Regional General Manager – Iowa​/Illinois

Division/Department:
Corporate

Location:

Iowa and Illinois

Job Title:

Regional General Manager
Wages: $60,000 per year
Full Time at about 40 hours a week

Corporate is looking for a Full Time Regional General Manager worker.

PLEASE SUBMIT A RESUME AND COVER LETTER, APPLICATION WITHOUT A COVER LETTER WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED

The primary responsibility of the Regional General Manager is to oversee the day to day duties of the Dubuque, IA and Quincy, IL stations and staff; generate income through donations, airtime sales, and production to fund the work of the stations; build relationships with churches/ministries as well as city officials, and to always be looking for ways to increase the viewership of the stations through traditional television as well as online/social media avenues for all cities and areas located within the covered DMA’s.

Everything that is done needs to point to winning souls, discipling and operating within high standards of integrity and best business practices.

The Regional GM position requires monthly travel of at least 4 days, to the station that you are not based out of, as well as serving the local communities within the DMA’s.

1. An excellent working knowledge of CTN. This includes the history of the network, as well as knowledge of programmers and company procedures.

2. Investigate local churches, ministries and non-profits and make phone calls, send out letters/postcards, and send emails to build a relationship in the cities located within the DMA’s. The INITIAL focus of these connections is to let them know we are in the community and are here to support them and NOT to get them on TV at first.

3. Attend pastor’s prayer groups, breakfasts’, Christian business meetings to make connections and learn the needs of the community. Always be looking for ways that your local station can participate in meeting the needs of your community.

4. Raising funds to support your station’s. This can be from airtime sales, production, or donations made to the season’s. Creating spots to play on air and online to promote the station and vision of CTN consistently through the year is important as well as regular online promotion to build a relationship with your audience.

5. Building viewership in the regions covered in your DMA’s with promotional tables at churches or events, media trades with other media outlets (ex. Christian radio) and a targeted social media plan.

6. Have a general knowledge of your Master Control rooms, cameras, studio equipment, studio control, etc. so you can properly direct your team members in their jobs and responsibilities as well as help with troubleshooting when things break. This will also help with communication to engineers, corporate IT and Master Control support staff.

7. Building your local mailing lists/email lists/social media connections and then at least quarterly giving testimonies and sharing vision for your station with those lists.

8. Finding volunteers to help at your station. These people can be found through the churches/pastors that you connect with and a great way for people to feel like they have buy-in at your station and for you to get things done.

9. Build and maintain relationships with your local programmers in each of the areas in which you serve.

10. Oversee that your websites stays fresh and accurate.

11. Always be looking for ways to increase cable, satellite and online coverage within your market areas.

12. Filing quarterly and certain yearly FCC reports for each of your stations.

13. Fulfilling or overseeing certain administrative duties such as: approving time cards for your staff (if applicable), performing employee evaluations, manager’s reports, expense reports, keeping media kits up to date, reviewing monthly airtime discrepancy reports to make sure they are accurate, fill out contract requests for new and renewing programmers, production agreements, reviewing monthly financial reports to make sure things are accurate and know where you are in your financial business dealings, etc.

14. Oversee that your programming stays accurate and is airing what will connect with your viewers. Oversee that…