Partnerships & Events Strategy Lead

Nashville Public Radio; United States; On-site; USD 61,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) with employer match

PTO, holidays, and parental leave

Job summary

Nashville Public Radio is seeking a Director of Partnerships & Projects to bring structure and project management to how the team plans, coordinates, and delivers its work. You will lead cross-department initiatives, build partnerships, and shape promotional campaigns across on-air, digital, and live events.

The role requires hands-on event planning, budget awareness, sponsor relations, and the ability to motivate small teams in a fast-paced, community-focused nonprofit.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on, consumer-facing event planning, ideally with success in generating funding.
• Demonstrated hands-on history of coordinating all aspects of event planning such as production/staging, A/V, food & beverage, registration & ticketing, design & decor, speaker/talent management, stage management/ROS, on-site staffing & volunteers management.
• Experience with sponsor relations and fulfillment is a plus.
• Detail-oriented, sees the big picture and how individual smaller elements come together.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate internal team processes and projects, such as maintaining shared trackers and calendars for events and promotions.
• Serve as primary project manager for events and promotions, communicating across departments and building project teams.
• Maintain, identify, and develop new event opportunities and promotional partnership opportunities in the community.
• Communicate across departments to identify opportunities for event sponsorship, revenue, and member benefits.
• Coordinate concert Presents pitches with programming and underwriting.
• Coordinate on-air and online giveaways with promotional partners and internal staff.
• Develop and project-manage promotions plans with programming and production.
• Manage the production team for Live Sessions in Sonic Cathedral and offsite, averaging 50 sessions a year.
• Collaborate with development, sponsorships, and the Nashville Public Radio events team.

Skills

Event planning

Project management

Partnership development

Cross-department collaboration

Community relations

Tools

PromoSsuite

Asana

Eventbrite

Slack

Job description

Nashville Public Radio is seeking a Director of Partnerships & Projects to bring structure and project management to how the team plans, coordinates, and delivers its work. You will lead cross-department initiatives, build partnerships, and shape promotional campaigns across on-air, digital, and live events.

The role requires hands-on event planning, budget awareness, sponsor relations, and the ability to motivate small teams in a fast-paced, community-focused nonprofit.