Military Wives Choir – Musical Development and Wellbeing Manager

This role is part of the Choirs Support Team (CST), a small, dedicated team, that supports the network of individual Military Wives Choirs and the performances of Military Wives Choirs as a recording and performing artist. The CST manage the day-to-day running of the charity and the network, providing support and advice and seeking ‘once in a lifetime opportunities’ for our choir members, such as recording music or participating in the Kings’ Coronation.

This role is instrumental in determining our musical content, the quality of our core repertoire, our future musical direction and for ensuring that our musical approach delivers the well-being benefits of singing to our network.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Leading on the development and delivery of the music plan for Military Wives Choirs
• Assuring the quality of our choirs’ music-making, event activity, rehearsal and performance practice and relationships with Musical Directors and other key stakeholders
• Providing advice and support to choirs with the recruitment and management of their Musical Directors
• Ensuring that our Musical Directors, Assistant Musical Directors and accompanists are of consistent quality and understand and support the direction and ethos that we want for our choirs
• Overseeing the delivery of musical performances.
• Managing recording opportunities and new commissions end to end, in line with the approved proposal and budget
• Managing the Military Wives Choirs core repertoire ensuring that the repertoire is refreshed and maintained, effectively communicated to choirs, taking account of their preferences.
• Measuring the impact of our music-making on the wellbeing of the network and monitoring the number of choirs and size of the network
• Managing wellbeing issues and developing mental health first aid and mediation skills within choirs
• Managing the MWC Artistic Director and other key musical stakeholders
• Deputising for the Chief Executive when required
• Managing the Wellbeing and Development and Musical Direction Committees, including managing the agendas and preparing papers for these committees

As a small team, we expect all members to pick up other duties commensurate with their skills and capabilities and be flexible, adaptable, and willing to take on new challenges, attending performances as required.