Manager, Station Operations

SAN-Bernardino-Community-College-District; San Bernardino (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

San Bernardino Community College District operates KVCR and oversees television, radio, digital, and related broadcast activities. The role provides supervision and direction to volunteers, interns, and staff, ensuring operations align with district plans, FCC rules, and quality standards.

Grant funding may affect this position. Responsibilities include coordinating with departments, vendors, and partners; developing workflows; and supporting community programming and events for Inland Southern

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and experience in public media, broadcasting, or related fields.
• Three years of experience in public media, broadcasting, television, radio, digital media, or related operations, including leadership roles.
• Equivalency provisions for education and experience are described in district policy.
• Experience with budgeting, scheduling, and regulatory compliance is expected.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day operations of KVCR and assigned broadcast, production, and digital activities.
• Coordinate staff, volunteers, interns, and temporary personnel; provide supervision and direction.
• Ensure compliance with FCC rules and district procedures in station operations.
• Develop and implement operational goals, schedules, and improvement plans.
• Coordinate with internal departments and external partners for projects, events, and production needs.
• Monitor budgets, expenditures, and purchasing; prepare cost information and spending priorities.
• Represent KVCR at community events and support fundraising and public awareness activities.

Skills

Broadcast operations

Staff supervision

Budgeting basics

FCC regulations

Program development

Scheduling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, communications, marketing, broadcast and/or journalism

Equivalency provision for degree/experience

Job description

Job description pending November 12th, 2026 board approval

Class specifications are intended to present a descriptive list of the range of duties performed by employees in the class. Specifications are not intended to reflect all duties performed within the job; however, any additional duties will be reasonably related to this class

SUMMARY DESCRIPTION

Under the direction of the appropriate administrator, manages and coordinates the day-to-day operations of KVCR and assigned broadcast, production, programming, digital, and technical activities. Implements established operational plans, priorities, and procedures and provides supervision and work direction to assigned personnel.

Note: This position is contingent on grant funding.

REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES

The following duties are typical for this classification.

1. Manages and coordinates day-to-day activities related to public media and station operations in accordance with established plans, procedures, priorities, and service standards.
2. Coordinates day-to-day operational support for KVCR’s television and radio broadcast licenses and associated digital platforms.
3. Supervises, schedules, trains, and provides day-to-day work direction to assigned volunteers, student workers, interns, and temporary personnel involved in station operations and production activities.
4. Participates in the selection, onboarding, training, scheduling, and evaluation of assigned staff, volunteers, student workers, interns, and temporary personnel in accordance with District policies and procedures
5. Coordinates with internal departments, production and technical staff, vendors, community partners, and other stakeholders regarding assigned station operations, projects, events, and production needs.
6. Assesses day-to-day programming, production, scheduling, and operational needs and coordinates assigned activities in accordance with approved station plans, Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") requirements, station standards, and established priorities
7. Coordinates and supports day-to-day television, radio, digital, and related broadcast operations in accordance with applicable FCC rules and regulations, station procedures, and established operational requirements.
8. Participates in the development and implementation of operational goals, procedures, schedules, work plans, and activities for station operations; identifies operational needs and recommends changes or improvements to the appropriate administrator.
9. Identifies operational issues, analyzes alternatives, recommends solutions, and implements approved actions in support of station goals, operational efficiency, and service quality.
10. Gathers and analyzes operational, audience, scheduling, production, and workflow data to support decision-making, reporting, resource planning, and continuous improvement.
11. Assists with development and administration assigned operating budgets; monitors expenditures and purchasing activities, identified staffing, production, technology, and equipment needs, prepares cost information, and recommends spending priorities.
12. Attends conferences, meetings, trainings, and industry events to remain current on public media operations and emerging practices; evaluates information and recommends or implements approved operational and programming improvements.
13. Coordinates and supports community service programming and operations of the television channels to support high-quality public media services for Inland Southern California and other audiences served by KVCR.
14. Coordinates with development, fundraising, membership, community engagement, and station personnel to support special programs, events, pledge activities, fundraising activities, and related operational needs.
15. Anticipates, prevents and resolves difficult and/or sensitive inquiries, conflicts and complaints.
16. Monitors assigned station, production, and broadcast activities for compliance with established quality standards, operational procedures, and regulatory requirements; identifies deficiencies and recommends or implements appropriate corrective action within assigned authority.
17. Compiles audience, operational, performance, and other assigned data to support station planning and reporting; assists staff, producers, volunteers, and other assigned personnel in applying approved station standards, procedures, and brand guidelines
18. Prepares operational updates, project information, reports, and recommendations for review by assigned administrators, managers, and cross-functional partners
19. Prepares and maintains required reports, licenses, applications, public file materials, and other regulatory documentation; monitors applicable deadlines and coordinates or assists with required submissions to governmental and public media entities
20. Represents KVCR at assigned community events, meetings, and outreach activities and supports station fundraising and public awareness activities as directed.
21. Pe rforms related duties as required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

The following generally describes the knowledge and ability required to enter the job and/or be learned within a short period of time in order to successfully perform the assigned duties.

Knowledge of:

• Television/radio/digital production and broadcast operations.
• Principles of supervision, training and performance evaluation.
• Principles and practices of budgeting and purchasing, expenditure tracking, and basic fiscal administration.
• Principles and practices of satellite broadcasting procedures and protocols.
• Principles and practices of program development and administration.
• Broadcast scheduling and On-Air procedures.
• The resources, principles, and methods of researching program topics.
• Working knowledge of print, online, digital, social, on-air production terms and processes.
• Principles and practices of the media industry and the nonprofit sector.
• Station, workflows, systems and operating procedures and processes.
• Pertinent federal, state, and local laws, codes, and regulations; including
• FCC rules and regulations pertaining to station operations.

• Public media licensing, reporting, public file, and compliance documentation requirements applicable to assigned station operations.
• Digital, streaming, and emerging technologies.
• Office procedures, methods, and equipment including computers and media applicable software and media systems.

Ability to:

• Coordinate and manage multiple concurrent station operations, projects, schedules, and production activities.
• Supervise, train, schedule, and provide work direction to assigned personnel.
• Coordinate effectively across programming, production, technical, digital, development, and administrative.
• Apply established station, broadcast, brand, operational, and regulatory standards.
• Analyze operational problems, evaluate alternatives, recommend solutions, and implement approved actions
• Exercise sound independent judgment within established policies, procedures, priorities, and delegated authority.
• Adapt to changing operational priorities and meet critical deadlines in a fast-paced public media environment.
• Interpret and apply applicable FCC regulations and other public media requirements related to assigned functions.
• Demonstrate sensitivity to, and understanding of, the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students and personnel, including those with physical or learning disabilities.
• Demonstrate professionalism, fairness, and honesty in all aspects of the performance of duties.
• Develop interpersonal relationships with a diverse audience.
• Promote an organizational culture that values creativity, open communication, diversity, and tolerance.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.
• Plan and organize work to meet changing priorities and deadlines.
• Meet critical deadlines while working with frequent interruptions.
• Prepare clear operational reports, recommendations, schedules, records, and correspondence.

Education and Experience Guidelines

Any combination of education and experience that would likely provide the required knowledge and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be:

Education:

• A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major course work preferably in business, communications, marketing, broadcast and/or journalism.

Experience:

• Three (3) years of increasingly responsible experience in public media, broadcasting, television, radio, digital media, production, station operations, or a closely related field, including at least one (1) year of lead, supervisory, administrative, or program coordination responsibility.
• Demonstrated sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, general identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students.

Equivalency Provision:

• In the absence of a Bachelor’s degree, an Associate’s degree or completion of sixty (60) semester units from an accredited college or university with major coursework in business, communications, marketing, media, broadcasting, journalism, or a related field, and five (5) years of increasingly responsible experience in public media, broadcasting, television, radio, digital media, production, station operations, or a closely related field, including at least two (2) years of lead, supervisory, administrative, or program coordination responsibility, is qualifying.

Desired Qualifications: (desired qualifications must be displayed throughout application material or supplemental questions)

• Ten(10) years of experience in accounting and finance practices
• Ten(10) years of experience in revenue projections, cost comparisons, and spending trends
• Experience with budget management software
• Two(2) years experience working in finance at a PBS or NPR station

Equivalency Process for Confidential/Supervisors, Classified Administrators and Educational Administrators:

The San Bernardino Community College promotes the effort to ensure that their supervisors and managers are administrators who can lead, organize, plan, and supervise; and who understand the needs of students, classified, faculty and the learning environment; and who value institutional governance based upon a genuine sharing of responsibility with faculty colleagues. The minimum qualifications for supervisors and administrators should help the District to ensure that it will select individuals who are competent to perform the kind of administrative responsibilities that administrators are normally required to assume, such as supervision, organizational planning, and budget development and administration. This equivalency process is designed to include exceptionally strong candidates who may have earned, in a variety of ways, the equivalent to a Masters Degree. Equivalency determinations shall be determined jointly by the President of the College or designee and the Vice Chancellor of Human Resources, or Designee. The criteria used in making the determination shall be reflected in the governing board’s action when employing the individual.

Confidential/Supervisors and Classified Administrators are required to meet the degree and experience minimum qualifications; however equivalency provisions are provided to allow education to supplant experience while also looking at equivalency for degree requirements. An applicant for a classified administrator/supervisor/confidential position that supervises non-academic departments may be determined to have equivalency based on the following ways. This list is not all inclusive:

• A substantial number of years of community college level (10-20 years)
• A substantial number of years in the related industry (10-20 years).
• Evidence of experience and skill supervising staff.
• Evidence of experience in budget development and administration

The conditions herein are representative of those that must be met