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Leads ACPR’s federal government affairs and nonpartisan advocacy strategy. Builds congressional and federal agency relationships, manages lobbying disclosure compliance, tracks legislation and regulations, briefs leadership, and coordinates policy briefings, delegations, and advocacy days. Researches policymakers and hearings, develops advocacy materials, and supports public radio stations through appropriations and legislative engagement. The role requires extensive Capitol Hill networks, House experience, federal appropriations knowledge, bipartisan communication, and strong collaboration skills.

Leads NPR’s federal government affairs and policy strategy, monitoring legislation and regulations involving copyright, AI, telecommunications, privacy, and public media. Serves as a registered lobbyist, manages LDA compliance, builds relationships with Congress, federal agencies, associations, and industry stakeholders, and represents NPR before regulatory bodies including the FCC. Researches policymakers, briefs leadership, develops advocacy strategies, and partners on external policy communications.

Manages state grassroots advocacy campaigns supporting public radio stations. Coordinates advocacy plans, model legislation, policy materials, legislative monitoring, stakeholder relationships, advocacy visits, and communications across assigned states. Translates complex policy and budget issues into accessible briefings and talking points while collaborating with public radio stations, lawmakers, coalitions, and NPR teams.

Leads NPR’s executive talent strategy for journalists, hosts, commentators, and creative contributors. Responsibilities include talent relationship management, scouting and pipeline development, contract negotiation, career stewardship, cross-functional mediation, editorial and mission alignment, audience trend analysis, and diversity initiatives. The role partners with Content, People, Legal, Marketing, Operations, and member stations to attract and retain high-impact multimedia talent.

Leads NPR’s content strategy and business development, including negotiating distribution, co-production, licensing, syndication, and revenue-sharing partnerships. Expands enterprise distribution across digital, streaming, audio, and public media channels while protecting editorial independence. Oversees partner relationships, intellectual property, budgets, resource allocation, business operations, financial modeling, and divisional OKRs. Collaborates with executive, editorial, legal, finance, product, and station-relations teams to drive audience growth and sustainable revenue.

Leads architecture for unified native mobile and cross-platform systems, scalable personalization and media delivery pipelines, distributed services, APIs, and client applications. Guides multi-team technology strategy, governance, security, privacy compliance, cost optimization, deployments, incident response, and code quality. Mentors engineers, conducts reviews, evaluates technologies, and contributes resilient production code across iOS, Android, cloud, CDN, and data systems.

Lead end-to-end product design for NPR’s growth and conversion experiences across web, mobile, voice, CarPlay, and other platforms. Develop prototypes, design systems, research studies, and personalized user journeys that improve engagement, retention, and contributions. Collaborate with researchers, product managers, developers, and other partners to define product vision, translate business requirements into audience-focused goals, facilitate co-creation, and refine products through launch.

Manages NPR’s media relations and speaker queues, including inquiry vetting, approvals, scheduling, briefing materials, and executive appearance logistics. Develops social content for NPR Extra, coordinates messaging with internal teams, monitors media coverage, and produces PR analytics and reports. The role requires strong writing, editing, organization, judgment, stakeholder coordination, and the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced communications environment.

Creates, produces, shoots, directs, and edits branded video content supporting NPR’s communications, fundraising, recruitment, events, and strategic initiatives. Develops concepts, scripts, production plans, interviews, and visual styles; manages filming, editing, color correction, audio mixing, graphics, captions, licensing, and delivery. Coordinates multiple productions, freelancers, vendors, talent, equipment, schedules, and workflows while maintaining NPR’s brand standards and audience-focused storytelling.

Leads NPR’s corporate and executive communications strategy, including institutional messaging, executive speeches, media relations, stakeholder engagement, and communications for major organizational initiatives. Oversees announcement planning, proactive media outreach, sensitive issue response, and executive appearance preparation. Manages and coaches communications staff, coordinates cross-functional partners, maintains the corporate communications calendar, and ensures consistent messaging that strengthens NPR’s reputation and communicates its mission and impact.