per hour, £34 per week
Salary info: 4 hours per week
Job type: Dads Rock Academy Manager
Status: Sessional
Closing date: 31/08/2017
Location: Edinburgh
Website: http://www.dadsrockacademy.org.uk/

Role:

Dads Rock Academy is recruiting a sessional worker to manage our weekly tuition sessions, overseeing the smooth delivery of each instrument group, to ensure all tutors/volunteers and students attend. To motivate both tutors/volunteers and students to ensure they are getting the best from the tuition. To also provide administrative support, general assistance and social media input as needed for Dads Rock Academy’s activities.

The role involves weekday evening work, as well as weekends with a requirement to be flexible in line with the business needs, there will be an expectation of working until 9pm during the week.

Organisation profile:

Dads Rock Academy is Edinburgh’s only rock tuition social enterprise, delivering weekly tuition to kids aged 7-16 and their mums/dads/grandparents.

Application notes:

Please email Thomas Lynch at: Info@dadsrockacademy.org.uk with your CV and covering letter outlining why you are the best person for the job, and how you meet the criteria outlined in the job description, below.

Closing date: 31 August 2017 at 5pm.

Job Description:

Post – Dads Rock Academy Manager

Hours of work - 4 hours per week, flexible including evenings and weekends

Management - Responsible to the Board of Directors.

Rate of Pay - £1462, approx. £8.5 per hour

Location – Edinburgh

Purpose of Job:

To manage weekly tuition sessions, overseeing the smooth delivery of each instrument group. Ensure all tutors/volunteers and students attend. To motivate tutors/volunteers and students to ensure they are getting the best from the tuition. To also provide administrative support, general assistance and social media input as needed for Dads Rock Academy’s activities.

The role involves weekday evening work, and weekend work with a requirement to be flexible in line with the business needs, there will be an expectation of working until 9pm during the week.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

To manage tuition sessions, working with other tutors to deliver the service. To work within the parameters of Dads Rock Academy agreed polices. Promoting the ethos and objectives of the organisation and the service it runs.

Engage on a 1:1 and group basis with families, children and young people; preparing, facilitating and evaluating activities; dealing with queries, and sign posting on. To share photos and content on our social media platforms.

Build strong, positive relationships with local stakeholders, agencies and individuals.

To provide administrative support for the running of the service, i.e. tracking attendance.

Generate ideas for new events or fundraising actions, and work with the board of directors to deliver these.

To provide ad-hoc general assistance as needed for Dads Rock Academy.

PERSON SPECIFICATION: Dads Rock Academy Manager

CRITERIA	ESSENTIAL	DESIRABLE
QUALIFICATIONS	- Relevant professional qualification e.g. Music Studies, Community Education, Youth Work, or equivalent	- Any training/qualifications relevant to working with Children and young people
EXPERIENCE	- Worked directly with children and young people - Collaborated with other agencies and worked in a range of settings	- Experience in providing high quality training material and resources
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS	- One-to-one work - Excellent verbal and written communication skills - Ability to innovate and use a range of approaches	- Delivery of training - Presentation skills - I.T. - An understanding of local and national strategies
PERSONAL QUALITIES	- Enthusiastic and highly motivated - Effective communicator with people of all ages and backgrounds - Committed and open to challenge - Flexible, dynamic, innovative and resourceful - Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
OTHER	- Available to work irregular hours, e.g. evenings, weekends.	- A clean driving license

Wednesday, 3 August 2016

2016-17 Structure

Dads Rock Academy – Year 4

Each year we aim to enhance your experience of Dads Rock Academy (DRA). We’ve spent time looking at what has worked over the last three years and want needs change. See below for details for this years lessons.

DRA will run on a Tuesday night, 6-8pm.
The first class will be on Tues 6^th of Sept and run until 13^th of June 2017.
There will be five distinct learning blocks throughout the year.
Our existing lead tutors are returning.
Weekly cost is £12* per student, to be paid monthly.

*For the last three years we've had additional funding to help reduce the fees, we no longer have access to this, and without this increase DRA cannot continue.

Instrument choices are also changing, we need every new and returning DRA student to click on the link below and chose your top three instruments that you wish to study.

We'll aim to fit everyone to their first choice, but this is about trying to get a more even spread of students against instruments:

Survey

Every family that wants to be part of DRA this year needs to click on the above survey by the 14^th of August. If you don’t respond by the 14^th, we’ll assume you don’t want to be a student. If there is more than one student per family, you'll need to complete multiple surveys.

If you’d like to meet to discuss any of this, we’re holding a meeting for families, you'll be asked in the above survey if you'd like to come to the meeting.

Thank You!

Vacancy - Lead Vocal Tutor role

Dads Rock Academy 2016/17 Vacancy

Role Title - Lead Vocal Tutor

Hours of work - 2 hours per week. Tuesdays (6-8pm) with flexibility to include occasional weekends.

Responsible to - Dads Rock Academy Directors.
Responsible for - Planning and implementing small groups lessons.
Salary - £35 per night
Contract Basis - Sept 2016 to June 2017
Location - Edinburgh College Music Box

We are looking for a self-employed vocal tutor. You will plan and implement group lessons and teach with patience and creativity. The role requires regular liaison and cooperation with the rest of the lead tutors in achievement of learning outcomes and target dates. The ideal candidate will be confident and have a passion for music and teaching.

Duties and responsibilities

Liaise and negotiate lesson content with other instrument leaders.
Planning individual lessons and overall schemes of work for pupils.
Teach basic fundamentals of music and teach pupils to play music and refine technique. Acquiring appropriate teaching materials/resources.
Work with a wide range of participants to identify their needs and then adapting projects to meet these needs.
Responsible for direction of voluntary tutors with regards to operational duties within instrument groups

Qualifications and Experience

The ideal candidates will hold music qualifications of HND level or above. It is desirable that applicants have at least one year’s previous experience providing music and instrumental tuition. As our students are aged 7 years and over applicants will be required to adhere to child protection legislation and are expected to join the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme.

Application process

Send your CV and covering letter to: Info@dadsrockacademy.org.uk

The closing date for applications is the 30^th of August, interviews will be held that week.

For more information on what we do: www.dadsrockacademy.org.uk

Tuesday, 29 September 2015

Volunteer Tutors Needed!

We've spaces for additional volunteer tutors to join the team at this years Dads Rock Academy.

This is the third year of Dads Rock Academy, we offer small group tuition from Oct - June, on Tuesdays and Thursday nights. Our students are aged 8 years old to 60+, so you'll get experience of teaching a wide range of ages and skill levels.

Our classes run from 6-8pm each week.

We have spaces for the following instruments:

Bass, Drums, Guitar, Keyboard and Vocal

You can volunteer for one night a week or two, and will work alongside our existing tutors.

We're based at The Music Box, Sighthill Campus of Edinburgh College.

If you'd like to help families to learn how to rock out, then get in touch asap!

Contact Thomas Lynch on 07807 498 709 or email: Info@dadsrockacademy.org.uk

Our website is here: Dads Rock Academy

Wednesday, 9 September 2015

Dads Rock Academy 2015/16 Vacancies

Role Title - Lead Tutor
Hours of work - 8 hours per week. Tuesdays and Thursdays (6-8pm) with flexibility to include occasional weekends.

Responsible to - Dads Rock Academy Facilitators.
Responsible for - Planning and implementing small groups lessons.
Salary - £7.50 per hour
Contract Basis - Oct 2015 to June 2016
Location - Edinburgh College Music Box

We are looking for three self-employed seasonal tutors for bass, keyboard and vocals to support facilitators in the managing of our five instrument groups. You will plan and implement group lessons and teach with patience and creativity. The role requires regular liaison and cooperation with facilitators in achievement of learning outcomes and target dates. The ideal candidate will be confident and have a passion for music and teaching.

Duties and responsibilities

Liaise and negotiate lesson content with facilitators and instrument leaders.
Planning individual lessons and overall schemes of work for pupils.
Teach basic fundamentals of music and teach pupils to play music and refine technique. Acquiring appropriate teaching materials/resources.
Work with a wide range of participants to identify their needs and then adapting projects to meet these needs.
Responsible for direction of voluntary tutors with regards to operational duties within instrument groups

Qualifications and Experience

Application process

Send your CV and covering letter to: Info@dadsrockacademy.org.uk

The closing date for applications is the 27^th of September, interviews will be held the following week.

For more information on what we do: www.dadsrockacademy.org.uk

Friday, 19 December 2014

Frightened Rabbit at Dads Rock

Grant Hutchison from Frightened Rabbit first came along to see Dads Rock Academy in action last year. We got in touch with him after reading that they supported the campaign by the newspaper 'Scotland on Sunday' to help ensure music lessons at school were free.

It's no surprise that we also support this cause, music is fundamental to how we communicate and come together in our communities to have shared experiences. We believe it's undervalued in the UK and provides many valuable life skills to our young people.

We also believe in the relevance and power of young people coming together with their mums, dads, grandparents to learn an instrument together, to push and challenge each other to learn new skills.

We want to keep music as accessible to as many people as possible, it's one reason why we expanded from 26 students last year to over 60 this year.

Earlier on this year we did a shout out to look for more drum tutors for our students, to give more time in smaller groups, and Grant got in touch again.

For the past few weeks Grant has been working with one of our young drummers, giving invaluable 1:1 tuition...check out the pictures..