Jobs at WHYY

Promotes WHYY through direct community engagement, distributes promotional materials, educates the public about memberships and programming, encourages event attendance and participation, and gathers feedback. Serves as a first point of contact for community members, answers questions, shares organizational information, and supports outreach initiatives across various locations.

Supports fundraising operations through donation, pledge, recurring gift, matching gift, and event revenue processing. Maintains the Revolution CRM, manages data imports and exports, performs constituent record updates, resolves exceptions, and conducts data cleanup and deduplication. Provides additional fundraising systems and operations support during busy pledge drive and year-end periods.

Produces and coordinates integrated FM membership and fundraising campaigns across radio, television, and digital platforms. Develops campaign strategies, roadmaps, messaging, scripts, live and prerecorded content, talent plans, and production logistics. Coordinates cross-functional teams, technical crews, community partners, sponsors, and digital extensions. Monitors campaign performance, makes real-time adjustments, and conducts post-campaign analysis to improve future drives. Requires flexibility for early mornings, evenings, and weekends during campaigns.

Manages corporate sponsorship operations across broadcast, television, podcast, web, and digital platforms. Responsibilities include contract and campaign scheduling, spot production and verification, sponsorship inventory management, revenue and budget reporting, invoicing, collections, commission reporting, FCC copy compliance, and sales support. The role also handles sponsorship leads, audience inquiries, payments, cross-department coordination, and system backup training.

Creates, curates, updates, and distributes digital content across WHYY.org, media platforms, podcasts, apps, and third-party channels such as YouTube. Responsibilities include homepage management, audio and video file metadata updates, episode content maintenance, ancillary digital property updates, and digital content curation. The role collaborates with content production and digital news teams and requires strong writing, editing, proofreading, computer, and technology skills.

Develops and executes multichannel digital membership, fundraising, stewardship, and audience engagement communications. Responsibilities include writing, editing, segmenting, testing, deploying, and reporting on email, SMS, newsletters, automated journeys, websites, apps, and social campaigns. Supports the full supporter lifecycle, uses performance data to improve engagement and retention, coordinates with cross-functional teams, maintains campaign quality and documentation, and recommends practical applications of emerging digital fundraising, automation, and AI practices.

Supports WPSU membership and annual giving campaigns across direct mail, email, digital, and on-air channels. Processes gifts, maintains donor records, provides member service, coordinates acknowledgments and benefits, supports donor stewardship, generates reports, tracks campaign performance, and assists with fundraising drives and events. The role also helps improve membership processes, donor retention, and the overall supporter experience while maintaining donor confidentiality.

Manages a portfolio of major gift donors and prospects through identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship. Develops personalized engagement and fundraising strategies, conducts donor meetings, prepares proposals, maintains CRM records, tracks fundraising results, collaborates with leadership and development teams, and represents WPSU at donor and community events while following ethical fundraising practices.

Develops and manages business, nonprofit, and community underwriting relationships to generate sponsorship revenue. Responsibilities include prospecting, client meetings, proposal and package development, negotiating agreements, renewals, account stewardship, and coordinating fulfillment across broadcast, digital, television, and events. The role also tracks pipeline and revenue activity in CRM systems, supports FCC-compliant underwriting copy, prepares reports, and represents the station at community and networking events.

Manage a portfolio of ~150 donors to qualify, cultivate, solicit, and steward major gifts ($5,000+). Create individualized engagement plans, develop donor proposals with colleagues, track interactions in CRM, produce monthly reports, attend events and community engagements, and support fundraising strategies and special projects.

Develops and executes integrated marketing campaigns promoting WPSU programming, services, events, fundraising, and community impact. Creates content for email, websites, social media, digital advertising, print, and presentations; manages social channels and email campaigns; coordinates creative assets and campaign timelines; maintains brand standards; analyzes performance; conducts audience research; and supports outreach to new and underserved audiences.

Produce, write, edit and publish timely multimedia news content for web, radio and social platforms. Optimize stories for audience engagement, manage feeds and app alerts, create audio/video/photo/text packages on tight deadlines, support newsletters and partner sharing, and work nights/weekends as newsroom scheduling requires.

Lead and supervise reporters and editors to produce daily and breaking news across audio, video and digital platforms. Assign and edit stories, fact-check, plan special coverage, train staff, conduct performance reviews, coordinate cross-team content, and be available for nights and weekends as needed.

Report on Pennsylvania education in Philadelphia and surrounding counties, producing 2–3 digital and audio stories weekly. Research, cultivate sources, pitch ideas, file breaking news and features, learn/produce audio, take photos/videos, and promote work on social media while meeting deadlines.

Lead engineering and technical operations across TV, radio, streaming and digital distribution. Ensure broadcast reliability, manage transmission facilities, master control and live production support. Direct engineering staff, staffing decisions, budgets, capital projects, vendor relationships, regulatory compliance (FCC/EAS), disaster recovery, and technology strategy emphasizing IP workflows, cloud, ATSC 3.0 and emerging media platforms.