Jobs at Lehigh Valley Public Media

Leads audience growth and integrated marketing strategy for a public media organization. Defines priority audiences, builds campaigns across broadcast, email, web, social, paid media, partnerships, events, and membership, and uses data to improve acquisition, engagement, and retention. Serves as a strategic partner across content, product, development, and community engagement; manages agencies and freelancers; and stewards brand voice, messaging, and consistency.

Leads fundraising strategy, major gifts, corporate partnerships, sponsorships, membership growth, and donor engagement for a public media organization. Builds relationships with donors, foundations, businesses, and community leaders; partners with executives and the board; manages development operations, CRM systems, reporting, KPIs, and pipelines; and develops a high-performing fundraising team.

Leads daily editorial operations, including assignments, deadlines, content calendars, pitch approvals, editing, platform distribution, and newsletter production. Directly manages multimedia journalists, provides coaching and feedback, maintains editorial standards, and coordinates cross-team content workflows. The role also tracks coverage, newsletter performance, and tentpole programs while ensuring timely, accurate publication across digital, newsletter, audio, social, and live formats.

Report and produce original bilingual (English/Spanish) content across text, audio, video, newsletter, and social platforms. Build diverse community sources, cover Latino and immigrant communities within Lehigh Valley across housing, healthcare, education, economy, and civic life, and represent the outlet at events. Shoot and edit photos, video, and audio; adapt stories across formats and collaborate on engagement and outreach.

Lead community engagement efforts by recruiting and managing volunteer correspondents, editing community-created content, maintaining the community database, overseeing education programs, coordinating outreach and events, building relationships with underrepresented groups, and connecting community voices to editorial planning.

Own the Education & Opportunity beat covering schools, workforce development, career pathways, and childcare. Produce original stories across digital, audio, video, newsletter, and social platforms; build diverse source networks; capture field photos/video and social-native clips; attend community events and meetings; contribute to newsletters; meet editorial standards and deadlines. Role requires local engagement and passing required background and child-clearance checks.