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Federal Arts Connection

Dear AFM Member,

This is a source for information relating to federal grant making, performance, education, and research opportunities for musicians interested in project funding and international travel as artistic representatives of the US. This list is not exhaustive. Occasionally, we will highlight different federal agencies with arts-related components. We suggest that you make direct contact with local federal agencies, government councils, and non-government organizations (NGOs) to help you identify other possibilities. This list is only a starting point and may reflect full-time and part-time opportunities for working musicians. To successfully engage these opportunities it may be necessary to contact the agency directly for requirement details. The AFM Office of Government Relations is happy to help you identify as many federal resources as possible.

JOBS USA—GLOBAL

Musical Instrument Repairer
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/476421400
Open and closing dates:  07/19/2017 to 12/31/2017
Salary: $23.81 to $27.77 per hour
Pay scale & grade: WG-10
Work schedule: Full-Time
Appointment type: Permanent
Location: Sembach, Germany
Relocation expenses may be paid

JOBS USA—UNITED STATES
Recreation Attendant Nf1* (Flex) Information, Tickets and Tours
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/475703900
Open and closing dates: 07/28/2017 to 11/30/2017
Salary: $9.25 to $9.50 per hour
Pay scale & grade: NF-01
Work schedule: Shift Work
Appointment type: Permanent
(one vacancy)
Location: Kaneohe, HI

The John F. Kennedy Center
for the Performing Arts
Manager, Teacher, and
School Programs

http://chp.tbe.taleo.net/chp01/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=THEKENNC&cws=1&rid=461
Location: Washington, DC
Department: Education Job Code 461

Also check the American Federation of Musicians website (http://members.afm.org/auditions) for US military job
notifications (Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, and Coast Guard).

Federal Arts Connection

Federal Arts Connection: June 2016

This month’s Federal Arts Connection focuses on agency websites with leads for employment opportunities in the federal government. Jobs USA is the federal government’s primary employment announcement site and hosts civilian opportunities in the Department of Defense, Department of the Army, Department of the Navy, the Endowments, the Veterans Administration, as well as federal performance facilities funded and managed by the US Department of the Interior. Agencies across the country are looking for music teachers and arts counselors for military base community family recreational programs and music therapists, to name just a few opportunities. Other jobs requiring a specialty in music also exist. Find out how to book yourself or your ensemble In the National Parks, for example. Military music programs not only need instrumentalists, vocalists, conductors, composers, and arrangers from every genre of music, but these units also have positions for audio-recording technicians and other workers whose skills are specific to keeping professional music units operational. All military band jobs require military enlistment and military service. More federal programs will be featured in the July International Musician. If you know of other performance or job opportunities through in federal facilities, drop me a line and we will feature it in this column. If you have photos of you or your ensemble performing at any of these federal facilities, send them to apollard@afm.org. We’ll get them posted.

GOVERNMENT ARTS EMPLOYMENT WEBSITES:

Jobs USA
https://www.usajobs.gov/
(Search music in US Location)

US Department of the Interior
https://www.doi.gov/
(Search music. There are many of performance opportunities at venues in national parks.)

Carter Barron Amphitheater—Washington, DC
https://www.nps.gov/rocr/planyourvisit/cbarronschedule.htm

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

www.KennedyCenter.org
http://chp.tbe.taleo.net/chp01/ats/careers/jobSearch.jsp?org=THEKENNC&cws=1&org=THEKENNC
(Administrative employment 0pportunities)

Wolf Trap Foundation/Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts
www.wolftrapfoundation.org
http://www.wolftrap.org/about/employment_opportunities.aspx
(
Administrative employment opportunities.)

National Endowment for the Arts
https://www.arts.gov/about/employment-opportunities-nea
(Administrative employment opportunities.)

MILITARY BAND/MUSIC CAREERS

United States Army Bands
http://www.goarmy.com/band/about-army-bands/auditions.html

West Point Academy Band
http://www.usma.edu/band/SitePages/Home.aspx-

United States Navy Bands
https://www.navy.com/careers/arts-media/musician-jobs.html#ft-key-responsibilities

United States Naval Academy Band
http://www.usna.edu/USNABand/

United States Air Force Bands
http://www.bands.af.mil/careers/

United States Air Force Academy Band
http://www.usafacademyband.af.mil/

United States Marine Band
www.marineband.marines.mil

United States Coast Guard Bands
http://www.uscg.mil/band/Careers/vacancies.asp

United States Coast Guard Academy Band
http://www.uscg.mil/band/

MILITARY TALENT SHOWS (For enlisted personnel only)

US Army “Soldier Show”
http://www.armymwr.com/soldier-show.aspx

US Air Force “Tops in Blue”
https://www.reachtheairforce.com/TopsInBlue.aspx

US Marines “Marines Got Talent” 29 Palms
https://metavideos.com/video/2407215/marines-got-talent