Sponsorship Representative

Date Submitted: October 6, 2026
Job Title: Sponsorship Representative
Station: DANCE 89.5
Location: Seattle, WA
Final date to receive applications: 10/23/26
Salary Range: $60,000 + 10%+ monthly commission + potential bonuses

Job Description:

DANCE 89.5 is looking for an outgoing, self-motivated sales professional to help grow the station through sponsor ships and underwriting. This role focuses on building relationships with local businesses, nonprofits, agencies, and community partners who want to support public radio and youth empowerment while reaching one of the Pacific Northwest’s most engaged audiences.

You’ll manage your own portfolio of accounts, develop new business, create sponsorship proposals, and help clients build campaigns across radio, digital, podcasts, events, and more.

If you enjoy meeting people, building partnerships, and helping organizations make an impact in the community, we’d love to hear from you.

• Build relationships with new and existing sponsors.
• Prospect, pitch, and close new underwriting and sponsorship opportunities.
• Create sponsorship packages that include on-air, digital, podcast, and event opportunities.
• Manage campaigns from proposal through completion.
• Write FCC-compliant underwriting copy and coordinate campaign scheduling.
• Keep accurate records, forecasts, and client activity in our CRM.
• Represent DANCE 89.5 at community events and networking opportunities.
• Work with station staff to develop new sponsorship ideas and partnerships.

• Experience in sales, fundraising, business development, media, or account management.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Comfortable meeting new people and asking for business.
• Organized, dependable, and able to manage multiple projects at once.
• Able to work independently while contributing to a collaborative team.
• Experience with public radio, nonprofits, sponsor ships, or media sales is a plus.

DANCE 89.5 is a listener-supported public radio station serving the Puget Sound within Seattle Public Schools since 1971. Every sponsorship helps support student broadcasting, hands-on career training, and the music and community programming our audience engage with every day. We believe great partnerships create value for everyone involved – our listeners, our students, and the organizations that support our mission.