The successful candidate must have a track record of achievement, as a leader with a complex organization or business, ideally one that is related to media, content development, and/or public engagement. S/he must be able to develop and implement a vision for how KUNC and The Colorado Sound can reach more people, adapt its delivery platform strategy, and deepen its impact on the communities it serves while ensuring a viable long term financial structure.

The candidate must possess the skills necessary to be a strong and credible advocate for the station, and a superb communicator with both large and small groups. S/he must be able to navigate effectively on a local, state, and national stage, and bring the credibility to work with media, business, government, and philanthropy. The individual must demonstrate political acumen without being overtly ‘political.’  Experience in developing and implementing successful fundraising strategies is also important.

The following skills and competencies are noted:

Mission Alignment and Media Knowledge

• Embraces CRNC’s mission to “strengthen the community by cultivating the mind and spirit – informing, inspiring and entertaining.”
• Brings knowledge and credibility in public radio and the media industry.
• Possesses knowledge and ability to successfully lead CRNC in its continuing efforts to implement the digital transformation that is changing public radio.
• Maintain credibility with journalists within the region and beyond.
• Passionate about engaging and representing the diverse communities of the region as well as connecting to the key issues of contemporary society.
• Lives the values and mission of CRNC and shares the organization’s unending commitment to integrity, diversity, curiosity, accuracy, excellence, and impact.

Strategic Leadership

• Proven ability to analyze the mission and business drivers of an organization, develop a vision for the future, and lead the team to develop a strategy responsive to a fast-changing, external environment.
• Demonstrated track record of leading innovation and ability to inspire team members to explore new ideas.
• Ability to “see around corners” and chart the course for future challenges and opportunities.
• Experienced at successful change management while respecting the existing culture of the organization
• Possesses excellent judgment. Shows wisdom and maturity in making decisions, while maintaining a balanced perspective and weighing a multiplicity of factors to achieve an optimal outcome.
• Continually monitor and propose periodic updates to the organization’s strategic plan to reflect the changing market, technology advancements, and business conditions.
• Steward CRNC’s reputation and build its brand and presence in and beyond through thoughtful, effective and strategic communication, active engagement with stakeholders, and conscious outreach beyond core constituents.

Fundraising

• Proven ability to identify, cultivate, and successfully engage individual donors and institutional funders.
• Demonstrated success connecting a funder’s interests with organizational goals in a manner that builds long term sustainable support.
• A persuasive, inspiring, and credible proponent of the organization.
• Ideally, has been involved in a campaign or an equivalent funding effort focused on institutional initiatives and capital goals.
• In collaboration with the Board of Directors, lead development efforts and target, cultivate and close new funding sources to build significant financial support from institutions and individuals.

Relationship Building, Outstanding Interpersonal Skills, and Strong Ability in Communications

• Has experience working with a nonprofit governing board and skilled at leveraging the talents of a committed and supportive Board of Directors.
• Knowledgeable about effective Board practice and governance; has experience helping a Board build consensus and develop strategy.
• Has a proven capacity to develop and maintain strong relationships with a wide range of important constituencies, partners, and funders; able to leverage those effectively to accomplish CRNC goals.
• Demonstrates an exceptional capacity to communicate and connect with people at all levels.
• Understands the experiences, values, and motivators of others. Has a transparent, open, and authentic style that brings people together. Exhibits the emotional intelligence required to lead an organization.
• Effectively builds coalitions necessary to accomplish goals through persuasion, networking, and broad influence.
• Able to inspire trust and respect at the highest levels across multiple sectors and disciplines.
• Confident, yet humble. Is institutionally minded rather than focused on self. Possesses a sense of humor with the ability to see the lighter side of difficult situations.
• Direct, effective communicator and good listener.

Operational Leadership and Business Acumen

• Able to engage and inspire the team to participate as CRNC continues to transform for the future.
• A willingness to connect the past with the future while propelling momentum around the acceptance of change in an evolving media landscape.
• Skilled at developing and leading an energized, motivated, collaborative, and committed team.
• Has an eye for talent and can develop and retain, and recruit as necessary, top talent across the organization who will bring positive change, ensuring that CRNC reflects the diversity of the community it serves and its listening area.
• Is committed to high standards as it relates to ethics, laws, standards, legislation, and emerging trends that may affect organizational practice.
• Recruit, develop, and retain top caliber and diverse team members, and continually reassess organizational structure and needs and the competitive environment evolve.
• Manages performance. Translates goals into actionable performance objectives that are easily understood, sets prompt execution standards, and holds teams accountable for agreed-upon results.
• Instills financial literacy and discipline throughout the organization’s professional staff and network to protect and enhance fiscal soundness as a way of enabling mission fulfillment.

The successful candidate would be expected to have the following qualifications and characteristics:

• Leadership experience: Visionary and inclusive leadership. Demonstrated success in conceiving and implementing creative strategies that increase impact. Accomplished executive management, including the formulation and execution of strategy, new business development, competitive market strategy and market creation, and the establishment of key partnerships and collaborations.
• Professional experience: Demonstrated ability to lead successfully and nimbly in highly dynamic professional industries. Knowledge of issues currently at play in media and journalism. Deep understanding of the ethical and professional standards and practices that guide public radio and media.
• Business and financial skills: An understanding of budgeting and forecasting, resource requirements, and revenue generation, and an ability to align those in the context of a strategic plan. Ability to create a framework for prioritizing resources; the skills needed to communicate priorities to others.
• Substantial experience in revenue generation: A record of success working with individual and organizational donors. An entrepreneurial mindset, as evinced in the ability to leverage resources and monetize activities and programs.
• Experience in talent development and support: Demonstrated success in attracting, retaining, and developing staff. Successful experience in building structures and processes that are rational and transparent. A leadership style that relies heavily on empowering colleagues, cultivating mutual respect, and encouraging teamwork.
• Outstanding communication skills: Ability to generate excitement around ideas, and to inspire cooperation and compromise. Clarity of expression matched by diplomacy and tact.
• Personal qualities: Superb interpersonal skills; integrity; the ability to lead an organization with fairness and humility. Personal and professional energy, resilience, patience, and optimism. An ability to engage individuals and groups through one’s personal style, humor, and warmth.

HOW TO APPLY:

CRNC is being assisted in this search by Livingston Associates.  Inquiries are welcome with Livingston Associates. For consideration, please visit the job posting and apply online at http://liv.jobs/dqnyk.

Apply by September 27, 2020

CRNC is an equal opportunity employer and encourages diversity in the workplace.

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits including health & dental care, life & short-term disability insurance, 403b retirement, paid holidays, maternity/paternity/partner leave and more.

About CRNC

After more than 47 years at Community Radio of Northern Colorado (CRNC), including serving as its president and CEO for the past 27 years, Neil Best has announced his plans to retire at the end of the year.  As a result, the CRNC Board of Directors have embarked on a national search to identify the person to best lead the station forward into a new era.

CRNC, operator of NPR-affiliate KUNC and The Colorado Sound, is a community-licensed not for profit 501 (c) (3) public radio station.  Located in Greeley, Colorado, its primary service area is the northern Colorado corridor and Colorado mountain communities. Colorado Radio Northern Colorado (CRNC) is the parent of two distinct radio stations—KUNC and The Colorado Sound, and a growing digital media presence. Initially established by the University of Northern Colorado (UNC), the station became independent in 2001 when a group of community volunteers raised $2 million in just 20 days to purchase KUNC’s license from UNC and preserve the station’s independent voice.  It has grown steadily ever since. Currently the organization fits in the mid-tier of public radio stations with annual revenues of just over $5 million. The organization has approximately 35 FTEs.

Search Assistance by Livingston Associates

Inquiries are welcome with Livingston Associates

http://livingstonassociates.net/

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Position:  President and General Manager

Website: https://www.pioneer.org/
Current Staff: https://www.pioneer.org/about/staff/

Pioneer Public Television (PBS), located in beautiful Granite Falls, MN, invites applications for the position of President and General Manager. This position is responsible for the overall vision, leadership, strategic direction and success of Pioneer PBS. Working closely with Board of Directors and other community and public sector leaders, this position provides leadership and direction in the strategic development and funding of programs and activities.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Embrace Pioneer’s values, vision and strategic mission, and actively work towards implementing its goals of inclusion and diversity
• Serve as the public face of Pioneer PBS and be the lead promoter in our broadcast communities
• Review financial statements, Direct business activities, Coordinate day-to-day operations of the station
• Direct or coordinate financial or budget activities to fund operations, maximize investments, or increase efficiency
• Manage the creation and execution of the organization’s overall annual operating plan and budget in a way that results in fiscal stability and health as determined by the annual financial audit
• Ensure compliance with all CPB grant regulations, state grant requirements, FCC rules, IRS rules, financial security guidelines, insurance requirements, and nonprofit good governance principles
• Represent Pioneer’s interest to PBS and other public service media organizations and associations
• Serve on the board of directors for the Minnesota Public Television Association (MPTA), and the Friends of MPTA
• Oversee the strategic direction for the station, based on strategic plans and direction from the board of directors
• Lead a staff of 25, including a management team of seven, to create an effective, positive and respectful workplace for all
• Act as the station’s primary liaison with the Minnesota State Legislature
• Engage in facilitating relationship-based philanthropy in support of fundraising goals
• Manage relationships or agreements for content distribution (cable, satellite, OTT, online, other providers or distributors)
• Stay current with technological trends affecting the creation and distribution of content, and with related business and nonprofit trends
• Participate actively in on-air fundraising or other on-air work as needed

For more detail, including the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities of the successful candidate, please visit the online posting where you apply at HERE.

Experience and requirements

• Minimum of five years of experience in leadership positions
• Demonstrated skills in public presentations
• Demonstrated integrity via a strong record of proven accountability to internal and external constituencies
• Experience in electronic media environments
• Experience with government relations
• BA in communications or equivalent experience
• Experience in working with boards, particularly in highly visible nonprofit organizations
• Demonstrated skill in fiscal management, human resources, and public presentations

Reports to: Board Chairman and Board of Directors

Direct Reports: Station Manager/Director of Engineering, Communications Director, Finance Director, Individual Planned & Major Gifts Director

About Pioneer PBS
Pioneer PBS is an award-winning, viewer-supported public television station dedicated to sharing local stories of the region with the world. Since 1966, Pioneer has served its rural audience through a mix of local and national programs rich in cultural heritage, diversity and educational opportunities. Our local programs include:

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The Production Assistant (PA) provides editorial, administrative and technical support to the department. The PA works directly with tape, editing first cuts of interviews for potential broadcast. The PA also researches and pitches stories, facilitates interviews, and produces audio for internal organizational use. The PA has a hand in each step of the production process, from story inception to final digital presentation.

StoryCorps tells stories from an inclusive range of American voices – with programs and initiatives including OutLoud, an initiative that collects the voices of the LGBTQ community, StoryCorps Griot to preserve stories of African Americans, StoryCorps Historias to collect the experiences of Latinos, and our National Teachers Initiative and Military Voices Initiative, focused on stories of America’s teachers and post-9/11 military, respectively. Candidates with knowledge of the histories and cultures of diverse communities are encouraged to apply.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Edit StoryCorps interviews from all tiers of service using ProTools
• Research, pitch, and record StoryCorps interviews at booths and in the field for potential production use
• Produce promos and other internal audio to support StoryCorps departments and radio partners
• Conduct fact-checking for broadcast series as needed
• Research, acquire, and edit photos for broadcast stories
• Draft and design web posts for digital story presentation as needed
• Facilitate Production interviews both locally and nationally
• Provide general administrative and technical support to the Production team
• Train and supervise Production interns, as assigned
• Train facilitators on Production best practices and processes
• Track production-worthy interview materials from tiers of service
• Support ongoing maintenance of department reports
• Manage weekly backup of StoryCorps content and maintain Production department broadcast archive
• Perform other tasks to support the Production function, as assigned

ABOUT YOU

• You have at least one year in an editorial environment
• You have a Bachelor’s degree
• You have a working knowledge of ProTools or a similar digital audio editing program
• You are proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and web-mail (e.g. G-mail)
• You know how to communicate effectively – whether that’s by email, phone or in person
• You’re organized, have a keen attention to detail, and you’re able to multi-task effectively
• You are flexible and adaptable to a growing, changing organization\
• You have cultural humility and an ability to work successfully with diverse groups of people
• You are able to work quickly and efficiently under deadline without sacrificing quality
• You love working closely with a team, you’re also comfortable working autonomously

ADDITIONAL SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

• You are proficient on a Mac platform.
• You have a basic understanding or fluency in a language other than English (Spanish strongly preferred)

ABOUT STORYCORPS

StoryCorps’ mission is to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world. Since our founding in 2003, StoryCorps has provided half a million of people of all backgrounds and beliefs with powerful opportunities to record interviews about their lives, and leave a legacy for future generations in our archive at the Library of Congress. We bring these interviews to life in stories produced for broadcast on public media (including our weekly Friday morning broadcast on NPR’s “Morning Edition”), our podcast, and/or our animations. Together, these stories reach an audience of tens of millions. StoryCorps maintains a relentless focus on diversity, and seeks to highlight voices often underrepresented in mainstream media. While our stories honor and celebrate the diversity of humankind, they also remind us of the many values and experiences we share in common, building bridges of greater understanding.

Our work has been widely recognized with several George Foster Peabody Awards, a MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions, the 2015 TED Prize, and a 2016 Emmy award for our animation “Traffic Stop.”

This work couldn’t be accomplished without the unwavering commitment of the exceptional individuals who make up our organization. Our people are brilliant, hard-working, creative, and incredibly passionate about the vision we share: To touch the lives of every person in this country and to create a culture of listening in the United States.To apply, please follow the link below:

https://storycorps.applytojob.com/apply/t1pSnVHqEW/Production-Assistant?source=publicmedianow

Applications without a cover letter will not be considered for candidacy.

StoryCorps seeks to hire staff who reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. All positions at StoryCorps are filled without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, HIV/AIDS status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. All are encouraged to apply.

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Nevada Public Radio, Las Vegas, NV

Job Description:
The Board of Directors of Nevada Public Radio (NVPR) seeks an experienced leader to be the next CEO for this two-station, Dual Licensed (News and Classical format stations), NPR service to the Las Vegas area. Nevada Public Radio also operates Desert Companion, a successful regional lifestyle magazine.

The successful candidate will be an energetic, experienced and enthusiastic leader with strong fundraising, journalistic and business management skills.

Candidate Profile:
We will consider candidates who most clearly demonstrate the skills and characteristics of the Candidate Profile. For more detail, please visit the posting where you submit your application at http://liv.jobs/g3k4c.

Job Description:
Nevada Public Radio has retained Livingston Associates to assist in this search. For consideration, please visit http://liv.jobs/g3k4c and submit a letter of introduction responsive to this profile and including your vision for the future of NVPR and why you will be the ideal person to lead the organization in achieving that vision, as well as a resume.

Date for full consideration: February 2, 2020.
Inquiries are welcome. Contact Livingston Associates at (410) 243-1974.

About Nevada Public Radio:
Nevada Public Radio is NPR in Las Vegas. A growing audience relies on their broadcast, print and digital distribution channels for a unique mix of local, national, and international news; entertainment and cultural content.

Nevada Public Radio was established in 1975 as an independent, not-for-profit, public benefit corporation. NVPR signed on the air in 1980 with one station serving the Las Vegas area as Nevada’s first National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate station. For nearly four decades, NVPR has remained true to its mission to enhance the quality of life and foster civic engagement by informing, educating and inspiring a growing audience through public media – including content on-air, in print and online.

Their broadcast network includes two FM stations serving the Las Vegas metropolitan area – News 88.9 KNPR and Classical KCNV 89.7. NVPR now serves a population of more than 2.7-million people and has a weekly audience in excess of 190,000. NVPR is the publisher of the award-winning Desert Companion monthly magazine and the producer of KNPR’s State of Nevada.

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