We do not accept unsolicited resumes. They will not be reviewed or kept on file. We review all resumes for positions in which we are seeking candidates and keep them on file for at least one year.
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KPFA Assistant General Manager & Development Director
Legendary KPFA-FM was established in 1949 as the first listener supported radio station in the U.S. Located in Berkeley, California it is the flagship station of the Pacifica Network.
KPFA seeks to hire an Assistant General Manager & Development Director. Candidates will have demonstrated expertise in programming and fundraising as well as excellent project management and cooperative leadership skills
Responsibilities include day-to-day management of administration, oversight of programming, managing fundraising, and supervision of staff.
Desired Qualifications:
At least three years of management in public/community radio
At least five years of demonstrated experience in public radio fundraising, including on-air pledge drives and off-air fundraising methods
Great organizational and supervisory skills, as well as strong interpersonal and communications skills
An interest in and understanding of current political and cultural events
Radio vision and an ability to innovate how ideas and issues are presented on air
Demonstrated experience in radio production; alternative radio experience a plus
Ability to perform under pressure and juggle multiple projects
Commitment to the principles set forth in Pacifica's mission
Salary: Based on experience. Position open until Dec 18th, 2009
Please send a copy of your resume and letter of interest to: gm@kpfa.org
Or by mail to:
General Manager
KPFA Radio
1929 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
KPFA Radio is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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Letters to Washington Host
RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Host a diverse variety of segments for a daily one-hour public affairs radio program, including brainstorming ideas, guests, and approach
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Monitor local, state, national, and international news and relevant publications for program ideas
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Conceptualize and produce segments for the program on complex topics, as well as occasional series and in-depth debates.
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Prepare extensively for interviews and debates, including preparing scripts/intros, questions, and transitions
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Arrange and produce fund drive programming and pitch on-air during fund
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Editing and mixing of audio pieces using digital programs and equipment
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Participate in special events coverage as required
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Interface with the Program Director to set goals and action plans, including attending weekly editorial meetings
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Demonstrated experience in radio hosting; alternative radio experience a plus
Commitment to critical thinking and excellence in radio
Radio vision and ability to innovate how ideas and issues are presented
on air
Demonstrated interest and understanding of national news and current affairs
Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Ability to perform under pressure and juggle multiple projects
Demonstrated commitment to the Pacifica mission, including the importance of debate and dialogue on the air
This is a full-time Communication Workers of America (CWA) union position. Salary is $20.20/hour with generous benefits package
Send a cover letter, resume and demo CD of your work to:
General Manager
KPFA FM 94.1
1929 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
Email: gm@kpfa.org
KPFA Radio is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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The Pacifica Foundation (BERKELEY, California), the oldest network of non-commercial, community-based radio stations in the United States, is seeking to hire a new Executive Director.
The Executive Director is responsible for all day to day management activities of the Foundation including the hiring, firing and supervising of national office and managerial staff; implementing Board policy and by-laws; overseeing fundraising and development activities; supervising production and distribution of national programming; working with the Chief Financial Officer to maintain fiscal and physical integrity.
The ideal candidate will possess a college degree and/or at least 10 years experience of relevant radio broadcast experience, including non-profit management. Women and people of color are encouraged to apply.
Salary Range starting at $80K
Deadline for submission: 24 AUGUST 2009
For full job description please go to Pacifica.org
resume references and cover letter submission via internet to:
or hard copy mailed to:
Pacifica Foundation
Attn: Executive Director Search
1925 Martin Luther King Jr Way
Berkeley CA 94704
~The Pacifica Foundation IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Pacifica Foundation does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religious creed, national origin, Ethnicity, gender, age, marital status, disability, medical condition, or sexual orientation. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
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KPFA Radio seeks a Website Director to develop and maintain kpfa.org as well as plan initiatives to expand KPFA's new media broadcast presence.
Required skills
Solid HTML hand coding, and CSS
Experience with PHP and MySQL, and developing custom dynamic websites with PHP and MySQL
unix skills and comfort working at the unix command line
Experience with Perl, unix shell scripting, or other programming languages
Experience with XML integration and RSS feeds
Experience with TCP/IP network administration
Experience developing online communities
Experience with linux or BSD's
Preferred skills:
Experience with Python
Experience with VoIP, SIP and other audio streaming protocols
Experience with print layout
Experience creating email newsletters
Radio production or sound editing experience
Experience with photo editing and graphic design
Please submit your resume and letter of interest to: jobs@kpfa.org
Position open until filled
KPFA/Pacific Radio is an equal opportunity employer
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Pacifica Chief Financial Officer
The Pacifica Foundation (BERKELEY, California), the oldest network of non-commercial, community-based radio stations in the United States, is seeking to hire a new Chief Financial Officer.
The Chief Financial Officer is responsible for all aspects of Pacifica Foundation accounting, income and disbursement of funds and reporting current financial status on a monthly basis to Executive Director and Pacifica National Board; implementing Board policy and by-laws where they pertain to finances; preparing annual budget; manage banking relationships, investments accounts and Foundation assets; working with and training business managers from each respective signal area; working under the supervision of the Executive Director and Pacifica National Board to maintain financial integrity.
The ideal candidate will possess a college degree in accounting and hold CPA Certification; have at least 10 years experience in accounting including accounting specific to non-profit California corporations and have demonstrated familiarity with all stages of SEC reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley, all GASB/FASB regulations and CPB reporting requirements. Women and people of color are encouraged to apply.
Salary Range starting at $70K
Deadline for submission: 20 MAY 2009
For full job description please go to Pacifica.org
resume/cover letter submission via internet to: resume@pacifica.org
or hard copy mailed to:
Pacifica Foundation
Attn: Chief Financial Officer Search
1925 Martin Luther King Jr Way
Berkeley CA 94704
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Pacifica Human Resources Director
The Pacifica Foundation (BERKELEY, California), the oldest network of non-commercial, community-based radio stations in the United States, is seeking to hire a new Human Resources Director.
The Human Resources Director is responsible for developing and organizing all human resources activities of the Foundation, including but not limited to, employment compensation, benefits, training and equal opportunities. HR Director will working under the supervision of the Executive Director and with the General Managers throughout the network to maintain compliance with all EEOC regulations/training relating to California corporations non-profit employment.
The ideal candidate will possess a college degree in Human Resources Management and a minimum 3 years experience preferably in non-profit management. Women and people of color are encouraged to apply.
Salary Range starting at $60K
Deadline for submission: 20 MAY 2009
For full job description please go to Pacifica.org
Resume/cover letter submission via internet to: resume@pacifica.org
or hard copy mailed to:
Pacifica Foundation
Attn: Human Resources Director Search
1925 Martin Luther King Jr Way
Berkeley CA 94704
~The Pacifica Foundation IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Pacifica Foundation does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religious creed, national origin, Ethnicity, gender, age, marital status, disability, medical condition, or sexual orientation. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
KPFA Pacifica Radio is an EOE/AA Employer
View our 2007 EEO Report (21kb, pdf).
For internship opportunites at KPFA Radio see our Internship Page.
For additional job listings, please see the websites of the other 4 individual Pacifica stations:
From the Pacifica National Board:
Revised Request for Proposal Letter for Election Management Services (8 JAN 2008)
To: ELECTION SERVICES provider
Gentlepersons:
Our organization, Pacifica Foundation, is accepting proposals from election management providers to provide election services for our organization, subject to the provisions of Article 4 of the Foundation bylaws, available at http://www.pacificafoundation.org/pnb/index.php?option=com_content&task=..., as amended in 2007 (See Appendix I attached). We invite your organization to submit a pro
posal to us by January 31, 2009, for our consideration. Your organization is free to make a proposal only for items 1 and 2, or alternatively for items 3 through 17, or both, if you so desire.
Background of the Pacifica Foundation
Pacifica Foundation is a 501(c)(3) radio broadcasting organization with five member stations in New York, Houston, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, and Berkeley, California. We employ 179 full-time staff and each station also utilizes an average of 200 unpaid staff. We are a membership-based organization and our five stations have approximately 95,000 members nationwide. In September, 2009, members in each of the five signal areas will elect nine (9) delegates to sit on their local station boards (LSBs). The returns of candidate choices by Listener-members nearly always exceed the quorum of 10%.
All our elections are by single transferable vote (STV) and your software must be capable of handling STV ballots involving up to 50 candidates. All of Pacifica's elections to date have used Choice Plus Pro ("CP Pro") as the tally software. The software and documentation can be downloaded without charge from the Choice Plus website, <http://www.votingsolutions.com/>. (If you intend to use some other software, such software must be capable of registering multiple candidates for the first preference, second preference, etc. We will p
rovide you with some test balloting in order to assure ourselves that your software produces the same results as those obtained using CP Pro.) Although not official policy, some directors would like to see transition from exclusively paper ballots to primarily electronic voting, perhaps in as short as three (3) election cycles beginning September, 2009.
IMPORTANT: The Pacifica Bylaws at Article Fifteen "Voting Methods" (attached hereto) specify that last-place ties be broken by lot (e.g. coin toss). The CP Pro default is to look at the previous round (or rounds) and eliminate the candidate with the lowest vote count. In order to make CP Pro operate in conformity with Pacifica's Bylaws, a line must be added to the CP Pro "configuration" (.in) file that reads as follows: .TIES BY-HUMAN RANDOM This will bring up a screen allowing the operator to break the tie, either via a randomized choice or by provision of a specific value. The program can also flip a coin internally, but the outcome cannot be forced for comparisons.
Services to be performed
Your proposal will need to provide the following services:
1…Appoint and supervise a National Election Supervisor ("NES") and appoint, supervise and pay a Local Election Supervisor ("LES") at each of five station signal areas: Berkeley, CA, Los Angeles, CA, New York, NY, Washington D.C., Houston, TX.
The National Election Supervisor and Local Election Supervisors shall carry out all responsibilities assigned to those positions by the Pacifica Bylaws. For example, the NES shall supervise the nomination process and certify the "fairness" of the election, and each Local Election Supervisor will verify and certify eligibility for candidates in two categories (Listener-sponsor or Staff) for the five signal areas. Each LES shall also assemble a pamphlet with statements from all verified candidates for that local station board.
2. Coordinate and supervise candidate forums both for live broadcast and at in-person community events with the assistance of local station personnel. Monitor and enforce fair campaign provisions, including processing complaints of violations.
3. Design (subject to Foundation review), print, and mail paper ballots, simple voting instructions, candidate statement pamphlets, and a fundraising appeal.
4. Prepare detailed election webpages for all 5 stations.
[The Foundation may transition to electronic balloting within the next one or two election cycles. Your ability to advise the Foundation on how to implement such a transition may improve your chances for selection. Responsibilities that would flow from such a transition=2
0are specified in italics below.]
5. Devise and post optional web-based balloting for the ten (10) different elections. Permit the voter to go to one of ten (10) different web pages and open the one page in which they are eligible to vote as evidenced by entering a valid ID number. The ID numbers should be randomized within ten distinct, non-overlapping pools of alpha-numeric identifiers. These numbers identify eligible voters for each election (who have not previously voted in the current election cycle), so some constantly updated data base of ID numbers must be maintained during the active election period (for use with paper ballots also).
6. Mail replacement ballots (approximately 5% of original mailing) as necessary.
7. Post on the Pacifica web site an interactive voting page with instructions so voters can enter their valid ID numbers to access one of the ten (10) different electronic ballots tp cast their votes electronically.
8. Convert the accepted electronic ballot to a line in a text ballot file for input into the tally program. (If your selection for a tally program is not CP Pro and your ballot file format cannot be tallied by CP Pro, a separate and clearly named and identified ballot (.blt) text file in a format that CP Pro can tally must be created and provided to 0D
Pacifica.)
9. Integrate ballot files derived from paper ballots with files created by on-line voting. [We prefer that you demonstrate the ability to integrate ballots prior to bid acceptance. We will consider your proposal for a date-certain for demonstrating integration software. NB: CP Pro will tally multiple ballot text files as long as they are in the correct format and each one is listed in the configuration (.in) file via a .INCLUDE line.]
10. Create and save all the ballot files (separately grouped for the ten elections) that will be tallied. If these files are not in CP Pro format, create and save for distribution to Pacifica, equivalent text files in CP Pro format, with distinct and clearly identified filenames to facilitate spot checks and for quality control verification.
11. Prevent ballot stuffing; verify valid ballots.
12. Verify that quorum (10% of Listener-member rolls) has been achieved at each region by appropriate deadline(s).
13. Perform ten (10) accurate STV tallies with observers for a total of ten elections (2 per region). The observers will be selected by station management and/or the local station boards (LSBs).
14. Scan the validated paper ballots, converting each one into a ballot image file (usually a .tif file).
Then, using commercial or your own software, convert each image file into whatever form your tally program requires. If you are not using CP Pro as a tally program, each image file must be converted into one line in distinctly-named CP Pro text ballot (.blt) file to facilitate verification by Pacifica tech support volunteers.
15. Copy ballot files to appropriate folders to be referenced individually by filename in the tally software configuration file (e.g. CP Pro's .in file).
16. Distribute CD-R disks with images, derived ballot and configuration (.in) files, and round-by-round results to the five LESs, General Managers, and chairs of the Local Station Boards.
17. Certify the election results.
Key Personnel
The key contacts for information you may seek in preparing your proposal are:
Ms. Sherry Gendelman, Acting Executive Director, sherrygendelman@aol.com
Mr. Bob Lederer, Chair of PNB Election Committee, bob@healthaction.info
Your Response to This Request for Proposal
In responding to this request, we request the following:
1. Detail your company's experience in providing election services to companies in the not-for-profit sector, a
s well as associations of a size comparable to Pacifica's.
2. Provide information regarding services you have provided, if any, involving Proportional Representation voting systems, and Single Transferable Vote method in particular.
3. Disclose any affiliation or potential conflict of interest with former or current Pacifica Foundation members of the Board of Directors, employees, contractors, or consultants, and any other potential conflict of interest.
4. Identify the partner or manager who will be assigned to the job if you are successful in your bid, and provide biographies. Indicate any complaints against them that have been leveled any governmental or private regulatory authority. Indicate any corrective actions that have been taken by the company with respect to these persons.
5. Describe the staffing structure that you propose to interact with the Foundation in administering this contract.
6. Describe how your company will approach the 2009 delegates election, including the use of any proprietary or third party software, any hardware such as scanning devices, computer equipment. Also any proposed utilization of mailing houses, printing establishments or any such third party vendor.
7. Set forth your budget and fee proposal for the 2009 election, with whatever information=2
0can be given regarding increases in future years.
8. Identify the 5 largest clients of your company and provide contact information for clients for reference purposes.
9. If affiliated with any public or private election oversight or advocacy associations, please provide information describing the nature and time duration of such affiliation.
Evaluation of Proposals
Pacifica Foundation's Elections Committee will evaluate proposals on a qualitative basis. This includes a review of references and related materials, interviews with senior engagement personnel to be assigned to our organization, results of discussions with other clients, and the firm's completeness and timeliness in its response to us.
Please submit your response to this request for proposal by January 31, 2009. We would also appreciate a response if you decline to submit a proposal.
Sincerely,
Yosh Yamanaka
Secretary of the PNB Elections Committee
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APPENDIX I (Bylaw amendments adopted in 2007, i.e. Article 3, section 10 and Article 4, sections 4A and 5, are available at http://kewg.org in html and pdf format.)
