The Branch Director is responsible for the educational, artistic, and administrative management of the Kardon-Northeast Branch and works as a member of the senior management in the overall administration of Settlement Music School. The person will work closely with all Branch Directors and the Director of Education to build upon successful program development models to encourage student recruitment from the community. The Branch also includes the Kardon Center for Arts Therapy, one of the tri-state area’s largest arts therapy programs, and the Branch Director works collaboratively with the Kardon Center’s Manager. The Kardon-Northeast Branch Director is integral to building new partnerships and developing existing ones in the local community, which has been an area of tremendous growth for the School in the past several years.
Founded in 1908 Settlement Music School, a non-profit organization, is one of the largest community schools of the arts in the United States serving children and adults of all ages at five branches in Pennsylvania located in South, West and Northeast Philadelphia, Germantown, Willow Grove, Pennsylvania and our partnership branch located in Camden, New Jersey. Settlement provides over $2.6 million dollars each year in financial aid and scholarships to fully 60% of its students. Settlement’s reach is broad, and it continues the principles of its Founders, that there be no barriers to participating in music and arts education.
