WBEZ-FM 91.5

Events

• Collaborate with the Senior Producer to plan and execute a dynamic slate of annual events including ticketed events produced by Chicago Public Media, as well supporting brand activations at partner events.
• Coordinate event logistics, including talent and venue booking, staffing, volunteer coordination, and on-site execution.
• Support the Senior Producer in maintaining workflows, production protocols, and tracking systems across all events.
• Ensure seamless event staff management and on-site oversight.
• Develop and execute comprehensive marketing strategies for events across email, social, digital, on-air, and external partnerships.
• Oversee the creation of marketing assets, ensuring consistency in messaging, visuals, and branding.
• Collaborate with internal teams to ensure alignment in event communications and promotion.
• Track and measure KPIs including ticket sales, audience engagement, and campaign performance, providing post-event reports and insights to stakeholders.

Events & Marketing Specialist

Journalist

• Develops original and creative story ideas
• Develops sources, investigates and researches to gather information for a mix of daily and enterprise stories
• Reports and writes breaking news, news features, enterprise pieces both independently and on assignment
• Produce high-profile work that contributes something new, compelling and/or useful to the public conversation
• Regularly meet deadlines and communicate with managers, editors and colleagues, and help improve audience relationships, workplace culture, editorial excellence and impact
• Works with the audience and visual teams to develop video, infographics, and other interactive elements that engage both digital and print readers — with some of these elements to be used to promote stories on social media
• Works with the audio team to conduct audio interviews for short daily newscast items
• Collaborates with audio hosts and daily talk shows by participating in taped or live interviews about immigration stories

Immigration Reporter

Analyst

• Maintain relationships, open trouble tickets, work to resolve issues, test enhancements and be available outside working hours with vendor support staff for cloud applications
• Develop and maintain system documentation, user guides and training materials
• Stay updated on current technologies
• Configure, test, and implement new applications, modules, and system enhancements
• Analyze and document business processes and user requirements to improve application functionality
• Work with business users, IT Staff, and external Vendors to identify organizational needs for new applications, changes in functionality, to existing applications
• Provide user training and technical support for applications
• Manage/lead projects related to application development, migration or optimization
• Responsible for supporting applications users’ company-wide, internally, and externally
• Manage application upgrades, patches and integrations with other systems
• Set up, maintain, and troubleshoot integrations and file transfers between applications and third-party vendors

Applications Analyst

• Develops original and creative story ideas.
• Develops sources, investigates and researches to gather information, images and audio.
• Prepares and presents original reporting for news spots, reports and program segments.
• Reports, writes and presents breaking news, news features and enterprise and investigative pieces.
• Makes regular appearances on Chicago Public Media platforms.
• Participates in editorial process.
• Voices stories, and depending on assignment, may voice program elements or briefings for on-demand distribution.
• Depending on assignment, may contribute to the execution of live events or broadcasts.
• Performs production duties to ensure the successful execution of shows, newscasts, programs, podcasts or other platforms (e.g., research, booking guests, creating web content, updating social media accounts, writing and producing interviews, etc.).
• Gathers, edits, and mixes audio or multimedia elements.
• Depending on assignment, may contribute to the execution of live events or broadcasts.

Reporter/Producer 1

• Cover the Illinois Legislature for WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times and provide daily news and enterprise work for Illinois Public Radio
• Based in Springfield, working from the Capitol; occasionally report from Chicago and collaborate with other reporters
• Report, write and produce stories for broadcast and digital platforms, including daily news items, feature stories, projects, podcasts, on-air discussions and live events
• Collaborate with an editor and colleagues to research, pitch, conceptualize, report and produce stories
• Generate story and project ideas for multiple platforms
• Participate in special projects and perform other station duties as necessary
• Develop big-picture approaches to covering issues while executing the many small tasks involved in reporting
• Represent Chicago Public Media to internal and external audiences

Bureau Reporter

Platform Engineer

• Design, build, and maintain pipelines and tools to ensure organizational data flows reliably and is ready for use in CRM, ESP, donation, and analytics systems.
• Build and maintain ETL pipelines using Python and SQL to move data between internal systems and external platforms (e.g., CRMs, ESPs).
• Ensure data reliability and integrity across systems and develop automated validation and alerting.
• Troubleshoot issues across platforms and contribute to root cause analysis and long-term solutions.
• Collaborate with team members and stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
• Participate in monitoring, performance tuning, and refactoring of existing data flows.
• Help maintain and extend internal tools that support data operations and stakeholder reporting needs.
• Document systems, processes, and logic to ensure knowledge sharing and continuity.

Events & Marketing Specialist

Immigration Reporter

Applications Analyst

Reporter/Producer 1

Bureau Reporter

Data Platform Engineer