They should have an understanding of public broadcasting as it is, as well as thoughts about the system as it could be. Offices and studio are located at St. Olaf College, WCAL's licensee, in Northfield, with auxiliary facilities in Minneapolis and a repeater station in Rochester, Minnesota. In addition to content creation, the director coordinates all production, operations, and engineering needs of WCAL's broadcast facilities. This person supervises three direct reports and a total department of 11 professional broadcasters, plus part-time student assistants. Candidates will be experienced Program Directors looking for growth and new challenges.
Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience.
The Program Director is responsible for supervising and coordinating the overall on-air product that includes news, information and entertainment. St. Louis is the 19th largest market in the nation, and the Program Director is resposible for making programming decisions, determining program selection and acquisition as needed. Strong production, administrative and creative writings skills preferred. Application review in process. Station Manager develops effective station policies and practices emphasizing delegation, distributed responsibility and continuing education, and directs professional staff in programming, news, local production, promotion, public information and traffic, and part-time student employees and volunteers whose goal is to combine station work with university studies.