General Manager – Pensacola FL | Full Time
Division/Department: Affiliate Stations
Location: Pensacola Florida
Job Title: General Manager – Pensacola FL
Wages: $50,000/year
Full Time at about 40 hours a week
Location: Pensacola Florida
Job Title: General Manager – Pensacola FL
Wages: $50,000/year
Full Time at about 40 hours a week
Affiliate Stations is looking for a Full Time General Manager – Pensacola FL worker.
Primary Purpose:
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The primary responsibility of the General Manager is to oversee the day to day duties of the station; generate income through donations, airtime sales, and production to fund the work of their local station; build relationships with churches/ministries as well as city officials, and to always be looking for ways to increase the viewership of the station through traditional television as well as on line/social media avenues. Everything that is done needs to point to winning souls, discipling and operating within high standards of integrity and best business practices.
Required Education and Experience
Education Requirements:
Minimum: Bachelor’s Degree
Preferred: Diploma or degree in Broadcasting or Media Production from a college or trade school, or equivalent experience and one years working in a television station or television production environment.
Work Experience Requirement:
– Excellent communication skills both oral and written.
– Strong PC/MS office experience
– Ability to meet deadlines, prioritize assignments and handle multi-tasks simultaneously.
– Work well within a team environment and independently with minimal supervision.
– Exhibit a professional attitude at all times and be able to perform in a high-pressure environment
– Comfortable working and connecting with clients, pastors and/or non-profit representatives.
OTHER:
– Be able to lead a team and communicate effectively the goals, needs and instructions for clear direction.
– Must be a born again Christian and attend a Bible believing church.
– Must be able to lift a studio camera or light. (Up to 35 lbs)
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
1. An excellent working knowledge of CTN. This includes the history of the network, as well as knowledge of programmers and company procedures.
2. Investigate local churches, ministries and non-profits and make phone calls, send out letters/postcards, and send emails to build a relationship with the local community. The INITIAL focus of these connections is to let them know we are in the community and are here to support them and NOT to get them on 1V at first.
3. Attend pastor’s prayer groups, breakfasts’, Christian business meetings to make connections and learn the needs of the community. Always be looking for ways that your local station can participate in meeting the needs of your community.
4. Raising funds to support your station. This can be from airtime sales, production, or donations made to the station. Creating spots to play on air and online to promote the station and vision of CTN consistently through the year is important as well as regular online promotion to build a relationship with your audience.
5. Building viewership for the station through promotional tables at churches or events, media trades with other media outlets (ex. Christian radio) and a targeted social media plan.
6. Have a general knowledge of your Master Control room, cameras, studio equipment, studio control, etc. so you can properly direct your team members in their jobs and responsibilities as well as help with troubleshooting when things break. This will also help with communication to engineers, corporate IT and Master Control support staff.
7. Building your local mailing list/email list/social media connections and then at least quarterly giving testimonies and sharing vision for your station with those lists.
8. Finding volunteers to help at your station. These people can be found through the churches/pastors that you connect with and a great way for people to feel like they have buy-in at your station and for you to get things done.
9. Build and maintain relationships with your local programmers.
10. Oversee that your website stays fresh and accurate.
11. Always be looking for ways to increase cable, satellite and online coverage within your market area.
12. Filing quarterly and certain yearly FCC reports for your station.
13. Fulfilling or overseeing certain administrative duties such as: approving time cards for your staff, performing employee evaluations, manager’s reports, expense reports, keeping media kits up to date, reviewing monthly airtime discrepancy reports to make sure they are accurate, fill out contract requests for new and renewing programmers, production agreements, reviewing monthly financial reports to make sure things are accurate and know where you are in your financial business dealings, etc.
14. Oversee that your programming stays accurate and is airing what will connect with your viewers. Oversee that your promo’s are rotated appropriately, airing accurate information, stay fresh and that you are airing promos for your programmers.
15. Research creative ideas for television as well as online programming. The key is to understand and know your audience and think of creative ways to present the gospel to all viewers of CTN.
16. Building your staff. This will include regular staff meetings and a devotion time with your team. This may also include team building activities.
17. At times, you may be needed for moving set pieces in the studio as well as directing, floor directing, or running teleprompter for programs. It is good to be a part of studio shoots occasionally for team unity and so you can know what happens during a shoot.