Executive General Manager

Job Summary

PBS Wisconsin and Wisconsin Public Radio seek an exceptional, visionary leader for a new Executive General Manager (EGM) position. The EGM will help lead Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR) and PBS Wisconsin, two of our nation’s most respected public media brands, through a period of significant transformation into an even more successful future.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Develops the unit's budget for licensee review and approval, driving strategic investment in facilities, personnel, projects, and new initiatives

• Drives strategic planning, aligns operational priorities with strategic vision, evaluates programs against the unit mission, vision, and values, and builds a sustainable and relevant unit and service

• Serves as a liaison to internal and external stakeholder groups representing interests of the unit and fostering community and educational partnerships

• Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees

• Collaborates with leadership on content delivery, public safety, and emergency alert systems for the state's communication infrastructure

• Ensures compliance with broadcast/digital standards, institutional policies, and relevant federal and state laws and regulations including broadcasting rules and regulations

• Communicates and sustains editorial guidelines and protects the unit's reputation, sustains editorial integrity and editorial independence, advances plans to enhance the unit's public profile and community support

• Supports revenue goals and drives revenue generation across platforms, including priority development activities, solicits support, and stewards relationships with high impact funders, supports advocacy efforts, collaborates with donation and gifts board on budgeting, compliance, strategic investments, advocacy and community engagement

Required Qualifications

• Executive Leadership: Experience leading in a complex media enterprise, preferably a public media organization.

• Media Savvy: Deep understanding of audience trends, technology, regulatory compliance, and public media structures.

• Resource Management: Experience developing and working within budgets, managing human, financial and other resources thoughtfully.

• Change Management: Experience successfully leading teams through significant change.

• Strategic Vision: Experience building high level strategic vision and aligning decision making across the organization to best serve audiences.

• Operational Excellence: Experience aligning systems, workflows and talent across a complex media organization.

• Stakeholder Diplomacy: Comfort working across dual-reporting lines, with boards and within university and state governance structures.

• Philanthropic Disposition: Proven success representing the philanthropic needs of an organization and stewarding donors.

Compensation

The minimum salary for this position is $205,000. Actual pay will depend on experience and qualifications. This position offers a comprehensive benefits package, including generous paid time off, competitively priced health/dental/vision/life insurance, tax-advantaged savings accounts, and participation in the nationally recognized Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS) pension fund.