Program Manager, BizLab

WBUR
Boston , MA

Application Deadline: Friday, Nov 30, 2018

Description

BizLab’s Program Manager will be a core member of WBUR’s Public Radio Business Laboratory. BizLab’s mission is to identify and evaluate new revenue sources for public radio by testing and evaluating business models at WBUR and at partner public media stations across the country. The Program Manager will coordinate the activities around this work, both by taking the lead on a portion of WBUR’s experiments and by coordinating our collaborations with other public radio stations.

This position offers you a unique opportunity to work with public media organizations, business innovators, and experience designers across the country, to work on the enormous challenge of identifying sustainable revenue models for independent journalism. This position requires a “roll up your sleeves” execution mindset, attention to detail, and lots of enthusiasm for doing things for the first time. Preference will be given to candidates who have knowledge of design thinking, entrepreneurism, and journalism. This position can serve as a launching pad for someone looking to pursue a career in nonprofit business innovation.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree and at least 2 years of professional experience including project and/or people management.
  • Experience with the practices of design thinking, user research, lean startups, and agile methods.
  • Strong project coordination and communication experience and skills. Experience with productivity and task management software, with an opinion on which tools are ideal for which types of situations. (E.g. EverNote vs. SmartSheets vs. Todoist vs. Slack)
  • Proven ability to establish and manage good working relationships with wide array colleagues and collaborate effectively with a dynamic team, as well as with external collaborators in remote locations.
  • Learning mindset and entrepreneurial spirit. Enthusiastic about tackling diverse and unexpected challenges, keeping focus on producing a quality product, ready for customer evaluation.
  • Excellent writing skills, along with strong communication and troubleshooting skills.
  • Familiarity with workplace tools such as Outlook, Google Docs, Google Hangouts, and Slack, a plus.
  • Familiarity with and/or willingness to learn WordPress, Mailchimp, Constant Contact, Shopify, Survey Monkey, Google Docs and Forms, and basic website administration.
  • Knowledge of and interest in the topics of innovation, organization cultural change, and digital disruption, as they relate to public media, is a strong plus.

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