Careers & Internships

Come work at Vermont Public Radio. Beneath is an inventory of open positions, together with full-time, part-time and internships. Please apply right this moment, and encourage your contacts to contemplate employment at VPR.

Vermont Public Radio gives equal employment alternatives to all workers and candidates for employment, and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any sort, with out regard to race, coloration, faith, age, intercourse, nationwide origin, incapacity standing, genetics, protected veteran standing, sexual orientation, gender identification or expression, or some other attribute protected by federal, state, or native legal guidelines.

We imagine a robust group consists of workers from a variety of backgrounds, with totally different abilities, expertise, and passions. If you don’t meet each place qualification however have a few of these abilities and really feel you might be the precise candidate for the job, we want to hear from you. Please apply and inform us extra about your self. How do I apply?

VPR + Vermont PBS seeks a advertising and communications chief who can join audiences with tales that deliver folks collectively. Our SVP of Viewers and Group will assist us perceive new and current audiences, so we are able to higher serve them.

This chief will know how one can use the instruments of viewers analysis, advertising, communications, and programming to create distinctive person experiences that attract audiences and hold them engaged.

The SVP of Viewers & Group has a dynamic position on the Management Crew, giving our content material creators the data and instruments to higher serve audiences, and connecting these audiences to methods to help us.

Expertise with and talent to construct relationships with many numerous audiences is vital to success on this place.

We provide 5+ weeks of paid time without work, paid FMLA, life insurance coverage, 401K, well being, dental, and imaginative and prescient plans. The compensation vary is $114,400-$149,000 based mostly on expertise.

Learn the complete job description right here.

Vermont PBS + VPR is in search of a Director of Digital Media to affix our crew and develop a forward-thinking On Demand programming technique. Reporting to the Sr VP of Viewers + Group, this place will oversee digital efforts throughout the group, setting a imaginative and prescient for how one can attain our new and current audiences in new and rising platforms. This place will work inside the Viewers and Group crew in addition to cross-departmentally to distribute content material with a particular deal with current and rising digital media. This place additionally works carefully with IT to pursue the continual enhancement of technical infrastructure to satisfy the evolving wants of the group, establish areas of alternative, and plan for the way forward for on-demand experiences.

You can be profitable on this position in the event you can take your digital expertise and broaden your abilities with a mindset that issues can at all times be optimized, carry the curiosity to attempt new techniques, and are motivated by delivering tangible outcomes

We provide compensation of $90-100,000 per yr, 5+ weeks of paid time without work, paid FMLA, life insurance coverage, 401K, well being, dental, and imaginative and prescient plans.

Learn the complete job description right here.

Vermont PBS is in search of a Media Specialist to be part of the grasp management crew that brings our academic, information, and leisure applications to our viewers. You can be liable for on-air program execution. We’re searching for somebody snug with know-how, keen to study new issues, and desperate to work with the groups who create broadcast VT PBS. The perfect candidate ought to display the power to domesticate and develop inclusive and equitable working relationships with co-workers and viewers, supporting and enhancing a tradition of belonging.

Expertise of not less than one yr in tv, radio, database administration, or manufacturing firm required. Must be conversant in digital video codecs, broadcast asset workflow, satellite tv for pc downlinks, closed captioning, and digital (internet and different media) distribution. Should possess technical competency in working computer systems and speaking with others on-site and remotely.

This place is a part of the Bargaining Unit (Union) on the compensation fee of $20.00 per hour, 40 hours per week; schedule consists of night and weekend shifts.

Learn the complete job description right here.

Information Producer

VPR seeks a inventive, enterprising, and considerate journalist to supply our profitable native information exhibits. We’re searching for somebody enthusiastic about new methods to have interaction our viewers on-air, digitally, and thru stay occasions.

A producer ought to have a ardour for conversations that deepen Vermonters’ understanding of their communities and maintain folks and organizations accountable. A producer should additionally deliver a collaborative spirit and be equally adept at breaking information and creating sound-rich discipline segments.

You should love the medium of public radio and discuss exhibits, however you don’t want direct broadcast expertise. We’re searching for not less than two years of journalism expertise.

We provide compensation of $55-65,000 per yr, 5+ weeks of paid time without work, paid FMLA, life insurance coverage, 401K, well being, dental, and imaginative and prescient plans.

Learn the complete job description right here.

Graphic Designer

VPR & Vermont PBS seeks a Graphic Designer to be the in-house skilled in the case of composition, typography, coloration, and model execution. Tasks embrace, however will not be restricted to promotions and advertisements, fundraising supplies, social media property, digital content material, on-air model components, printed collateral, and branded materials creation. A powerful candidate may have a important eye, be self-motivated and work collaboratively as a member of a bigger crew.

School diploma most popular. Minimal of three years of expertise creating graphics. Technical competency in working each Mac and PC computer systems is a should. A radical understanding of the Adobe Inventive Cloud suite of software program together with After Results, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign is required. A primary understanding of non-linear enhancing, video codecs, and media administration software program is critical.

Compensation: $24+ per hour (40 hours/week), relying on expertise.

Learn the complete job description right here.

Please submit your resume, cowl letter, accomplished VPR utility and hyperlink to portfolio to careers@vpr.org.

HOW TO APPLY:

Please ship the VPR Job Utility, a canopy letter and your resume to careers@vpr.org

VPR is an Equal Alternative Employer

VPR Job Utility

Candidates should submit a accomplished VPR job utility.

Suggestions:

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4. Remember to connect this accomplished PDF alongside together with your resume, cowl letter and an extra supplies required.

Equal Employment Alternative (EEO)

VPR/Vermont PBS is a proud equal alternative employer. We work diligently to recruit a broad pool of candidates and to rent and promote certified people whose private experiences, traits, and abilities moderately mirror the range of the communities served by VPR/Vermont PBS. Our equal employment alternatives apply to all phrases and circumstances of employment, together with recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, switch, leaves of absence, compensation, and coaching. We encourage functions from ladies, minority teams, veterans, and other people with disabilities. 

We’re devoted to offering broad outreach relating to profession alternatives at VPR and we search the assistance of native organizations in referring certified candidates to our station. In case your group distributes details about employment alternatives to job seekers, or refers job seekers to employers and want to obtain job emptiness notices from VPR, please contact us.

View VPR’s EEO Stories right here.