Deputy Executive Director, Programming/Production
Lexington, KY
KET, The Kentucky Network
11/10/2025
Duties:
Direct the planning and activities of six senior managers and their 80-member full-time professional staffs. Departments include Programming, Operations, Production, Communications, Image, and Arts and Culture.
Administer and develop the financial plan for a $4.3 million annual operating budget for the PBS National Program Service, program acquisition, local production, communications, promotion, and operations. Responsible for audience growth and service expansion.
Develop, design, and implement local services strategies, including seven weekly local series, legislative coverage, independent production fund, documentaries, live events, and web content support.
Direct the programming of KET’s multicast services, with emphasis on KET1 (delayed NPS and local productions) and KET2 (NPS as fed), serving counties in ten Nielsen markets.
Coordinate on-air membership campaigns supported by the development office.
Handle FCC matters, contracts administration, strategic planning, production evaluation, and audience research (TRAC member).
Define, communicate, and implement an organizational vision for the division.
Value and encourage a friendly, open, and responsive workplace that is performance-based.
Qualifications
Knowledge, skills, and abilities required:
Team player and effective leader/mentor/trainer willing to develop the next generation of production and programming staff at KET.
Excellent verbal and written skills required.
Organized and effective senior administrator who exhibits sound judgment, mature personnel skills, production knowledge, and comprehensive planning skills.
Active in national industry organizations.
Contact Please send cover letter, résumé, and completed Kentucky state job application, to be received no later than January 21, 2005.
Kentucky State Job Application: REQUIRED
Microsoft Word - www.state.ky.us
PDF - www.state.ky.us
Direct the planning and activities of six senior managers and their 80-member full-time professional staffs. Departments include Programming, Operations, Production, Communications, Image, and Arts and Culture.
Administer and develop the financial plan for a $4.3 million annual operating budget for the PBS National Program Service, program acquisition, local production, communications, promotion, and operations. Responsible for audience growth and service expansion.
Develop, design, and implement local services strategies, including seven weekly local series, legislative coverage, independent production fund, documentaries, live events, and web content support.
Direct the programming of KET’s multicast services, with emphasis on KET1 (delayed NPS and local productions) and KET2 (NPS as fed), serving counties in ten Nielsen markets.
Coordinate on-air membership campaigns supported by the development office.
Handle FCC matters, contracts administration, strategic planning, production evaluation, and audience research (TRAC member).
Define, communicate, and implement an organizational vision for the division.
Value and encourage a friendly, open, and responsive workplace that is performance-based.
Qualifications
Knowledge, skills, and abilities required:
Team player and effective leader/mentor/trainer willing to develop the next generation of production and programming staff at KET.
Excellent verbal and written skills required.
Organized and effective senior administrator who exhibits sound judgment, mature personnel skills, production knowledge, and comprehensive planning skills.
Active in national industry organizations.
Contact Please send cover letter, résumé, and completed Kentucky state job application, to be received no later than January 21, 2005.
Kentucky State Job Application: REQUIRED
Microsoft Word - www.state.ky.us
PDF - www.state.ky.us
Experience / Skills Needed
BA or equivalent industry experience, with a minimum of 7 years of increasingly challenging broadcasting and/or television production and programming experience, with emphasis on production. Portfolio including recognitions required.
