Position Open for Part-Time Office Assistant – Apply by July 15, 2010
June 23, 2010
Great Lakes Radio, Inc.
2025 US 41 W
Marquette, MI 49855
906-228-6800
906-228-8128 fax
employment@broadcasteverywhere.com
Great Lakes Radio, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer in the Marquette Michigan area looking to fill a part-time Office Assistant position. Excellent customer service skills and positive attitude are a must for this position. Great Lakes Radio, Inc. is currently in the process of moving to a new and updated location in the Marquette County area so the ability to help where needed with a flexible mindset is a must. General computer skills and a willing additude to learn new tasks is important.
Please submit Resumes at employment@broadcasteverywhere.com or by fax at 906-228-8128
Assistant Departmental Manager – Please Apply by May 14, 2010
May 4, 2010
Great Lakes Radio Inc. is looking for an Assistant Departmental Manager.
Please Apply by May 14, 2010 by emailing your resume to employment@broadcasteverywhere.com or faxing 906-228-8128
Great Lakes Radio is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Marketing Executive – Manistique / Escanaba
April 19, 2010
Great Lakes Radio, Inc. Employment Opportunity
Position/Title: Media Marketing Executive
Open Date: 4/15/2010
Application Deadline: 5/31/2010
Description:
Do you have experience with radio, print, television, or other media marketing professional looking for a change?
Do you have other sales experience in the community?
Great Lakes Radio offers the best opportunities for successful part-time and full-time Marketing Executives with strong community connections. Our opportunities are better than any other local media outlet with increasing volume commissions, promotion commissions, new business bonuses, and collection bonuses as well as generous allotments for laptops, travel stipends, and even provision for part-time or full-time assistants to keep the successful executive free to focus on success while better serving clients and commitments.
Requirements:
Comfort and confidence in establishing community connections, maintaining business relationships, completing reports, forms and details according to policies designed to satisfy clients with timely, professional, and creative results.
Proficiency with basic computer skills including but not limited to: e-mail, fax machines, Microsoft Office, industry specific software and Internal Intranet and other web-related tools are a must.
The ability to multi-task, understand client markets, listen and accurately communicate with client needs, and apply learning to the needs and desires of clients are also a must.
Excellent communication skills, effective and creative script writing ability, experienced application of fundamental marketing skills as well as excellent presentation skills will allow candidate to focus on client needs and provide clients with the highest quality service.
Preference will be given to Career-Minded Marketing Professionals with at least two years of full-time sales experience and a solid record of success.
Additional Requirements:
Driven to succeed with a very strong sense of purpose. A self-motivated, self-starter with goals.
Positive attitude everyday.
How To Apply
Resumes, cover letters, salary requirements, schedule and so on may be sent to:
Network Offices
Great Lakes Radio, Inc.
2025 U.S. 41 West
Marquette, MI 49855
Fax: (906)-228-8128
Contact: employment@greatlakesradio.org with Cc: to employment@broadcasteverywhere.com
Great Lakes Radio, Inc. and WQXO Am 1400 is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages women and minorities to apply.
Part Time On-Air Personality
April 18, 2010
Part Time On-Air Personality
Employment Opportunity – On-Air Personality
Positions Available : 3
Latest Deadline To Apply: May 31, 2010
Type of Position: Part Time
Compensation: Based on experience;
Description:
Great Lakes Radio is seeking to hire up to three (3) part-time On-Air Personalities and Interviewers.
High School Diploma/G.E.D. Required.
An organized, pleasant speaker that can learn new things and keeps cool under stress are the best traits to start with.
Computer knowledge and comfort a must. Should be comfortable with office productivity products like Microsoft Office, Email, Online posting, and be comfortable with MS Windows. As part of reporting duties, light-duty ability to post a photo, work with MP3s (and/or Wav) files as well a regular short postings to our website will be expected.
The main focus of this position is mostly about the passion for serving community and listeners through promotion of local events, happenings, businesses and interviews.
Applicants will need to be computer savvy, work with a studio board (after training) and/or remote tracking software and be proficient handling people and phones/equipment at the same time.
The successful candidate should be able to grow and develop their skills.
Previous radio experience not required, but an organized, quick-learner is a must.
Successful candidate should be able setup and conduct interviews (including recording and editing them), plus post summary of Interviews (usually with photos) and daily show activity on the Internet. Ability to do telephone Interviews, In-Studio Interviews, and Field Interviews will be required from time-to-time; the ability to learn quickly to do these radio-related skills can’t be understated.
Candidate Should be good at reading (ads/live reads/spots/promos/announcements) for sponsors, reading weather, reading local and state sports scores, and announcing local news items, birthdays, calendar items, and school closings. Unexpected things arise, so the successful candidate should be adaptable enough to smoothly work out problems on the fly.
The successful Candidate should be able to take incoming information, organize it, and followup to provide community with real sense of LOCAL flavor and LOCAL interests. Candidate should be able to make any event or news relevant to listeners and our web visitors.
Candidate should be able to work with little or no supervision once trained and have the qualities of a self-starter, self-motivated person.
Candidate must be at least 18 years old.
Additional Requirements
Ability to be trained and thoroughly learn industry specific software and Internal Intranet, calendar tools, and live-read system and other web-related tools are a must. Ability to post on web short summaries of daily guests, interviews, calendar items, and upcoming events.
Ability to be trained quickly and learn to creatively apply learning to the needs and desires of clients and community is also a must, including but not limited to producing on-air commercial spots and doing remote news, events, and other coverage from time-to-time.
Excellent communication skills, pleasant public presentation, creative insights preferred.
Other tasks as requested by management from time to time.
How To Apply
Resumes, cover letters, salary requirements, schedule and so on may be sent to:
Network Offices
Great Lakes Radio, Inc.
2025 U.S. 41 West
Marquette, MI 49855
Fax: (906)-228-8128
Contact: employment@greatlakesradio.org with Cc: to employment@broadcasteverywhere.com
Great Lakes Radio, Inc. and WQXO Am 1400 is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages women and minorities to apply.
Employment Opportunity – Assistant Production Director
April 18, 2010
Employment Opportunity – Assistant Production Director
Positions Available : 1
Latest Deadline To Apply: May 31, 2010
Type of Position: Part Time Entry Level with potential of almost Full Time.
Compensation: Based on experience; Starting $7.25/hr
Description:
Great Lakes Radio, Inc. is seeking an entry level Assistant Production Director. The successful candidate must exhibit strong positive energy and work closely with a team that spans multiple radio stations.
The successful candidate must multitask and prioritize.
They will produce spots, follow daily task lists, complete detailed checklists, catch and fix problems, work closely with traffic, undertake some programming tasks, edit sound files, create sound files, manage and maintain various music and production libraries, effectively use various software to achieve goals in a timely manner. They will communicate regularly with management through reports.
After training, occasionally act as traffic manager assistant. Some board op duties will be required. During sport season, evening and weekend duties may increase significantly. After training, basic computer maintenance and troubleshooting tasks and staff computer training with network tools will also be carried out by successful candidate.
Programming daily and weekly scheduling logs and on-air machines will be expected after training. Verification of spots plays before and after play date will be required.
Will have to master scheduling, voice tracking, and sound editing software. Will schedule streaming and recording of shows, sports, and special events. Successful candidate will closely work with sports staff, software, sports programming, and sports details across all stations of Great Lakes Radio, effectively acting as a assistant to the Sports Director.
The successful candidate gets bottom results through intense work, attention to details, and ability to learn and apply new learning to various and changing tasks.
The successful candidate will solve problems and bring unresolved problems quickly to the attention of supervisors and management.
Duties:
Help do production, assist with program director duties, follow all rules and directives of management.
Basically, it is an entry-level catch all job where employee will do all labors required or requested by managment, including but not limited to daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly log reports, filing of reports, log verifies, setting and configuration checks, produce spots, rip cds, download and process spots, diagnose and fix errors, assist on special projects, run board, sit in on-air, subsitute when people are sick, update periodically changing spots/promotions, run errands for various persons in management, check computer settings, clean work areas, provide voice and other talents on advertising spots, work evenings and and weekends when requested, be available most times of days as needed for miscellaneous duties.
Additionally, there may be regular shift or times to assist with the frontdesk/reception area/shopping show sales to public.
Requirements:
Ability to many tasks at once and get good results in a fast paced work environment.
Technical skills with sound files and editing a big positive. Knowledge of Adobe Audition, Audacity a very strong desired skill. Creative attention to serving commercial clients is a must.
Ability to help sales and marketing staff to turn scripts or script ideas or in-field needs analysis from average presentation to excellent results is a must. Helping team to serve client needs is highest priority.
Excellent work ethic a must. Good attitude a must.
Ability to work flexible hours a must. Ability to cover on-air shifts, including Voice Tracked shift from time-to-time.
Good Production voice and experience highly desirable, but ability to become excellent a must! Communication abilities a must.
Additional Requirements
Comfort and confidence in completing details while adhering to company policies designed to satisfy clients and community with timely, professional, and creative results.
Proficiency with basic computer skills including but not limited to: typing, e-mail and webmail, phone, fax machine, Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.org (Great Lakes Radio, Inc. uses open-source Office clone). Ability to learn new tools with ease and effectively use such tools. After training, candidate will be expected to post to websites, manage online audio archives, write public announcements and post them to any of more than a dozen websites is a must as well.
Ability to listen and accurately communicate, file required reports and keep all station operations legal.
Ability to be trained quickly and learn to creatively apply learning to the needs of company a must, including but not limited to producing on-air commercial spots, promotional materials, and assist with event management and/or on-air tasks, and other tasks as requested management.
How To Apply
Resumes, cover letters, salary requirements, schedule and so on may be sent to:
Network Offices
Great Lakes Radio, Inc.
2025 U.S. 41 West
Marquette, MI 49855
Fax: (906)-228-8128
Contact: employment@greatlakesradio.org with Cc: to employment@broadcasteverywhere.com
Great Lakes Radio, Inc. and WQXO Am 1400 is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages women and minorities to apply.
Career Opportunity – Station Manager – WKQS – 101.9 FM
April 18, 2010
Career Opportunity – Station Manager – WKQS - 101.9 FM
Positions Available : 1
Latest Deadline To Apply: May 31, 2010
Type of Position: Full Time
Compensation: Based on experience; moderate base salary + generous bonus plan based on success and results.
Description:
Great Lakes Radio, Inc. is seeking a General Station Manager for WKQS – 101.9 FM. The successful candidate must be able to direct a team that successfully integrates into the Great Lakes Radio, Inc. family while bringing the station to #1 in market before Year’s end.
By September 11, 2010, the successful candidate will raise new revenue to at least 29% above current or last year mark, whichever is greater. Thereafter, the successful candidate must continually increase both revenue and profit while keeping the station ranked #1 in its market.
The successful candidate will be detail-oriented but have a solid grasp of the big picture. They get aware-winning results, infuse teamwork into their staff, and inspire through effective positive leadership.
They will bring good programming and marketing plans that deliver increasingly profitable product of community radio. They must not only make take the station to #1 in market, but they will make the station #1 for agency and local sponsorship support as well.
The successful candidate gets bottom line results through intense work and applying the solid fundamentals of radio marketing while simultaneously increasing NTR and e commerce success.
The successful candidate will solve problems within resource constraints allocated and go beyond mere problem solving by creating increasingly popular programming that attracts a growing listenership and maintains long-term sponsorship.
Requirements:
Excellent staff and community relations experience. Successful experience as a Station Manager and Sales Manager. Ability to creatively maximize opportunities to create bottom line results. Honest to a fault.
Excellent understanding and adherence to labor laws, administrative duties, FCC regulations, maintenance of Public File, and ability to keep priorities in top-of-mind awareness of staff, sponsors, and community.
Additional Requirements
Comfort and confidence in establishing community connections, maintaining community and business relationships, completing details according to company policies designed to satisfy clients and community with timely, professional, and creative results.
Professional participation in company practices and policies reviews to standardize good practices across all station in the Great Lakes Radio, Inc. Ability to closely adhere to established practices and policies and contribute insights to improving practices and policies.
Proficiency with basic computer skills including but not limited to: e-mail and webmail, phone, fax machine, Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.org (Great Lakes Radio, Inc. uses open-source Office clone). Ability to learn new tools with ease and effectively use such tools in any and all promotional and marketing plans.
Ability to select qualified candidates to best serve in future open employment positions with eye toward excellence and efficiency.
The ability to multi-task while incorporating best practices to understand community sponsors, station listeners, and station demographic . Ability to listen and accurately communicate, file required reports (corporate and FCC), and keep all station operations legal while staying within budget boundaries.
Ability to be trained quickly and learn to creatively apply learning to the needs of company a must, including but not limited to producing on-air commercial spots, promotional materials, and doing event management and/or on-air tasks, and other tasks as requested management from time-to-time.
Excellent communication skills, pleasant public presentation, creative insights preferred.
Ability make target goals while staying within resource limits allocated is an absolute must.
How To Apply
Resumes, cover letters, salary requirements, schedule and so on may be sent to:
Network Offices
Great Lakes Radio, Inc.
2025 U.S. 41 West
Marquette, MI 49855
Fax: (906)-228-8128
Contact: employment@greatlakesradio.org with Cc: to employment@broadcasteverywhere.com
Great Lakes Radio, Inc. and WQXO Am 1400 is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages women and minorities to apply.
Career Opportunity – Station Manager – WFXD – 103.3 FM
April 18, 2010
Career Opportunity – Station Manager – WFXD – 103.3 FM
Positions Available : 1
Latest Deadline To Apply: May 3, 2010
Type of Position: Full Time
Compensation: Based on experience; moderate base salary + generous bonus plan based on success and results.
Description:
Great Lakes Radio, Inc. is seeking a General Station Manager for WFXD, 103.3 FM. The successful candidate must be able to direct a team that successfully integrates into the Great Lakes Radio, Inc. family while bringing the station to #1 in market before Year’s end.
By September 11, 2010, the successful candidate will raise new revenue to at least 29% above current or last year mark, whichever is greater. Thereafter, the successful candidate must continually increase both revenue and profit while keeping the station ranked #1 in its market.
The successful candidate will be detail-oriented but have a solid grasp of the big picture. They infuse teamwork into their staff and inspire through effective positive leadership.
They will bring good programming and marketing plans that deliver increasingly profitable product of community radio and modern country through a 100,000 watt powerhouse. They must not only make take the station to #1 in market, but they will make the station #1 for agency and local sponsorship support as well.
The successful candidate gets bottom line results through intense work and applying the solid fundamentals of radio marketing while simultaneously increasing NTR and e commerce success.
The successful candidate will solve problems within resource constraints allocated and go beyond mere problem solving by creating increasingly popular programming that attracts a growing listenership and maintains long-term sponsorship.
Requirements:
Excellent staff and community relations experience. Successful experience as a Station Manager and Sales Manager. Ability to creatively maximize opportunities to create bottom line results. Honest to a fault.
Excellent understanding and adherence to labor laws, administrative duties, FCC regulations, maintenance of Public File, and ability to keep priorities in top-of-mind awareness of staff, sponsors, and community.
Additional Requirements
Comfort and confidence in establishing community connections, maintaining community and business relationships, completing details according to company policies designed to satisfy clients and community with timely, professional, and creative results.
Professional participation in company practices and policies reviews to standardize good practices across all station in the Great Lakes Radio, Inc. Ability to closely adhere to established practices and policies and contribute insights to improving practices and policies.
Proficiency with basic computer skills including but not limited to: e-mail and webmail, phone, fax machine, Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.org (Great Lakes Radio, Inc. uses open-source Office clone). Ability to learn new tools with ease and effectively use such tools in any and all promotional and marketing plans.
Ability to select qualified candidates to best serve in future open employment positions with eye toward excellence and efficiency.
The ability to multi-task while incorporating best practices to understand community sponsors, station listeners, and station demographic . Ability to listen and accurately communicate, file required reports (corporate and FCC), and keep all station operations legal while staying within budget boundaries.
Ability to be trained quickly and learn to creatively apply learning to the needs of company a must, including but not limited to producing on-air commercial spots, promotional materials, and doing event management and/or on-air tasks, and other tasks as requested management from time-to-time.
Excellent communication skills, pleasant public presentation, creative insights preferred.
Ability make target goals while staying within resource limits allocated is an absolute must.
How To Apply
Resumes, cover letters, salary requirements, schedule and so on may be sent to:
Network Offices
Great Lakes Radio, Inc.
2025 U.S. 41 West
Marquette, MI 49855
Fax: (906)-228-8128
Contact: employment@greatlakesradio.org with Cc: to employment@broadcasteverywhere.com
Great Lakes Radio, Inc. and WQXO Am 1400 is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages women and minorities to apply.
Munising, MI Part-Time Morning Host
April 9, 2010
Munising, MI Part Time Morning Host – Please Apply by April 30, 2010
WQXO – AM 1400 is seeking to hire a part-time morning Host, Interviewer (reporter), and community promotions specialist (some Marketing).
High School Diploma/G.E.D. Required.
An organized, pleasant speaker that can learn new things and keeps cool under stress are the best traits to start with.
Computer knowledge and comfort a must. Should be comfortable with office productivity products like Microsoft Office, Email, Online posting, and be comfortable with MS Windows. As part of reporting duties, light-duty ability to post a photo, work with MP3s (and/or Wav) files as well a regular short postings to our website will be expected.
Ability to work in high pressure situations is helpful for success, but the ability to keep your cool, instill confidence, and learn new software and equipment is a must.
The main focus of this position is mostly about the passion for serving your town through promotion of local events, happenings, businesses and interviews.
Title: WQXO Show Host – Community Interviewer / Announcer – Community Promotions (Marketing)
Opening Date: April 5, 2010
Closing Date: April 30, 2010
Type: Part-time, approximately 10-15 (10) hours/week
Number of Positions Open: 1
Position
WQXO – AM 1400 is seeking Show Host, Interviewer, and Community Promotions Specialist for about two to three hours each dayat the Munising Studio in the Navigator Restaurant, M-F.
Applicants will need to be computer savvy, work with a studio board (after training) and software and be very proficient while handling people and phones/equipment at the same time. Furthermore, the preferred candidate will have a strong desire to promote and serve Munising and Alger County listeners.
Obviously multitasking is a must while keeping calm through any and all “oops” moments. And there will be “oops” moments!
Knowledge of Oldies & Classic music can be learned. With the best candidates, computer skills and radio board skills, phone, interview, audio editing, and community promotions skills can be learned in a short time. The successful candidate should be able to grow and develop their skills quickly while maintaining good control of themselves and their Interviews. Email, web posts, and typical activities with social networking sites and scheduling events and interviews are also part of job.
Ability to tell stories about history, community and the local Munising or Alger area is helpful. Ability to coax others to tell stories is even more important. Genuine personality is preferred to “radio voice” applicants.
Setting up Interviews, working a contact list of Interviews, growing community contact list (especially for Interviews), and keeping the ball rolling for two hours a day is really important.
Previous radio experience not required, but an organized, quick-learner is a must.
Successful candidate will be able setup and conduct interviews (including recording and editing them), plus post summary of Interviews (usually with photos) on web. Ability to do telephone Interviews, In-Studio Interviews, and Field Interviews will be required quickly;the ability to learn quickly to do these radio-related skills can’t be understated.
Candidate Should be good at reading (ads/live reads/spots/promos/announcements) for sponsors, reading weather, reading local and state sports scores, and announcing local news items, birthdays, calendar items, and school closings. Unexpected things arise, so the successful candidate should be adaptable enough to smoothly work out problems on the fly.
The successful Candidate should be able to take incoming information, organize it, and followup to provide community with real sense of LOCAL flavor and LOCAL interests. Candidate should be able to make any event or news relevant to listeners and our web visitors.
Candidate should be able to work with little or no supervision once trained and have the qualities of a self-starter, motivated person.
Having connection to local community organization and businesses is also a good positive trait, but the ability to grow and multiply relationships with relevant community organizations and businesses is even more important.
The official job opening is posted http://wqxo.com/?page_id=71 . Candidate must be at least 18yrs. If you love Munising and Alger County and think you have what it takes, why not apply? Know somebody that might like the job? Pass this on!
Additional Requirements
Comfort and confidence in establishing community connections, maintaining community and business relationships, completing details according to company policies designed to satisfy clients and community with timely, professional, and creative results.
Proficiency with basic computer skills including but not limited to: e-mail and webmail, phone, fax machine, Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.org (Great Lakes Radio, Inc. uses open-source Office clone).
Ability to be trained and thoroughly learn industry specific software and Internal Intranet and other web-related tools are a must. Ability to post on web short summaries of daily guests, interviews, calendar items, and upcoming events.
The ability to multi-task, understand Munising & Alger market and community needs. Ability to listen and accurately communicate and gather newsworthy, quality news related to broadcast area on topics as wide ranging as business, history, markets, politics, policies, entertainment, music.
Ability to do live in-studio interviews as well as live and recorded phone interviews.
Ability to be trained quickly and learn to creatively apply learning to the needs and desires of clients and community is also a must, including but not limited to producing on-air commercial spots and doing remote news, events, and other coverage from time-to-time. Excellent communication skills, pleasant public presentation, creative insights preferred.
While not required, a candidate with or willing to develop some fundamental community promotions skills and presentation skills may allow them to potentially enhance income by participating in certain marketing promotions and sales opportunities from time-to-time.
How To Apply
Resumes, cover letters, salary requirements, schedule and so on may be sent to:
Munising Office
WQXO Radio – AM 1400 – True Oldies
101 E Munising Ave
Munising, MI 49862
OR
Network Offices
Great Lakes Radio, Inc.
2025 U.S. 41 West
Marquette, MI 49855
Fax: (906)-228-8128
Contact: employment@greatlakesradio.org with Cc: to employment@wqxo.com
Job Opening – Contract
WQXO – AM 1400 is seeking contract reporters and stringers. These are very part-time, independent contractor positions.
How To Apply
Resumes, cover letters, salary requirements, bits, proposals and schedules and so on may be sent to:
Munising Office
WQXO Radio – AM 1400 – True Oldies
101 E Munising Ave
Munising, MI 49862
OR
Network Offices
Great Lakes Radio, Inc.
2025 U.S. 41 West
Marquette, MI 49855
Fax: (906)-228-8128
Contact: employment@greatlakesradio.org with Cc: to employment@wqxo.com
Great Lakes Radio, Inc. and WQXO Am 1400 is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Sports Director – Please Apply by July 1, 2010
April 5, 2010
Great Lakes Radio, Inc.
2025 U.S. 41 West
Marquette, MI 49855
906-228-6800
906-228-8128 Fax
employment@greatlakesradio.org
Position – Sports Director
Number of Positions Available: 1
Accepting Applications until July 1st, 2010
Great Lakes Radio, Inc. (GLR) is seeking a passionate, qualified, detail-oriented sports professional with strong computer and communications abilities who can develop close and productive relationships with athletic directors, sponsors, and GLR staff.
The successful candidate will handle all aspects of sports for all stations at Great Lakes Radio, Inc., including but not limited to ensuring that sports sponsors are delivered the full array of options promised and that Great Lakes Radio Sports is the gold standard for sports coverage in our market.
From equipment, to announcers and color, to board ops, to game promotions, to organizing and managing the weekly sports shows and daily sports promos, to online presence, and to every detail of each game, the successful candidate will deliver results. The goals is that every dollar spent on his pay means at least 3 times as much is made through sports sponsorships and online and non-traditional revenue opportunities.
Every aspect of excellent sports promotions, sports programming, online promotions, sports broadcast technology, and the broadcasts will be the responsibility of the Sports Director.
The candidate will be able to manage internal information, inter- and intra-station communications, and public promotions of sports so that our schools, the public, our online visitors, and all station(s) personnel will be up-to-date and ready to discuss recent and upcoming sports events with knowledge and confidence. The candidate will make our online sports presence – such as UpLocalSports.com – shine, providing the definitive coverage, archive, and promotions for the games we broadcast..
Examples of what the ideal candidate will do:
Make www. uplocalsports.com their own. The ideal candidate is so passionate and committed that they’d be ashamed if a bit of our sports coverage isn’t both on air or on line.
He or She takes a personal interest in making sure that on-air staff says the score last night. If some aspect of our sports efforts falls short, the successful candidate takes immediate action to make sure errors and mistakes don’t happen again.
The successful candidate fixes problems. They are the master of the system, planning for the unexpected, and delivering even under tough circumstances.
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He or she has the ability to make sales people feel confident about our sports programs and products, because, in part, salespeople are confident the GLR Sports Directors. The GLR Sports Director knows their stuff, gets it right, and generates excitement about the results.
When there is the slightest problem in a broadcast, he or she gets on the phone, remotely logs in, or even hops in car and runs down to fix it. That’s because the successful sports director monitors results, double-checks efforts, verifies, and uses that information to improve the outcome every single day.
The successful candidate is as comfortable at lunch with a big client or schools athletic director as they are solving an unbalanced sound equipment or working out the kinks in phone lines in various venues. Whatever the unknowns, the successful candidate will effectively cope to meet every challenge.
The ideal candidate does their job because they love the stuff. The ideal candidate has initiative, is creative, and lives for the best game broadcast possible. The ideal can motivate and lead others to the excitement as well.
He or she sees every part of the job as part of the bigger sports programming mission. Sports is product to sell, a show to produce, and a passion to partake. The Sports Director’s passion for sports delivers premium quality broadcasts and constantly increasing sports sponsorships.
The ideal candidate promotes with pride.
The successful candidate seeks out sports sales, sometimes even participating directly in sales. He or she makes the bottom line rise because successful candidate never forgets the bottom line.
The ideal candidate works to make sure that every sponsor is delivered what GLR promises. Every opportunity for new sponsorship is pursued.
The ideal candidate may know that there is an upper limit to the on-air audience, but online efforts must deliver more and more visitors each week. Video, photos, and write-ups of games are just expected.
Awesome coverage online should be easy to distilled down into a 15 page proposals for each school to renew sports contracts each year.
Every aspect of the results should look, feel, and be impressive. With pride, the ideal candidate will find a projector, show our sites, and summaries pictures, videos, and words just how Great Lakes Radio sports stands apart..
The successful candidate always follows up, drives down, and crawls into the situation and gets it resolved. No excuses.
The successful candidate loves their job, and it shows!
Great Lakes Radio, Inc. and WQXO Am 1400 is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages women and minorities to apply.
Computer & Network Technician – Please Apply by July 1, 2010
April 5, 2010
Great Lakes Radio, Inc.
2025 U.S. 41 West
Marquette, MI 49855
906-228-6800
906-228-8128 Fax
employment@greatlakesradio.org
Position – Computer and Network Tech
Number of Positions Available: 1
Accepting Applications until July 1, 2010
Type of Position: After July 2010, usually Part-time, 10-20hours/wk but with more hours during upcoming transition and move of offices to new location and adoption of new software(s).
Position Description: Great Lakes Radio, Inc. (GLR) is seeking a professional computer and network technician that applies standards, responds quickly, follows up and reports quickly on the status and progress of repairs and projects.
The Successful Candidate: The successful candidate will have strong knowledge of Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and eventually Windows 7. They will be prepared to learn and master installation, setups, and troubleshooting of a several generations of radio industry software and tools from production tools like Adobe Audition to various Radio Production, Scheduling, Trafficking, RDS, and streaming servers and tools.
The successful candidate will have the ability to successfully complete preventive, on-going, and disaster maintenance, backup, documentation and reporting a must. This is a job that requires strong system, data protection, recovery skills and a well-developed understanding of converting and managing networking infrastructure.
The successful candidate will not only be able to adapt quickly to new and upgraded software needs and infrastructure changes, they will have a strong fundamental understanding of system infrastructure and use that understanding to maintain and improve system performances at both the systems level as well as the networking level.
Candidate must be able to configure, maintain, update, upgrade, repair and recover from disasters related to desktop, laptop, servers, networks and networking tools. Ability to setup, configure, secure, backup, recover, restore, and maintain FTP, Web (Intranet Servers IIS and Apache), Vendor-specific server-client software/tools, databases (MS SQL and MySql), and maintain email server, streaming server, and audio archive server will be required.
Understanding of system scripting, Linksys, Cisco and other brand routers, and most Internet protocols a must. Ability to properly configure a secure wireless network required. Ability to effectively setup, maintain, and evaluate firewalls and proxy servers. Intrusion detection duties are included.
Example Computer Tech Responsibilities:
The Computer Technician is responsible for providing desktop hardware, software support and quality service to user community. Duties include installation and maintenance of computers, networking, and peripheral equipment as well as associated operational documentation. The Computer Technician is responsible for performing these duties in accordance with documented policies and procedures and as management dictates, with a strong bias to apply industry standards and careful attention to protection of systems from infection, infiltration, hacking, and data loss and/or data misappropriation.
The performance of routine technical and associated physical tasks may be required; packaging and un-packaging and preparing new equipment, assembly of computer systems and peripherals, back-up/restore of user data, installing standard software, and initiating/troubleshooting network connections are a few examples.
Computer/Network Technician will be responsible for the installation, maintenance, securing, monitoring and repairs to all new and existing equipment such as critical servers, network infrastructure, workstations, printers and monitors.
Example of Additional Networking Responsibilities:
* Proactive monitoring of the health and status of the production network, servers and applications using the appropriate monitoring tools
* Provide first tier support and be a point of escalation as it relates to monitoring services
* Create, review, log troubleshooting notes and close network trouble tickets. Maintain outage notifications logs and follow documented escalation procedures where appropriate. Work closely with ISP to maintain Internet connection(s).
* Assist networked employees in the troubleshooting and resolution of issues
* Identify how the monitoring tools can be leveraged for system performance enhancement and report showing environment trending
* Work closely with key vendors and escalate problems to them as necessary, while providing alternative workarounds to keep work flow and operations active.
* Maintain documentation of processes, procedures, troubleshooting guides and change management logs.
Additional Computer Tech Responsibilities:
* Performs troubleshooting and repairs on computers and peripheral systems or equipment according to current or developing desktop standard configuration guidelines and documented procedures
* Performs daily review of open work orders to prioritize tasking. Documents resolution and closes completed work orders
* Images, tests, and installs desktop/laptop computers for all employees, systems, and computers; this includes installing and configuring office software (MS Office and/or Open Office), email clients (MS Outlook, Thunderbird), Operating Systems (Microsoft 2003, XP or later, but with some older software sometimes) encryption tools and configuring and securing wireless access as needed
* Provides desktop technical assistance to System Administration and Network Operations teams as needed or contracted.
* Performs and documents preventive maintenance of computer equipment as required. Similarly, Performs and documents all updates, upgrades, and configurations of anti-virus, Operating Systems, anti-spyware, anti-malware, client and server Firewalls, Networking and client passwords, servers, and Network Attached Storage Devices.
* Facilitates vendor warranty return process, tests and evaluates items returned from repair
* Participates in life-cycle replacement tasking and other technical improvement projects
* Manages retrograde efforts for all computer equipment, this includes performing DoD or better wipe on all hard drives and preparing required documentation
* Responsible for maintaining physical inventories, supplies, tools and ensuring accuracy as directed
* Participates or Undertakes in the creation of technical and procedural documentation. Performs monthly/annual/seasonal review of documentation.
* Alerts management to potential threats, abuses, and dangers to systems, equipment, data, or practices.
* Good maintenance of passwords as per policy.
* Maintenance of all equipment serial numbers, software licenses, user keys, and configuration backups matching hardware and licensed machine(s).
* Provide, sometimes, remote technical support on many different softwares in a Windows environment
Basic Requirements:
* You MUST be an excellent hardware repair tech and have very strong troubleshooting skills.
* You MUST have a good understanding of DNS, Active Directory, and DHCP.
* You must be able to provide Router support, VPN support, Terminal Services Support, Remote Access and Maintenance Support, Proxy Server Support, Firewall Support, Intrusion Detection Support
* Must be able to install MS Windows Servers, Re-Install Servers, Install Windows Operating Systems and Configure Drivers, Settings, and Security.
* Must be experienced with system imaging, data backup, system restoration, server restoration, server backups.
* Must be Experience with print and fax servers for installation and support.
* Windows XP and 2000 desktop support required, including but not limited to system optimization
* Good communication and interpersonal skills are essential.
Teamwork Requirements:
* Go Getter. Resolver.
* An experienced professional Technician or a Candidate wanting to train quickly to be a professional technician
* Ability to communicate and work with staff, vendors, management, and third-party technical support. Self-motivated, self-guiding, self-critical.
* Start by training and working more hours in April 6th-10th, then again in May – July to help Move and Transition To New Site. Later, a regular 10-20 hours a week in computer, network and server maintenance
* Knowledge of radio equipment, studio setup, sound equipment, and various ways that such equipment is put together with software is something that if not already understood, must be quickly learned.
* Successful candidate takes pride making things work according to good standards.
* Shows initiative, but has ability to express/write up ideas to present for approval before applying ideas.
* Ability to eventually work weekends, evenings to minimize operational downtime.
* Self-improving, growing and always learning to improve skills and improve results.
* Wants that job, Likes that job, Takes pride in the job.
* Works well with others. Can communicate to non-technical people, explain upgrades, write clearly, and train others on basic use of computer and network tools.
General Networking Requirements:
* Previous NOC experience in a small to medium operation
* Good Understanding of standard IP networking, and troubleshooting
* Good Understanding of Microsoft servers and OS’s, including, SQL, IIS, Windows 2003, XP
* Good Understanding of email servers, ftp servers, and http servers, both Windows and Linux-based
* Some familiarity with Linux or Unix based systems and networks very helpful
* Storage technologies, NAS, Automated backups, server based .
* Excellent understanding of Cisco, switches, hubs, wireless access, wireless and wired security, proxies, and firewalls
* Knowledge and experience with Active Directory, Windows Networking, Internet Domain Management helpful as well.
* Ability to work day, evening, or night shifts and holidays as required
* Flexible with the ability to handle stressful situations
* Understanding of most Microsoft Office Products and Open Source Alternatives Required
Additional Requirements:
Must be able to set up user accounts, groups, and network shares. Must be willing and able to follow directions and request assistance as required. Must have excellent written and oral communications skills. Must be able to multi-task. Personal commitment to excellence. Must have good understanding of how WAMP or LAMP web operations run. Basic skills with some scripting language helpful. Ability to grow to expand tasks, responsibilities, and improve results as requested by management.
The successful candidate always assesses the situation and gets it resolved. No excuses.
The successful candidate loves their job, and it shows!
Great Lakes Radio, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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