Director of WUOT 91.9 FM - College of Communication & Information - UTK

• Ensure strategic focus for the organization, including fostering a collaborative nature of WUOT.

• Identify and implement initiatives to deliver help the goals and mission of WUOT.

• Identify pathways for serving, growing, and diversifying audiences of WUOT, in collaboration with staff and senior leadership across the College.

• Foster strategic partnerships that enhance the organization's reach, revenues, capacity, and impact, serving as an effective leader, ambassador, and collaborator.

• Bring a forward-looking, entrepreneurial approach, identifying key opportunities that will ensure WUOT's ongoing service, success, and relevance.

• Ensure resources are ethically, efficiently, and responsibly deployed.

• Work with WUTK in areas of FCC compliance, technical operations and guidance.

• Develop and implement plans and budgets to achieve WUOT's revenue goals.

• Meet annual financial targets.

• Ensure long-term financial health of WUOT.

• Serve as the organization's chief fundraiser by cultivating and stewarding donors, attending fundraising functions, and soliciting major gifts for the organization's current and future needs.

• Ensure resources are ethically, efficiently, and responsibly deployed.

• Provide leadership for all operational and administrative aspects of running WUOT.

• Manage a $2M+ budget in compliance with university policy and college-specific guidance set forth by the CCI Office of Finance, Administration, and Operations.

• Manage a team of 15 full-time staff with approximately 6 direct reports.

• Recruit, develop, and retain a highly talented team at all levels - staff and students.

• Motivate, engage, mentor, and coach staff and students.

• Provide pathways for professional development and staff success.

• Foster community collaborations to enhance reach of WUOT.

• Be an effective spokesperson for WUOT, including community members, civic and business leaders, foundations, and professional associations.

• Successfully represent the organization in the external community.

• Build relationships with community partners and directly engage with the station's community advisory board.

• Tell the story of WUOT and the College of Communication and Information's partnership in a sincere and captivating way to generate the public's interest, support, and excitement.

• Navigate the changing media landscape with a clear vision and innovative ideas to help the organization balance the delivery of news and media to a diverse and growing audience.

Required Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in business, public administration, communications, journalism, or related area

• Experience: Minimum of five years of experience as a senior level manager in a similar organization. Public broadcasting experience required.

• Knowledge, Skills, Abilities: 

  • Leadership skills, administrative abilities, including the management of people from diverse backgrounds and disciplines.

  • Knowledge of public broadcasting, audience research, and best practices in public radio

  • Superior written, verbal, and digital communication skills

     

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without need now or in the future for sponsorship for employment-based visa status.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience: Higher education teaching experience

Work Location 

• Location: Knoxville, Tennessee

• Onsite

Compensation and Benefits 

• UT market range: MR15

• Anticipated hiring range: $120,000 to 130,000

• Find more information on the UT Market Range structure here

• Find more information on UT Benefits here

Application Instructions 

To express interest, please submit an application with the noted below attachments:

• Resume

• Cover Letter

To be assured of full consideration, completed applications with all requested materials should be submitted on or before June 26, 2026.

About The College/Department/Division

Listener-supported WUOT 91.9 FM is licensed to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Qualified by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, WUOT is a member of NPR and an affiliate of the Public Radio Exchange and American Public Media. The station’s primary format is news, classical and jazz music.

WUOT serves listeners throughout East Tennessee and parts of Kentucky, North Carolina, Georgia and Virginia. The station broadcasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and streams on the web at wuot.org. WUOT’s second audio channel, WUOT-2, is available on HD Radio™, Internet radio and on the web.