Incorporated in 2020, Hear Your Song, Inc. (www.hearyoursong.org) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that empowers children and teens with serious illnesses and complex health needs to make their voices heard through collaborative songwriting. Hear Your Song provides power and choice—and a microphone—to young people with a wide range of diagnoses, both physical and mental health conditions, that so often deprive them of both power and choice in their day-to-day lives. At Hear Your Song, we believe that every young person deserves the chance to define themselves on their own terms.

In kid-driven, trauma-informed songwriting sessions, Hear Your Song volunteers work with youth participants to guide them through the process of writing their own songs about anything they want, from loving pasta to living with epilepsy. Youth choose what parts of the process they want to explore: youth songwriters write their own lyrics and many record their own vocals, compose their own melodies, and produce their own beats, tracks, and lyric videos. Others suggest ideas for musical style, instrumentation, and tempo, which we then bring to members of our volunteer community to create a professional recording and lyric video of the song that captures, as precisely as possible, what the child imagined.

Hear Your Song partners with pediatric hospitals, camps, schools, and other nonprofit programs that support kids experiencing serious illnesses and complex health needs. Hear Your Song’s volunteers collaborate with kids through campus-based chapters and at the organization’s national level. All programming is offered to youth entirely free of charge.

Hear Your Song seeks a part-time Music Engagement Coordinator to start mid-March 2026.

The Music Engagement Coordinator will collaborate closely with the Music Production Coordinator to oversee Hear Your Song’s music production pipeline, recruiting and supporting volunteers to produce, record, mix, and master youth songwriters’ songs. The Music Engagement Coordinator will also step into those creative roles on songs whenever appropriate. This position is all about communicating enthusiastically and responsively with volunteers: the Music Engagement Coordinator is typically new volunteers’ first introduction to the community. At Hear Your Song, we are all artists who believe in the powerful impact of music and songwriting and who are passionate about giving youth more opportunities to make their voices heard. We are seeking a Music Engagement Coordinator who recognizes, and resonates with, our organizational values of creativity, collaboration, empowerment, inclusion, flexibility, and joy.

START DATE: March 16th, 2026
PAY RATE: $28/hr
HOURS: 15-20 hours/week
SCHEDULE: During the school year, Hear Your Song currently follows a flexible Sunday—Thursday work week to best accommodate youth participants’ schedules. Very occasional weekday evening and Saturday programming are possible.
HYBRID POSITION: While the office at 48 Wall Street is accessible to staff 24/7 and songwriting sessions do frequently take place in person, there is significant remote flexibility in this role.
TRAVEL: Hear Your Song has several residential summer camp partnerships in upstate New York and Connecticut each summer in which we hope all part-time staff will participate. All travel, accommodations, and meal costs during those programs are covered.

VOLUNTEER RECRUITMENT AND ENGAGEMENT

• Support outreach to prospective volunteers and meet with new volunteers
• Match volunteers with song projects in order to ensure each song is produced to meet the youth songwriter’s vision
• Provide artistic and technical support throughout the song production process to volunteer musicians and producers, including to undergraduate volunteers at Hear Your Song’s campus-based chapters
• Design and support occasional community programming for volunteers

SONGWRITING SESSION FACILITATION & MUSIC CREATION

• Act as a songwriting session facilitator in in-person and virtual sessions
• Collaborate with youth songwriters and volunteers in the composition, production, and recording of songs-in-progress

ORGANIZATION-WIDE

• Maintain database of Hear Your Song’s active volunteers and in-progress songs, in partnership with programs team
• Participate in Hear Your Song’s amplification efforts, including streaming releases, concert events, and virtual community gatherings

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
•  Experience working with youth, especially in arts programming
• Excellent organizational and written/verbal communication skills
• Stellar email game
• Significant musical background, including performance and production experience in a variety of genres/styles
• Demonstrable commitment to creating and sustaining inclusive spaces
• Flexibility and responsiveness in a creative, collaborative environment
• Experience using G-Suite, especially Google Drive
• Sense of whimsy and wonder
• Ability to work a flexible schedule

PREFERRED BUT NOT REQUIRED

• Advanced guitar or piano skills
• Advanced music engineering skills
• Experience working with youth with health needs and/or disabilities

Please submit:

1. A résumé
2. A cover letter OR short video, in which you

• • Explain your relevant experience and share why you are interested in the position and the organization
  • Choose a song from Hear Your Song’s YouTube channel and share why that song particularly resonates with you

Please note: As an organization that celebrates the uniqueness of individual voices, Hear Your Song will not consider AI-generated cover letters. Please write the application yourself — we want to hear YOUR voice!

Please send materials with the subject line “Music Engagement Coordinator” to Executive Director and Co-Founder Dan Rubins at jobs@hearyoursong.org. Applications will be accepted through Friday, March 6th, and interviews will be offered on a rolling basis.