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Educational Support Manager

Universal Edutainment is seeking a full-time Educational Support Manager to support school music programs by helping educators identify the services, instructional materials, workshops, consultations, and custom arrangements that best meet their program needs.

This role serves as a direct support point for band directors, music teachers, fine arts leaders, and school programs. Similar to the way educational representatives help schools make informed decisions about instruments, equipment, and resources, the Educational Support Manager will help teachers understand Universal Edutainment’s offerings, assess program needs, recommend appropriate solutions, and guide each school through the process from initial inquiry to final delivery.

A major responsibility of this position includes overseeing the team of arrangers. The Educational Support Manager will coordinate arrangement requests, communicate project details, assign projects, track deadlines, manage revisions, and help ensure that final products are aligned with the needs of each director, ensemble, and program.

## Key Responsibilities

- Communicate with music educators to understand their program goals, ensemble needs, instrumentation, ability level, timeline, and budget.

- Recommend appropriate Universal Edutainment services, including custom arrangements, instructional materials, consultation services, professional development, and workshops.

- Guide teachers through service selection, project planning, purchasing steps, and final delivery.

- Serve as the main communication bridge between clients, arrangers, consultants, clinicians, and Universal Edutainment leadership.

- Oversee the arranger team by assigning projects, tracking progress, managing revisions, and monitoring deadlines.

- Review arrangement requests to ensure all necessary details are complete before work begins.

- Coordinate custom music arrangements, instructional resources, workshops, clinics, and professional development services.

- Maintain organized records of client needs, service requests, project timelines, deliverables, and follow-up communication.

- Support client satisfaction by ensuring that materials and services are practical, timely, and aligned with each teacher’s goals.

- Assist with outreach to school music programs, band directors, fine arts departments, and educational partners.

- Travel as needed to support schools, attend meetings, provide on-site consultation, assist with workshops, or represent Universal Edutainment at program-related events.

## Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Music Education.

- Experience as a band director, assistant band director, music teacher, instructional coach, music program coordinator, or arts administrator.

- Experience coordinating custom music arrangements, instructional resources, workshops, clinics, or professional development services.

- Strong understanding of school instrumental music programs, especially band programs.

- Experience working with music educators, school programs, students, or arts education organizations.

- Strong communication skills and the ability to speak professionally with teachers, school leaders, and educational partners.

- Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, and client needs at once.

- Ability to oversee creative teams, including arrangers, consultants, clinicians, or project-based contractors.

- Familiarity with marching band, concert band, instructional materials, music arranging, workshops, and school music program operations.

- Comfortable using email, shared documents, spreadsheets, project management tools, and digital communication platforms.

- Willingness and ability to travel as needed in accordance with the needs of the programs served.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Master’s degree in Education, Music Education, Educational Leadership, or a related field.

- Familiarity with school purchasing processes, educational service proposals, and program planning.

- Experience managing arrangers, clinicians, consultants, or creative contractors.

- Strong relationship-building skills with educators, administrators, and community partners.

## Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate understands both the artistic and practical realities of school music programs. This person knows that every band director is trying to solve real problems: limited time, uneven instrumentation, varying student ability levels, budget constraints, performance pressure, and the responsibility of creating meaningful experiences for students.

The Educational Support Manager should be able to listen first, recommend wisely, communicate clearly, and keep projects moving. This person should help teachers feel supported, informed, and confident—not pressured or sold to.

The right candidate will have the credibility to speak the language of music educators, the organization to manage multiple moving parts, and the leadership ability to help Universal Edutainment serve schools with excellence.

## Position Details

Position Title: Educational Support Manager  

Position Type: Full-Time  

Work Arrangement: Hybrid, consisting mostly of remote, at-home work  

Travel: Required as needed based on the needs of the programs served  

Location: Remote/home-based with program-related travel  

Reports To: Universal Edutainment Leadership  

Annual Salary: $72,800  

Benefits: Benefits package included

## Compensation and Benefits

The Educational Support Manager will receive a starting annual salary of $72,800, paid in accordance with Universal Edutainment’s regular payroll schedule and subject to applicable federal, state, and local withholdings.

This full-time position includes a benefits package for eligible full-time employees. Benefits include:

- Health benefits

- Dental benefits

- Vision benefits

- Paid time off

- Paid holidays

- Professional development opportunities

- Work-related travel reimbursement, where applicable and approved

- Other benefits made available to eligible full-time employees

Additional details regarding benefit eligibility, enrollment, employee contributions, and plan terms will be provided during onboarding.

## Application Requirements

Applicants should submit:

- Resume or professional bio

- Cover letter or statement of interest

- Summary of music education, leadership, or arts administration experience

- Description of experience working with school music programs

- Any experience managing projects, teams, arrangers, consultants, clinicians, or creative services

- Availability and ability to travel as needed

Application Process

Please forward all required information to careers@universaledutainment.com

# Seasonal Marching Band Arranger

Universal Edutainment is hiring multiple Seasonal Marching Band Arrangers to support the high demand for marching band music during the upcoming football season.

These seasonal contract roles will run from July through October and will focus on creating custom arrangements for halftime shows, stands music, pep rallies, parades, and other marching band performances.

Arrangers will be responsible for writing music that is exciting, playable, and tailored to each ensemble’s instrumentation, skill level, performance goals, and program identity. The ideal candidates understand how to create arrangements that sound strong, teach well, support the visual program, and help directors create meaningful performance experiences for their students.

## Key Responsibilities

- Create custom marching band arrangements for halftime shows, stands music, pep rallies, parades, and other performances.

- Arrange music for winds, brass, battery percussion, front ensemble, rhythm section, and auxiliary instruments as needed.

- Adapt arrangements to fit each ensemble’s instrumentation, ability level, style, and performance needs.

- Prepare clean, readable, performance-ready scores and individual parts.

- Collaborate with Universal Edutainment leadership, the Educational Support Manager, and program directors as needed.

- Make requested revisions in a timely and professional manner.

- Ensure arrangements are practical for marching performance, including appropriate ranges, balance, endurance, and technical demand.

- Provide MIDI mockups or audio demos when requested.

- Meet agreed-upon deadlines for drafts, revisions, and final delivery.

## Required Qualifications

- Experience writing or arranging music for marching band.

- Proficiency with notation software such as Sibelius, Finale, Dorico, MuseScore, or similar platforms.

- Strong understanding of marching band instrumentation and ensemble balance.

- Ability to write music that is playable, teachable, and appropriate for school-aged musicians.

- Strong communication skills and ability to receive feedback professionally.

- Ability to meet deadlines during the high-demand marching band season.

- Ability to work independently in a remote or project-based environment.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience as a band director, assistant band director, arranger, drill writer, percussion arranger, or marching band staff member.

- Experience writing for high school, college, HBCU-style, show-style, corps-style, or hybrid marching bands.

- Ability to arrange in multiple styles, including pop, gospel, R&B, funk, hip-hop, rock, jazz, classical, and cinematic music.

- Experience creating audio mockups using virtual instruments, MIDI, or DAW software.

- Familiarity with copyright, licensing, and permissions related to arranging copyrighted music.

- Ability to write drill-friendly musical transitions, impacts, vamps, tags, and dance breaks.

## Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is creative, reliable, musically skilled, and understands the real-world needs of school band programs. This person knows that marching band music must energize crowds, support students, serve the director’s vision, and remain practical enough to teach within a limited rehearsal schedule.

The right arranger can write with power without overwriting, simplify without weakening the music, and create arrangements that help bands sound confident, prepared, and exciting.

## Position Details

Position Title: Seasonal Marching Band Arranger  

Position Type: Seasonal / Contract  

Number of Openings: Multiple  

Season: July–October  

Work Arrangement: Remote or project-based  

Compensation: Based on project scope, experience, instrumentation, number of charts, revisions, and delivery timeline  

Reports To: Educational Support Manager / Universal Edutainment Leadership

## Application Requirements

Applicants should submit:

- Resume or brief professional bio

- 2–3 arranging samples

- Audio mockups or live performance recordings, if available

- List of notation software used

- Description of marching band, arranging, or music education experience

- Availability from July through October

Application Process

Please forward all required information to careers@universaledutainment.com