Director of Partnerships & Projects (WNXP)

Location: Nashville, TN 37228 • Employment Type: Full time • Posted: 09.18.2026

About the role

WNXP, a part of Nashville Public Radio, seeks a Director of Partnerships & Projects to bring structure and project management to how WNXP's team plans, coordinates, and delivers its work. This role is highly active in the community, maintaining and developing key partnerships, building WNXP's own unique events, and working with programming and digital teams on coordinated campaigns. Internally, this role creates and oversees the promotional process that combines on-air and online efforts into consistent spotlights for WNXP's programming, digital content, and events. It also serves as a critical cross-department representative, helping align membership, sponsorship, and audience efforts to meet WNXP's mission. WNXP is Nashville's home for music discovery. We are local, listener-powered, and driven to help Music City live up to its name. From public radio broadcasts to live events to award-winning music journalism, we put the variety of Nashville’s music scene front and center every day.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate internal team processes and projects, such as maintaining shared trackers and calendars for events and promotions, running recurring cross-department check-ins with programming and digital, and documenting workflows for repeatable initiatives like Live Sessions scheduling and on-air/online giveaways.
• Serve as primary project manager for events and promotions, communicating across departments and building project teams of full-time and part-time staff.
• Maintain, identify, and develop new event opportunities and promotional partnership opportunities in the community.
• Communicate across departments to identify opportunities for event sponsorship, revenue, and member benefits.
• Coordinate concert "Presents" pitches with programming and underwriting.
• Coordinate on-air and online giveaways with promotional partners and internal staff.
• Develop and project-manage promotions plans with programming and production.
• Manage the production team for Live Sessions in Sonic Cathedral and offsite, averaging 50 sessions a year.
• Collaborate with development, sponsorships, and the Nashville Public Radio events team.

Requirements

• 4+ years of hands-on, consumer-facing event planning, ideally with success in generating funding
• Demonstrated hands-on history of coordinating all aspects of event planning such as production/staging, A/V, food & beverage, registration & ticketing, design & decor, speaker/talent management, stage management/ROS, on-site staffing & volunteers management
• Experience with sponsor relations and fulfillment is a plus
• Detail-oriented, sees the big picture and how individual smaller elements