President & CEO
Listed on 2026-09-12
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President & Chief Executive Officer Independent Television Service (ITVS) Location San Francisco, CA | Hybrid Compensation ITVS anticipates a base salary of approximately $275,000, plus an annual performance incentive with a target opportunity of up to 20% of base salary, tied to achieving mutually agreed-upon organizational goals, with particular emphasis on fundraising and resource development. Lead the next chapter of independent storytelling.
The Independent Television Service (ITVS) seeks an accomplished, visionary, and deeply collaborative President & CEO to lead one of the country’s most influential organizations supporting independent documentary storytelling.
For more than three decades, ITVS has helped independent filmmakers bring powerful stories and underrepresented perspectives to audiences nationwide. Through funding, co-production, partnerships, and public media distribution, ITVS has played a distinctive role in ensuring that independent voices have a place in the national conversation.
Today, that role is more vital — and more complex — than ever.
The media landscape is being reshaped by new technologies, platforms, audience behaviors, business models, and expectations about whose stories get told and who gets to tell them. At the same time, the need for trusted, independent storytelling that helps audiences understand one another and the world around them has never been greater.
The next CEO will have the opportunity to help define what comes next.
The Opportunity Reporting to the Board of Directors, the President & CEO will provide the vision, leadership, and external presence to guide ITVS into its next era.This is a uniquely multidimensional CEO role. The leader will serve as chief strategist, fundraiser, organizational steward, and national ambassador for ITVS—working across the worlds of independent film, public media, philanthropy, journalism, and the broader creative ecosystem.
The CEO will lead an organization with an annual operating budget of approximately $16 million, a talented and committed staff of 40, and an extraordinary network of filmmakers, funders, public media partners, and industry collaborators.
The next leader will build on ITVS’s considerable legacy while asking ambitious questions about its future:
- How can ITVS ensure independent storytellers continue to have the resources and platforms to tell the stories that matter?
- How can the organization expand its reach and relevance as audiences increasingly consume nonfiction storytelling across platforms?
- How can ITVS deepen its role as a champion of diverse and underrepresented perspectives?
- How can it strengthen and diversify the resources required to sustain independent storytelling for the long term?
- What should the future of public-interest documentary storytelling look like—and what role can ITVS play in shaping it?
- This is an opportunity for a leader who is excited not simply to manage a successful organization, but to shape the future of an essential field.
Drive resources and sustainability. Serve as ITVS’s chief fundraising ambassador, cultivating deep relationships with foundations, philanthropists, public media partners, and other supporters while identifying new opportunities for sustainable growth and diversified revenue. Champion independent storytelling. Provide strategic leadership across ITVS’s work, including major co-production and funding decisions, ensuring that the organization’s investments reflect its mission and commitment…
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