WDET On-Air Personality

WDET On-Air Personality

Wayne State University is searching for an experiencedWDET On-Air Personalityat 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.

Essential functions (job duties):

Job Purpose

Serve as the editorial voice of WDET while hosting a live daily, multi-platform news and current affairs-driven talk show. Provide vision, practical leadership and participate in the hands-on creation process of a talk show program that is consistent with the mission and goals of WDET, distinguishing and elevating WDET content and editorial POV. Serve as a key thought leader in WDET’s service to Southeast Michigan residents and act as a key driver in helping WDET achieve its overall audience service and engagement goals across radio, social media, and live events. This position reports to Senior Producer.

Essential Functions

(Essential functions are the primary duties/major job responsibilities that an employee must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation. The essential functions are listed in order of importance.)

• Host daily and special programming for on-air and digital platforms and contribute regular web content, including blogging and curation. Engage listeners through social media on a daily basis. Cultivate standing credibility with the audience. Embody a communication methodology that embraces a variation of discussion topics from news stories to cultural entertainment on a local, national, and global scale.

• Working in partnership with the Senior Producer, provide day-to-day direction for program development. Actively support program diversity in the shows content, perspective, and voices. Contribute to and participate in efforts related to multi-platform content delivery and integration. Participate in interviews and mentorship and act in the absence of the Senior Producer in managing program producers. Directly supervise and coach additional content contributors including co-hosts.

• Working in partnership with the General Manager serves a vital role as part of WDET’s senior leadership team and provides strategic guidance on the organizations’ editorial and community service plans. Build rapport with WDET community partners and colleagues in the station to develop an environment of collaboration and innovation aligning with WDET’s overarching strategic initiatives. Cultivate the growth of WDET’s presence in local networking events and functions that will reflect a positive engagement with community partners, audience, and contributors.

• As part of the strategic leadership team, this position will be responsible for cross-collaborating with WDET staff at meetings to develop an innovative approach for generating stories and ideas to engage the audience.

• Represent the highest ideals of WDET’s mainstream, major market, multi-ethnic community service mission, vision, and values. Serve as a key thought leader in WDET’s service to the widest cross section of Southeast Michigan residents.

• Working in partnership with the Program Director, provide leadership in the development of programming and engagement across radio, digital, mobile, and social media platforms. Empower WDET’s community with culturally diverse stories and current events to enrich audience engagement.

• Participate in development and execution of on-air fundraisers.

• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Education Bachelor's degree

­Bachelor’s 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 content’s mission, vision, and values

• Ability to generate complex spreadsheets and manage databases and working knowledge of database systems.

School/College/Division:

H72 - WDET

Primary department:

H8703 - WDET (H8703)

Employment type:

• Regular Employee

• Job type: Full Time

• Job category: Staff/Administrative

Funding/salary information:

• Compensation type: Annual Salary

• Hourly rate:

• Salary minimum: TBD

• Salary hire maximum: TBD

Working conditions:

Office environment.

Job openings:

• Number of openings: 1

• Reposted position: No

• Reposted reason: None (New Requisition)

• Prior posting/requisition number:

Background check requirements:

University policy requires certain persons who are offered employment to undergo a background check, including a criminal history check, before starting work. If you are offered employment, the university will inform you if a background check is required.

The university welcomes applications from persons with disabilities and veterans. Wayne State is an equal opportunity employer.