Executive Director
WDIY
Bethlehem
,
PA
Application Deadline: Wednesday, Aug 01, 2018
Description
Lehigh Valley Community Broadcasters Association (LVCBA) is seeking an experienced leader (public media, non-profit or community leader) to serve as Executive Director of its radio station, WDIY-FM. The station, from its studios in South Bethlehem, serves the two-county Lehigh Valley area (population 660,000) with additional coverage of surrounding regions in eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey. WDIY is the Lehigh Valley’s only NPR Member Station.
WDIY Stakeholders, including our board, staff (both paid and volunteer) and community partners have developed a list of the qualities we seek in our next leader. We will consider and select from candidates who most clearly demonstrate those qualities. For more detail, please visit the full posting here.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Broadcast, or Business Administration or an equivalent combination of education and related experience.
- Minimum of three years of executive experience in public/community broadcasting.
- Strong financial skills, with a proven record in building revenues.
- Successful background in leading staff and directing volunteer activities.
- Ability to develop strategic partnerships with other organizations.
- Experienced in applying the latest communication technologies in a multi-platform broadcast environment.
- Effective oral and written communication skills, as well as strong interpersonal skills.
- Thorough knowledge of FCC public broadcasting regulations.
HOW TO APPLY
WDIY 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 here.
Apply by August 1, 2018
WDIY is an EEO/AA employer.
About WDIY
The Lehigh Valley Community Broadcasters Association Inc. was founded in 1984, and is the community licensee of WDIY, Lehigh Valley Public Radio. The mission of WDIY as a public radio station is to engage the Lehigh Valley community through a wide-ranging exchange of music, arts, news, and culturally diverse information. The LVCBA is led by a volunteer Board of Directors that is committed to the idea of community public radio, a combination of national content from NPR interspersed with a roughly equal amount of WDIY community volunteer produced programming combined into a single integrated broadcast schedule. WDIY is the sole NPR Member Station located in the Lehigh Valley. http://wdiy.org/
The “Lehigh Valley” is a term used to describe the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton metropolitan area, in Northampton and Lehigh Counties in eastern Pennsylvania. With a population of approximately 700,000, the Lehigh Valley is the third largest metropolitan area in Pennsylvania. The center of the Valley in Bethlehem is 55 miles north of center city Philadelphia, and 70 miles west of midtown Manhattan. The Pocono Mountain region of northeastern Pennsylvania is north of the Lehigh Valley; the Pennsylvania Dutch tourism region lies west. The area features a mix of rural countryside and modern amenities, including a high quality cultural environment and numerous nationally known institutions of higher education (four universities, four colleges, and two community colleges). The area is particularly rich culturally in the performing arts, and supports three major outdoor music festivals each year, plus the Allentown Symphony Orchestra and the Bach Choir, and the recently opened ArtsQuest SteelStacks cultural campus on the site of the former Bethlehem Steel Works. Events taking place can be viewed on our webpage at www.publicbroadcasting.net/wdiy/events.eventsmain.
Search Assistance by Livingston Associates
Inquiries are welcome with Livingston Associates
http://livingstonassociates.net/