Assistant Producer, The Brian Lehrer Show

This is a Full Time Job

Assistant Producer, The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC Radio seeks an Assistant Producer for The Brian Lehrer Show, one of our flagship news/magazine talk shows.

The show’s production team strives to create a place, on-air and online, where listeners and newsmakers get together to get beyond the headlines. The Brian Lehrer Show is a live, daily, local call-in show. We cover news and public affairs all over the country and the world, with a special focus on local issues in New York and New Jersey. The show is a leader among public radio broadcasters in interactivity and crowdsourcing.

Job responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Assist the producers and host in all aspects of program production
• Generate and research show topics and creative ideas that utilize the show’s various platforms
• Book and pre-interview guests
• Write scripts and prepare background materials for host
• Provide administrative support including bill reconciliation, booking studios, maintaining archives, databases, and other related duties as assigned
• Identify and edit tape for broadcast
• Write and distribute promotional copy
• Maintain the show’s website including writing copy, building surveys, quizzes, and other special features
• Maintain the show’s social networking presence
• Maintain relationships with sources, guests, and colleagues, on behalf of the show
• Comply with New York Public Radio and department policies and guidelines
• This position requires use of a computer, telephone and other office and/or broadcast equipment; ability to communicate effectively through a variety of methods; requires ability to work extended hours/overtime as needed
• Work on other special projects and duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree required
• One year minimum journalism experience required
• Familiarity with journalism issues required
• Sound organizational skills, with great attention to detail required
• Extensive research skills required
• Ability to meet objectives under deadline pressure required
• Ability to work in a group environment, and take direction required
• Radio listener (public and commercial) preferred
• Excellent communication skills—both oral and written—with an impressive reputation for building and maintaining relationships with people at all levels of an organization, across a diverse range of cultural, generational, ethnic, racial, educational and social backgrounds
• Requires the intellectual and emotional depth, maturity, self-confidence and interpersonal skills to work effectively and/or interact with other programming staff, executives at New York Public Radio, colleagues, sources and guests

This position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement between New York Public Radio and AFTRA.

Note: The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees, and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the employer.


About New York Public Radio:

New York Public Radio is home to three of the country’s leading public radio stations* — WNYC 93.9 FM, WNYC AM 820 and WQXR 105.9 FM — as well as The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space. WNYC is a major producer of original content for public radio nationwide. Five WNYC programs — Radio Lab, On the Media, Studio 360, The Brian Lehrer Show, and Radio Rookies, its youth journalism program serving teens in all five boroughs — have been recognized with George Foster Peabody Awards, the highest honor in broadcasting journalism. Our news department and shows have received many other journalism and broadcasting awards over the years as well. The organization was recognized by The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists with an American Scene Award for its diversity and inclusion in programming and employment.

WQXR is New York City’s only all-classical music station. And The Greene Space is a street-front broadcast studio and live venue where audiences can experience our programming in person and online. New York Public Radio’s online platforms include wnyc.org, wqxr.org and thegreenespace.org. With an urban vibrancy and a global perspective, we are becoming the centerpiece of a community of more than 5 million each week, reaching radio, web and studio audiences in New York, across the country and around the world. On any given day we bring our listeners a unique and thought-provoking array of news, current affairs, contemporary and classical music, cultural programming, live events and more — with a depth, variety and caliber that they can’t get anywhere else. * measured by audience size Source: Arbitron, Inc.

To Apply:

Please apply through New York Public Radio’s online application portal www.wnyc.org/careers/listings/.

Submit cover letter with salary requirements and resume.

New York Public Radio must receive all information requested in order to consider your candidacy.

Qualified candidates only please. No calls, no agencies.

Due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to reply to every submission, and only candidates selected for interview will be contacted.

New York Public Radio is an Equal Opportunity Employer and invites and encourages qualified applicants from all walks of life.