Employment Opportunities

The Account Executive will work with businesses and non-profits on statewide and regional sales and build relationship with stations across the state to work together on statewide opportunities. This position will use a consultative sales approach for selling sponsorship of radio, television, and digital sponsorships. Keys to success will include direct client business and building relationships with statewide and regional public media sponsorship teams to present statewide opportunities. The applicant should have an ability to build strong relationships and clearly communicate the mission of public media.

This position will produce daily journalism that focuses on the many ways policy affects people across the state and responds directly to community questions and needs. Working in a fast-paced environment, this position enjoys the variety provided by quick-turn daily reporting and grows with support, training opportunities and a mission to produce community-focused statewide journalism. The employee in this role will discover, explore and tell stories that are both urgent and thoughtful and may include covering a news conference one day and filing an explainer in response to audience questions on another issue the next. Work closely with a team of five beat reporters (education, health, energy/environment, workforce, state politics) and with the full support of a videographer, digital editor, engagement manager and managing editor.

This position leads statewide daily news planning, coordination, and editing. The IPB Daily News Editor edits a team of beat reporters based across Indiana and serving communities through a dozen NPR and PBS partner stations. This role coaches and supports reporters while building relationships with communities across Indiana. This position sets the daily news budget. The editor will work with five reporters to help identify and prioritize short-term stories on their beat, shape ongoing coverage, and edit daily broadcast spots on tight deadlines. This is a grant funded role.

This position serves a wide variety of stakeholders. Assignments include a wide range of constantly evolving activities and projects. Specialized skills, including but not limited to technical and organizational skills are important as this position is a key contributor to the coordination, maintenance, and delivery of timely, accurate and consistent financial reporting.

This position identifies, cultivates, and secures new major, planned, and capital gifts for WFYI. This position also leads the engagement and stewardship of a donor portfolio in giving.

A broad role that includes hands on handling and managing of benefits, compensation, budgeting, regulatory compliance, and Indiana Workforce Development and EEOC related activities. This role is also responsible for managing benefit plans including health insurance, life insurance, dental, vision, 401(k) plans, and other programs such as employee assistance programs and tuition reimbursement. Works closely with the Finance and Accounting team ensuring payroll and human resource systems are timely reconciled, insurance billings are reconciled etc.

This position connects the station’s content and partner opportunities to existing and emergent audiences through a range of in-person engagement, digital outreach, and content. The Engagement Marketing Specialist shares compelling, on-brand, and engaging multi-media content through events, social media, email marketing, and downloadable materials. This position manages WFYI’s work in partnership with the Economic Club of Indiana, including event logistics, promotion and engagement.

The Corporate Support Executive will work with our team of fundraising professionals to solicit financial support from businesses and organizations in the form of underwriting and sponsorship as well as through video production services. 

PBS Fort Wayne, providing high quality telecommunications services which enhance the quality of life in the communities we serve through educational, informational, cultural and entertaining programs and services, seeks a Sales Professional. Reporting to the Corporate Development Manager, the ideal candidate for this position must have a passion to work in the media industry and be exposed to PBS Fort Wayne production, programming, fundraising and sales development and protocol.

The Member Services Coordinator (Stewardship Coordinator) ensures accurate recording of donation information used for fundraising reporting and donor communications, and serves as a frontline customer service representative to WTIU and WFIU members, viewers and listeners—creating a positive experience through every interaction to deepen member relations.