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Form of work**Who We Are & What We Can Offer You: **
WBUR is Boston’s NPR and a public media leader, producing exceptional journalism on-air, online, on-demand, and in real life. Our mission is to produce high-quality journalism and enriching experiences that foster understanding, connection, and community for an expanding circle of people. WBUR is member-supported and licensed to Boston University.
WBUR is brimming with talent and ambition. Our colleagues work hard, strive for excellence, value truth, creativity, diverse perspectives, and open debate. Our culture is warm and welcoming — no matter what your role is — we work hard to ensure that everyone feels like they belong. On top of that people are both respectful and passionate about the work we do.
We’ve got exciting plans to keep innovating and building WBUR for the future. It’s a place to do meaningful work with interesting people and to learn and grow along the way.
We offer our employees both hybrid and in-office work arrangements.
We also offer:
- Health and Well Being Benefits including Gender Affirming Healthcare
- Paid Time Off, Holidays & Intersession
- Tuition Remission and Professional Development through Boston University
**The Opportunity and Who You’ll Work With: **
Position Type: Permanent, Full Time, Benefits Eligible
Work Format: Onsite – 5 days per week
Schedule: Monday – Friday. Hours are typically 08:00AM-04:00PM ET.
Radio Boston is a local midday show that serves a rich and diverse Greater Boston. We want to be the go-to show for conversations about what's happening in our communities and who is most affected by those events. Our goal is to go deep into topics, focus on the "why?" and "how?" questions of daily news, and embrace nuanced, honest conversations.
If this sounds exciting, we want to hear from you. We' re looking for a journalist eager to pitch story ideas that matter most to a changing region. Someone who is curious, thoughtful, rigorous and collaborative. Someone interested in daily journalism, multi-platform storytelling and community listening.
As Producer/Director, you will be responsible for conceiving show ideas and developing them into segments and other show elements for the hour-long daily program. You will direct the live program by giving direction and time cues to the host and technical director. You will be responsible for checking the show's sound elements and ensuring they are in the correct order.
You will be an active, collaborative member of the Radio Boston team, working closely with host, executive producer and fellow producers to deliver high-quality programming that resonates with the Greater Boston community.
Essential Functions:
- (50%) Pitch ideas for segments and interviews for the hour-long program. Oversee all aspects of segment production, including research, pre and post-production, scripting, tape gathering, and host preparation.
- (25%) Direct the live show, coordinating with other team members on show elements, map out show clock, and provide live direction to host, technical director and other teammates in the control room.
- (15%) Develop and producer off-platform show elements, engagement and audience development strategies.
- (10%) Collaborate with team members and across the newsroom and organization on planning and news strategy.
Required Skills
**What You’ll Need to Succeed: **
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent/relevant experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of related experience.
Capabilities and Proficiencies:
- An excitement about WBUR’s mission to provide an essential public good: high-quality journalism and enriching experiences that foster understanding, connection and community.
- Must pay strong attention to local news and newsmakers in Greater Boston.
- Ability to think creatively about how to produce great conversations.
- Ability to pitch original ideas.
- Proficiency with Google suite.
- Proficiency with audio editing software.
In an ongoing effort to enrich our organizational culture, WBUR is committed to building a staff and leadership team that reflects the diversity of our city, region and nation.
Designing an organization where everyone thrives, creating connection and community that permeates our workplace requires real change across all facets of what we do and who we are.
We must hire, support, develop, advance and retain diverse talent at all levels of the organization with a standard of inclusive excellence.
If you are excited by this opportunity and have a passion for our mission - whether you meet all or some of our criteria - we want to talk to you. After submitting your application – join ourTalent Community!
**If you require an ADA reasonable accommodation to complete your application and/or participate in the interview process, please let us knowhere. **
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, natural or protective hairstyle, religion, sex, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military service, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, or because of marital, parental, or veteran status. We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.
Required Experience
**What You’ll Need to Succeed: **
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent/relevant experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of related experience.
Capabilities and Proficiencies:
- An excitement about WBUR’s mission to provide an essential public good: high-quality journalism and enriching experiences that foster understanding, connection and community.
- Must pay strong attention to local news and newsmakers in Greater Boston.
- Ability to think creatively about how to produce great conversations.
- Ability to pitch original ideas.
- Proficiency with Google suite.
- Proficiency with audio editing software.
In an ongoing effort to enrich our organizational culture, WBUR is committed to building a staff and leadership team that reflects the diversity of our city, region and nation.
Designing an organization where everyone thrives, creating connection and community that permeates our workplace requires real change across all facets of what we do and who we are.
We must hire, support, develop, advance and retain diverse talent at all levels of the organization with a standard of inclusive excellence.
If you are excited by this opportunity and have a passion for our mission - whether you meet all or some of our criteria - we want to talk to you. After submitting your application – join ourTalent Community!
**If you require an ADA reasonable accommodation to complete your application and/or participate in the interview process, please let us knowhere. **
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, natural or protective hairstyle, religion, sex, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military service, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, or because of marital, parental, or veteran status. We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.
