WDET On-Air Personality

Wayne State University is searching for an experienced WDET On-Air Personality at its Detroit campus location.

Wayne State is a premier public urban research university located in the heart of Detroit Michigan where students from all backgrounds are offered a rich high-quality education. Our deep-rooted commitment to excellence collaboration integrity diversity and inclusion creates exceptional educational opportunities which prepare students for success in a global society.

Job Purpose

Serve as the editorial voice of WDET while hosting a livedaily multi-platform news and current affairs-driven talk show. Providevision practical leadership and participate in the hands-on creation processof a talk show program that is consistent with the mission and goals of WDETdistinguishing and elevating WDET content and editorial POV. Serve as a keythought leader in WDETs service to Southeast Michigan residents and act as akey driver in helping WDET achieve its overall audience service and engagementgoals across radio social media and live events. This position reports to Senior Producer.

Essential Functions
(Essential functions are the primary duties/major jobresponsibilities that an employee must be able to perform with or withoutreasonable accommodation. The essential functions are listed in order ofimportance.)

• Host dailyand special programming for on-air and digital platforms and contribute regularweb content including blogging and curation. Engage listeners through socialmedia on a daily basis. Cultivate standing credibility with the a communication methodology that embraces a variation of discussiontopics from news stories to cultural entertainment on a local national andglobal scale.
• Working inpartnership with the Senior Producer provide day-to-day direction for programdevelopment. Actively support program diversity in the shows contentperspective and voices. Contribute to and participate in efforts related tomulti-platform content delivery and integration. Participate in interviews andmentorship and act in the absence of the Senior Producer in managing programproducers. Directly supervise and coach additional content contributorsincluding co-hosts.
• Working inpartnership with the General Manager serves a vital role as part of WDETssenior leadership team and provides strategic guidance on the organizationseditorial and community service plans. Build rapport with WDET communitypartners and colleagues in the station to develop an environment ofcollaboration and innovation aligning with WDETs overarching strategicinitiatives. Cultivate the growth of WDETs presence in local networking eventsand functions that will reflect a positive engagement with community partnersaudience and contributors.
• As part ofthe strategic leadership team this position will be responsible forcross-collaborating with WDET staff at meetings to develop an innovativeapproach for generating stories and ideas to engage the audience.
• Represent thehighest ideals of WDETs mainstream major market multi-ethnic communityservice mission vision and values. Serve as a key thought leader in WDETsservice to the widest cross section of Southeast Michigan residents.
• Working inpartnership with the Program Director provide leadership in the development ofprogramming and engagement across radio digital mobile and social mediaplatforms. Empower WDETs community with culturally diverse stories and currentevents to enrich audience engagement.
• Participatein development and execution of on-air fundraisers.

• Performother related duties as assigned.

Education Bachelors degree
Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university in Journalism or equivalent work experience. Advanced degree preferred.

Experience Expert (established subject matter expert 7 years experience)
Radio broadcast experience required. Working experience in journalism or clear ability to embody and embrace the principles of mainstream journalism as practiced in the public radio environment.

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Leadership: Ability to articulate a vision develop long-term strategies and motivate others around individual and team goals.
• Interpersonal: Demonstrated ability to be persuasive professional collegial entertaining and effective in a variety of forms and formats (broadcast written and public events.) Demonstrated ability to effectively connect with multi-ethnic multi-cultural audiences and able to quickly establish a rapport with guests and contributors who bring diverse voices and perspectives. Ability to build and maintain relationships at all levels of an organization and across a diverse range of cultural generational ethnic racial educational and social backgrounds.
• Communication: Ability to communicate clearly concisely and professionally both orally and in writing with a diverse population.
• Digital/Social: Experience and familiarity with digital tools building community and online news consumption habits preferred. Demonstrated ability to use social media in a news and content delivery context particularly as it applies to online engagement that shapes stories broadens the base of participation and includes a wider community in the contents mission vision and values
• Ability to generate complex spreadsheets and manage databases and working knowledge of database systems.

H72 - WDET

H8703 - WDET (H8703)

• Regular Employee
• Job type: Full Time
• Job category: Staff/Administrative

• Compensation type: Annual Salary
• Hourly rate:
• Salary minimum: TBD
• Salary hire maximum: TBD

Office environment.

• Number of openings: 1
• Reposted position: No
• Reposted reason: None (New Requisition)
• Prior posting/requisition number:

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