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Hiring Strategy

Help Lead Guitar build a team of talented and passionate people to help their organization meet its goals with a comprehensive recruitment strategy.
Lead Guitar
Tucson, AZ, USA
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Posted November 23rd

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What we need
  • Recommendations on active and passive recruiting and proper channels to pursue candidates
  • Guidelines for hiring process, including order and number of interview rounds, reference checks, and general best practices for an inclusive interview
  • Effective interviewing techniques and clear, consistent standards for evaluating candidates
  • Tips for negotiating details such as compensation package and title
Additional details

Our strategic plan for the next five years includes hiring three full-time positions that are new to us: Sales Manager, Marketing Staff and Director of Development. Those hirings will be staggered over the next three years in that order.

What we have in place
  • Lead Guitar can share our new-hire paperwork, onboarding docs and employee contracts as well as QBO based employee, contractor and general financial data
How this will help
This project will save us $4,806 , allowing us to provide one full year of daily guitar classes to 60 students

We have an immediate funding opportunity to support these three hires (as well as other growth initiatives) and need to be able to illustrate costs related to those hirings, including adding employee benefits now.

Project plan

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Prep: Information Sharing
  • Volunteer Manager shares current or past job descriptions used in the Organization, as well as relevant materials such as existing internal policies and procedures
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Milestone 1: Audit of Existing Processes & Policies
  • Professional and Volunteer Manager meet to discuss current hiring processes and policies, including how candidates are sourced, interview questions and principles, hiring procedures, and overall hiring philosophy
  • Volunteer Manager identifies 1-2 key challenges or focus areas for hiring within their organization, which could include retention, equitable and transparent compensation, building a staff that reflects the communities served by the Organization, etc.
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Milestone 2: Analysis & Recommendations
  • Professional identifies existing strengths and suggests key areas of improvement, particularly around the identified key challenges or focus areas for hiring
  • Volunteer Manager provides feedback to Professional
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Milestone 3: Hiring Strategy Document
  • Professional drafts a new or revised hiring strategy for the Organization which outlines each aspect of recruitment and includes recommendations with actionable implementation
  • Professional incorporates feedback from Volunteer Manager into final draft
  • Optional: Professional creates a template job description or role visualization for the Organization
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Brad R
Brad R.

Executive Director

Our mission

Music education improves grades, graduation rates and critical thinking, but it's not available to five million American children. That's why Lead Guitar builds free guitar ensemble classes in partnership with neighborhood schools nationwide. Daily mentorship, classroom connections with global artists, and college campus experiences empower students to grow academically, socially, and emotionally.

Lead Guitar's vision is to engage every learner with an instrument that appeals across genres and generations, using music from a broad range of traditions, and differentiated materials like Adaptive and Spanish-language curricula. We focus resources on children with the least access to arts education by collaborating with schools where 80% or more of students are eligible for Free or Reduced-Price Lunch.

What we do

Lead Guitar establishes permanent guitar ensemble classes in public schools in underfunded neighborhoods and low access to the arts. Our Teaching Artists use our field-tested curriculum to co-teach K-12 students while also training certified teachers to teach guitar ensemble classes. This co-teaching method ensures both short-term quality and long-term sustainability. Using a relatable instrument, Lead Guitar provides equitable access to a high-quality instrumental music education to thousands of students in need.

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