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Job Summary:
NEOGOV is associated with Bellevue College, which is a vibrant, student-centered institution. The KBCS General Manager is responsible for overseeing station operations, programming, and community outreach activities, ensuring that KBCS fulfills its mission and financial objectives while managing staff and strategic initiatives.
Responsibilities:
• Leads a fully functioning multi-platform media station with a focus on increasing community impact, audience, and revenue. Measures success using broadcast audience data, streaming and app usage, social media engagement, listener feedback, and fundraising results.
• Upholds and safeguards the KBCS community radio vision and mission for the future of the organization and institutes a measurable plan for achieving it.
• Encourages innovation across all levels of the station and guides the station through a changing media landscape in order remain relevant.
• Participates in Institutional Advancement division staff meetings, leads KBCS departmental staff meetings, and otherwise acts as a liaison between the station, Institutional Advancement, and Bellevue College.
• Supervises KBCS Operations Manager, Music Director, Public Affairs Programming Director, contracted engineers, and various other part-time positions. Selects and hires staff, makes recommendations for disciplinary action, approves/denies leave requests, evaluates employee performance on a yearly basis, resolves grievances in consultation with HR, establishes office expectations, and takes corrective action.
• Provides feedback, instruction, and encouragement to staff to enable continuous improvement and to promote optimum job performance.
• Works in tandem with the Vice President of Institutional Advancement and Bellevue College Foundation on KBCS budgeting.
• Formulates the annual budget and manages expenditures to meet budget constraints.
• Manages and maintains procedures and support for fiscal management of station operations, to conform to college policies and procedures.
• Works with the Bellevue College Foundation Senior Director of Development to lead the work of the KBCS Development Director.
• Strategizes with the KBCS Development Director on revenue raising initiatives including donor solicitation and stewardship, retention and fiscal growth; underwriting, grant writing, compliance and outcomes; events and endowment activities.
• Pursues opportunities to increase station revenue. Initiates and conducts major donor solicitation initiatives and manages a portfolio of station major donors.
• Ensures that KBCS operates within the relevant regulatory parameters and complies with grant, funder, and other external requirements, as well as all state and federal laws and College policies and procedures.
• Monitors KBCS programming and other activities to ensure they reflect the station's mission.
• Works to ensure that all necessary records and reports are current and made available.
• Provides strategic operations-related direction and oversight to the KBCS Operations Manager, Music Director, Public Affairs Programming Director, part-time engineers and other staff.
• Improves station operations and broadcast quality output through the acquisition and implementation of new broadcast technology including the use of broadcast automation to improve program quality and increase station operation efficiencies.
• Actively represents KBCS and its stakeholders on campus and in the broadcast journalism and music industry communities.
• Initiates productive partnerships, promotes the brand and market position of the station, and attracts new advocates and contributors to the station.
• Oversees dissemination of public relations information on KBCS.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's degree in English, Communications, Media, or Music. Any combination of relevant education and experience may be substituted for the educational requirement for a year-for-year basis; experience in a closely related field in media or music may be substituted for degree.
• Minimum six (6) years of equivalent and demonstrated work experience in public or community radio.
• Knowledge and demonstrated ability to produce and/or curate consistent radio programs that include a variety of genres.
• Experience working with a broad and diverse donor base including individual donors and foundations and a working understanding of non-profit fundraising practices.
• Effective computer skills, including Adobe Audition or related digital audio editing software, as well as Word, Excel, Outlook, basic web and other PC-based applications.
• Effective organization and record keeping skills.
• Effective oral and written communication skills, including public speaking skills.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain effective professional relationships with volunteers, paid staff, and other stakeholders.
• Knowledge of the value of a community-based public radio station.
• Demonstrated experience working with individuals of diverse backgrounds.
Preferred:
• Master's Degree in the Communication, Media, Fine Arts and/or the Arts preferred.
• Ten years (10) full-time management experience at a CPB qualified public radio station with at least two years working as a station manager.
Company:
NEOGOV is the leading provider of workforce management software uniquely designed for the public sector, education, and public safety. Founded in 1999, the company is headquartered in El Segundo, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.