Employment
WAMC has the following employment opportunities available:
Live Show & Podcast Producer
WAMC is seeking a dynamic producer for live shows, newscasts, and podcasts. The person in this role is responsible for producing high-quality live and recorded audio/video content across broadcast radio, podcasts, YouTube, and digital platforms. This includes managing the daily production calendar, prepping the host, booking guests and contributors, building rundowns, and ensuring every piece of content is ready for daily broadcast. The producer will host as needed, and serve as the editorial bridge to the show's social/digital team, providing footage access and timestamp notes after each broadcast so the team can produce short-form clips for YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, and TikTok.
This is a demanding, multi-platform, deadline-intensive role. The ideal candidate has done daily live production before, understands YouTube workflows, and is ready to bring that experience to something new and locally important.
Full-time, on-site.
Starting Salary $52,000
Please submit a resume and cover letter to Chris Gauthier at cgauthier@wamc.org. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Senior Producer
WAMC is seeking a dynamic producer to be the daily engine behind some of the station’s most distinctive programs, including The Roundtable, an award-winning, nationally recognized daily talk program, featuring news, interviews, in-depth discussion, music, and more!
This role requires the ability to excel at speed, with editorial agility, and live-broadcast composure, but also prioritizes depth, preparation, and the ability to build an interview that goes somewhere. The person in this role also supervises junior production staff, sets the editorial standard for the team, and serves as a key editorial partner to the Executive Producer. We're looking for someone with live production experience, genuine curiosity about the news, culture, deep roots in or connection to this region, and the steadiness to help lead a team through the pressure of daily broadcast.
Full-time, on-site.
Starting Salary $57,500
Please submit a resume and cover letter to Jessica Denue at jdenue@wamc.org. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Controller
WAMC is seeking a Controller to serve as a strategic partner and advisor to the President, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Development Officer, and the Leadership Team. Responsible for understanding and shaping the strategic direction of the organization’s financial structure and integrity; providing leadership in both short and long-term financial planning and additional streams of revenue.
The Controller is responsible for all aspects of financial plans and accounting practices, including among others, accounting and financial reporting, cash management, grant accounting, budgeting and forecasts, compliance, audit activities, risk management, accounting policies and procedures and internal controls.They serve as the lead executive interacting with the Finance and Audit Committees of the Board.
The Controller works collaboratively with the leadership team to set financial policy and procedures, while being an active participant, and driver, of the organization’s overall financial strategy.They work closely with department heads, banking relationships, key vendors, and outside partners.
While a primary function of the Controller is to look ahead, they must also be able to analyze, and learn from, past financial performance in order to accurately predict, and guide, the organization’s financial future.
Full-time, on-site.
Starting Salary $90,000
Please submit a resume and cover letter to Jessica Denue at jdenue@wamc.org. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
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.
WAMC Community Representation Policy Statement
WAMC is the home of curiosity, community and free speech for our region. We connect communities, amplify diverse stories, and enrich lives through independent journalism, thoughtful conversation, and cultural expression.
WAMC strives to reflect our community in our staffing, board of trustees, committees, and in the educational, informational, and cultural content we provide.
The overall goal of WAMC is to provide programming as varied as the human experience. 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.