Pacifica Job Announcement: Executive Director

With an annual budget of over 18 million dollars, 173 paid staff, and over 1,000 unpaid staff and volunteers, Pacifica encourages and provides outlets for the creative skills and energies of its staff and the communities it serves while seeking to enhance the cultural welfare of the areas in which it operates. The Foundation is governed by an elected Board of Directors comprised of individuals who support Pacifica’s mission of peace, social justice and progressive social change.

The Executive Director is responsible for all day-to-day management activities of the Foundation including the hiring, firing and supervising of national office and managerial staff; implementing Board policy and by-laws; overseeing fundraising and development activities; supervising production and distribution of national programming; working with the Chief Financial Officer to maintain fiscal and physical integrity; complying with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and FCC rules and regulations and State and Federal laws and requirements. It is the job of the Executive Director to ensure that the Foundation is managed in a fiscally and socially-responsible fashion that complies with its mission. The Executive Director will also be responsible for navigating the institution through major technological changes and responding to political and financial challenges.

The Executive Director reports to the collective body of the 22 member Pacifica Foundation Board of Directors. The Executive Director is selected, supervised, and discharged by the Board and is subject to the Board’s annual evaluation.

SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE:

1. Executive management skills (e.g., financial/program planning, managerial expertise, human relations/resources);
2. Broadcasting industry skills and experience including programming, distribution, marketing and fundraising;
3. Ability to work cooperatively with the Board of Directors, staff and station management;
4. Excellent communication skills (written and oral);
5. The ability to provide visionary leadership in a diverse, multi-cultural, and intellectually charged environment;
6. A personal commitment to peace, economic and social justice; and
7. Experience working in a volunteer-driven, grassroots, social change institution, preferably in the field of radio broadcast media;
8. We are particularly interested in candidates with a vision that includes using digital distribution of programming to increase audience and opportunities for participation in civic media; and
9. Spanish bilingual desirable.

EXPERIENCE/EDUCATION:

The ideal candidate will possess a college degree and/or at least 10 years of relevant radio broadcast experience, including experience as a 501(c) (3) non-profit manager, or similar position, two years preferably as a General Manager of a noncommercial radio broadcasting station or similar position.

Women, people of color, and member of other underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply

SALARY RANGE:

Starting salary $80,000, negotiable depending on experience

Send cover letter and resume to:
Phil Osegueda
The Pacifica Foundation
1925 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: 510-849-2590, x 210;
E-Mail: gratephil [at] gmail.com

The Pacifica Foundation is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against people on the basis of race, gender, gender identity, ethnicity, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, color, ancestry, national origin, marital status, medical condition, age or disability.