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Employment

WAMC has the following employment opportunities available:

President and Chief Executive Officer
Albany, New York

WAMC/Northeast Public Radio (WAMC) seeks a visionary and collaborative leader to serve as its President and Chief Executive Officer (President/CEO).

Established in 1982, WAMC is an award-winning, independent, regional, non-commercial 501(3), public radio network based in Albany, New York that serves parts of seven northeastern states, including New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Jersey, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania, as well as parts of Canada. A member of National Public Radio (NPR) and an affiliate of PRX, WAMC operates 24 hours a day, every day of the year, with stations and translators in twenty-nine locations throughout the region.

With over 450,000 monthly listeners, WAMC ranks among the most-listened-to public radio stations in the United States. WAMC’s listeners are dedicated to the content it provides; 84% of WAMC listeners prefer WAMC over all other radio stations according to a 2022 National Public Radio Listener Profile. The organization has more than 50 employees, it runs six news bureaus throughout its listening area and operates out of a state-of-the-art broadcast center in Albany, the capital of New York State. WAMC produces the vast majority of its programming in-house, which is a rarity in public radio and a true point of pride for the station’s talented staff and devoted listeners. WAMC’s National Productions creates programming that is heard on stations across the country. Its news coverage has garnered recognition from the industry; for the past four consecutive years – 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020 – WAMC has received a prestigious Regional Edward R. Murrow Award. More than a radio station, WAMC is a public media enterprise, streaming its programs online, producing weekly podcasts for download and distribution, and maintaining a significant web presence through WAMC.org and the WAMC app.

WAMC seeks a President/CEO who will embrace its passion for independent, high-quality, and accurate information; its investment in local news; and its mission to provide in-depth, dynamic and well-informed civic, educational, and cultural programming. Working with the Board, staff, and stakeholders of WAMC, the new CEO will craft and execute a vision and strategy for WAMC that is enterprising and sustainable. The President/CEO will be a forward-thinking and experienced executive, a sophisticated manager of human and financial resources, and a leader committed to open communication, the free exchange of ideas, mutual respect, and transparency as befits an organization devoted to information-sharing and informed discourse. Given that this is a time of dynamic change in the industry, it will be important that the next leader have an openness and a willingness to chart new courses in content, delivery platforms, revenue streams, marketing, and audience engagement while maintaining WAMC’s unique community-driven programming.

Isaacson, Miller, the national executive search firm, has been retained to support the search committee in this effort. Confidential inquiries, nominations, referrals, and applications can be submitted electronically to:

Karen Avery, Partner
Mia Carpiniello, Senior Associate
Isaacson, Miller
https://www.imsearch.com/open-searches/WAMC-northeast-public-radio/president

WAMC is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of WAMC that all employees and applicants for employment will be treated and considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, political affiliation or belief, genetic information, veteran status, familial status, domestic violence status, arrest or conviction record, or any other protected classification.

Full President and CEO Position Profile


WAMC Community Representation Policy Statement

WAMC is committed to recruiting for its staff, volunteers and boards highly capable, diverse individuals who can participate in the organization effectively, ethically and creatively and who can serve as successful advocates for public media in the communities we serve. Differences in race, color, age, national origin/ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability or veteran status, or any other distinguishing factors provide experiences, viewpoints and ideas that can strengthen and enrich our work environment. WAMC aims to create an environment that is inclusive, respectful and equitable, and to employ the talents of people with different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

The overall goal of WAMC is to provide programming as varied as the human experience. Our mission is to serve the public by preparing and presenting non-profit and non-commercial educational, instructional, and cultural radio and live programs that celebrate the diversity of our broadcast and live audience. Our two discrete program streams provide a unique blend of national and regional news and information, opinion and commentary, artistic, cultural, and musical programming to listeners in portions of seven states. We continue to produce and invest in programs that offer diverse perspectives on important issues.

In our journalism, diversity means the inclusion in our reporting of the vastly different voices and opinions of mis or under-represented people and those often ignored. WAMC strives to include differing opinions in our content. To do this, we consciously think of and discuss what diversity includes; race and ethnicity, gender, socio-economic status, faith, age, sexual orientation, disabilities, political affiliation and geographic location. In this way, our staff and content will continually evolve and ultimately be unbiased.

WAMC Community Representation Goals

  1. Review with the station’s governing board those practices that are designed to fulfill the station’s commitment to diversity and to meet the applicable FCC guidelines.
  2. Move from a diversity reflex to an inclusion instinct. WAMC strives to cultivate a workplace in which everyone feels welcomed and empowered.
  3. Diversifying our workplace, content, and audiences through increased, varied participation in public events.
  4. Continue to assess programming and the diversity of WAMC radio content to align with the goal of audience diversification.
  5. Continue to conduct unconscious bias training for all staff in management roles and annual harassment training for all staff.
  6. Complete an annual report describing the station’s diversity efforts. Included will be the station’s hiring goals, guidelines, employment statistics for the station and surrounding area, a list of all full and part-time positions hired and any actions taken to support the Community Representation Policy. This report will be posted on our website.

Reviewed & Updated November 2023