Visiting Assistant Professor in Voice

Classification Title:

VIS AST PROF

Classification Minimum Requirements

Candidates shall have received the academic degree appropriate to the assignment of duties, or equivalent experiences or accomplishments in the field may be substituted.

Job Description:

Visiting Assistant Professor in Voice

Position: Full-time, 9 month, non-tenure accruing faculty position

Date of Expected Hire: August 16, 2026

Salary: $60,000 with a comprehensive and highly competitive leave and benefits package

The University of Florida School of Music in the College of the Arts invites applications for a full-time, 9-month Visiting Assistant Professor of Voice. We seek an accomplished singer and pedagogue who will contribute to the continued success and growth of our BM, BA, MM, and DMA programs in voice. The successful candidate will teach a studio of applied voice students, Quest 1, and Vocal Pedagogy, bringing a dynamic personality and enthusiasm for teaching to our existing community of outstanding scholars and musicians.

The University of Florida College of the Arts intends to be a transformative community, responding to and generating paradigmatic shifts in the arts and beyond. As artists and scholars, we embrace the complexity of our evolving human experience and seek to empower our students and faculty to shape that experience fearlessly through critical study, creative practice, and provocation. We seek a colleague who identifies as a change-maker. We seek a colleague who will position emerging artists and researchers as catalysts for justice on local and global levels.

The University of Florida is an equal opportunity institution. This position is covered by the United Faculty of Florida Contract. You can view this employment union contract here https://admin.hr.ufl.edu/compliance/employee-relations-and-ethics/union-negotiations/united-faculty-of-florida-contract/.

Responsibilities:

• Teach an applied voice studio of approximately 10 undergraduate voice students 
• Teach Vocal Pedagogy
• Teach Quest 1* or other Voice Area courses
• Recruit and teach undergraduate and graduate students in applied studio voice. 
• Maintain an active profile in performance, research, and/or other creative activities
• Engage deeply in our learning community, finding innovative ways to connect the arts to 
• critical discourses in other disciplines. 
• Participate in shared governance through service to the School, College and University

* “UF Quest is a signature and transformational undergraduate core education program designed to engage students in interdisciplinary inquiry, civic responsibility, critical thinking, and real-world engagement. It is grounded in the Gallup-Purdue “Big Six” college experiences that correlate to lifelong well-being and career success (faculty mentorship, long-term projects, applied learning, extracurricular connection, deep engagement, and experiential education). Quest is transforming the core curriculum, elevating UF’s national leadership in undergraduate education and serves as a model for how core education can prepare students to meet the grand challenges of our time.” https://quest.ufl.edu

SCHOOL OF MUSIC: Organized within the College of the Arts, the School of Music plays an important role in the academic and cultural life of the University, the College’s Creative Campus initiative and the community. The School has 40 full-time and nine adjunct faculty, serving some 200 graduate and 200 undergraduate music majors. Degree programs include B.S., B.A., B.M., M.M., D.M.A., and the Ph.D. in music education, composition, ethnomusicology, and historical musicology. Program emphases include performance, music education, theory, composition, music history and literature, ethnomusicology, conducting, and sacred music. The School of Music is also home to the UF Bands program, which includes “The Pride of the Sunshine” Gator Marching Band. School of Music facilities include the School of Music Building and Steinbrenner Band Hall, among others.  The University of Florida is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges and is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music. For more information, visit www.arts.ufl.edu/music.

THE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: The College of the Arts is an engine of transformation that generates paradigmatic shifts in the arts and beyond, while nurturing adaptability, innovation, and excellence. We fo