Director of Digital Content

WUNC Radio provides quality news, information and entertainment programming to a broad listening audience that includes North Carolina, the United States and the world. WUNC serves North Carolina from Greensboro to the Outer Banks through a network of seven stations.

Position Summary:

As part of the Senior Leadership team, the Digital Content Director will shape strategic and editorial direction of the organization, ensuring alignment with WUNC's mission while also overseeing budgeting, contracting, project development, and community engagement for all digital content.

Position priorities include:

Development and strategic growth of current podcasts, programs, and initiatives with a focus on sustainability.
Build community through WUNC's podcasts, digital content, and Youth Reporting Institute (events, partnerships, engagement)
Create KPIs for WUNC's digital content and build a strategic vision for new audience discovery.
Ideation and creation of new digital content.

The Digital Content Director supervises the content team and is responsible for creating a vision for WUNC's digital content creation and distribution with a focus on podcasts, develop a multi-platform digital content strategy, and foster efficient workflow and production systems for long-term sustainability. They will also champion the expansion of WUNC's Youth Reporting Institute, building a holistic program within WUNC that serves the next generation of storytellers and audiences.

The Director will actively engage with the community, fostering relationships with new and existing audiences. The Director will be committed to community engagement and will work closely with the Director of Community Partnerships and the rest of the content team to bring diverse stories into our podcasting platforms and engage with community partners and other creators to build a community around the content that we create.