Job Title: News & Public Affairs Director
Department: News Department
Reports To: Station Manager
FLSA Status: Exempt
Hours: FULL TIME, may include early mornings, evenings, weekends, or flexible hours
Positions Supervised: Associate News Producer, Climate & Environment Reporter, volunteer news and public affairs producers, news department interns
Location: Based in Boulder, CO
Travel: Limited Regional, Frequent Local
Position Summary
The KGNU News & Public Affairs Director is a dynamic, energetic, creative, team-oriented, and talented individual responsible for leading KGNU’s award-winning News Department. The News Director is responsible for coordinating and guiding the editorial agenda, overall direction, and day-to-day operations of the KGNU News Department. The News Director must excel in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented, collaborative environment.
The ideal candidate is a superb journalist and experienced manager with excellent organizational skills and high journalistic standards who brings an inspiring, social, and racial equity-centered editorial vision that will address local news and information gaps with the skills to implement a strategy to achieve it. Our newsroom prioritizes community relevance and engagement.
The News Director leads KGNU’s daily local news coverage across all platforms: radio, podcast, web, social media, and multimedia. The News Director will drive the daily reporting with a combination of energy and calm, creativity and consistency. The News Director will ensure that news coverage and public affairs programming reflect the highest standards of journalistic ethics, audio production, and public service to the KGNU audience and the communities we serve.
The News Director manages our small but mighty team of staff reporters and producers; while providing journalistic guidance, coordination, training, and management of our volunteer reporters, producers, hosts, and interns.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities Include (but may not be limited to):
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Related Experience: On-air public broadcasting, news collection, reporting, general management (community or public media)
Hours, Compensation, and Benefits (Full Time)
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE APPLYING:
Please submit a cover letter (2 pages max) , a current up-to-date résumé , links to three (3) audio samples of related past on-air hosting work , links to two (2) written samples , and contact information for three professional references (relevant to this job opening).
In your cover letter please address how the skills, experience, and qualifications that you possess: make you qualified for the demands of this leadership position; how you would contribute to creating a culturally inclusive environment in the role for which you are applying; your strategic approach to ensure KGNU fills the gaps of the local news and informational needs of the growing and diverse communities we serve; and your vision for taking the KGNU News Department into a new era.
All Submissions should be made by email ONLY to job@kgnu.org and directed to the KGNU News & Public Affairs Director Search Committee. No phone calls, please.
Application Deadline:
Applications submitted by February 5, 2024, will be given priority for review.
Position Open Until Filled.
The need is immediate.
Applications will be reviewed as they arrive.
Interviews will be scheduled accordingly.
An automatic confirmation will be sent to each individual who applies. ONLY APPLICANTS INVITED TO INTERVIEW FOR THE POSITION WILL BE CONTACTED BY EMAIL OR PHONE after review of their application.
KGNU is committed to creating and supporting a culturally inclusive environment through diversity, equity, and inclusivity. KGNU is committed to providing an Equal Employment Opportunity and environment that is free from bullying, discrimination, and/or harassment based on race, age, creed, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or pregnancy, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. We strongly encourage applications from people of all genders, Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and people with disabilities.
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