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Folk Alley Producer
Position number 990173

Duties and Responsibilities:

Folk Alley Is Hiring!

Folk Alley offers live-streaming music over the internet 24/7 to a worldwide listening audience, interactive web content and more via folkalley.com. Folk Alley is seeking a producer; a multi-talented, adventurous folk-music aficionado to join our team. The Folk Alley signature audio stream is produced by WKSU–FM, an NPR affiliate in Kent, Ohio on the campus of Kent State University. Folk music has played an important role in WKSU’s broadcast history, thanks in part to Kent, Ohio and our long standing connection with the folk community, including hosting the Kent State Folk Festival for over 4 decades.

Folk Alley seeks an energetic individual to work full-time and collaboratively with our team to produce content for our signature stream, manage and maintain our music resources and generate content for our public online folk music offerings.

  • Production of live and/or recorded audio & video content, such as fund raising, promotions, and in-studio performance sessions

  • Production of live concerts and special arts features

  • Working with standard broadcast software tools to build and schedule playlists for a 24/7 global music service

  • Traveling with our production team in the Folk Alley RV / Mobile Studio to North American folk festivals and special folk music events

  • Supervision of students employees and interns

  • Provide functional guidance for support staff and other employees working on Folk Alley projects or temporary assignments

Education and Experience:

Bachelor's degree in communications or relevant field, or one year of additional experience may be substituted for each year of the education requirement; two or three year's radio or video broadcasting experience.

Knowledge of broadcast production techniques and FCC regulations; radio and video production styles and techniques and software packages related to production.

Experience (recommended) with Music Master or similar scheduling software, Adobe Audition or similar, ENCO or similar automation, Final Cut Pro X / Adobe Premiere and industry standard digital audio & video capture hardware.

Other:

Position is based in Kent, OH at WKSU 89.7 FM, a service of Kent State University

To Apply:

For a complete description of this position and to apply online, CLICK HERE to visit our jobsite at jobs.kent.edu. [position # 990173]

All documents submitted to Kent State University for employment opportunities are public records and subject to disclosure under the Ohio Public Records Law.
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