Employment – Education Reporter

PBS KVIE has an exciting opportunity to join our creative, talented, and mission-driven team as an Education Reporter. This new position plays a critical role in PBS KVIE's efforts to produce high-quality, impactful news content across digital platforms that engages and informs our community. The Sacramento region is home to nearly 400,000 public school students, and our Education Reporter will serve a vital audience of parents and educators in some of Northern California’s largest and most dynamic school districts.

If you value public media, consider joining our PBS KVIE team whose mission is to inspire you to explore the world and connect with your community through the integrity of public media.

PBS KVIE's Ideal Team Player:

• supports our mission to inspire viewers to explore the world and connect with our community through the integrity of public media.
• celebrates diversity, people, and cultures.
• values a culture of team spirit and collaboration.
• embraces innovation and creativity.
• strives to do more and be more.

• Produces consistent and compelling content about how decisions made by school districts in the Sacramento region directly impact the lives of students and their families.
• Contributes to morning newsletters, with potential to produce an education-specific newsletter.
• Produces content across multiple platforms, including online stories and social media.
• Plays a critical watchdog role on the Sacramento region’s school districts, with a focus on the region’s largest districts.
• Covers, as needed, the Sacramento region’s two- and four-year colleges, with an emphasis on students and their academic and cultural experiences.
• In addition to daily news content, produces compelling, deeply-reported enterprise stories that provide context to the issues defining education in the Sacramento region.
• Moderates or presents at public-facing events, both in-person and broadcast, focused on education issues and the audiences they affect.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Must be mission-driven and passionate about the role of public media.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
• Effective and proactive communication skills.
• Detail-oriented with the ability to multi-task, prioritize, and manage time effectively.
• Ability to collaborate and work effectively with diverse stakeholders as a team.
• Positively and professionally represents PBS KVIE throughout the community.
• Familiarity and experience with training materials, academic approaches and evaluation structures, ideally in the journalism field.
• Ability to coach contributors on digital-first storytelling formats for the news services’ website and social media.
• Strong editorial judgment with a commitment to journalistic integrity.
• Deep familiarity with the Sacramento region or Northern California’s concerns, communities, and landscape.

• BA/BS degree in Journalism or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of three years of journalism experience.
• Professional project management experience preferred.

• Must have a valid California driver’s license and meet insurance standards.
• Available to work evenings and weekends as needed.
• Travel required.

We are committed to diversity. Our goal is to build and foster a culture where open-minded and varied perspectives are encouraged and celebrated. Diversity is an integral part of how we function as an organization.

We believe all voices should be heard and represented through a lens of authenticity. We represent and serve Northern California's communities by producing content and programming that inspires and connects.

We value our team. We recognize our strong and cohesive collective helps us to grow as a public media and community leader. Creating an environment where employees feel safe and supported is vital to our success.

PBS KVIE EEO Policy: We are an equal opportunity employer and make employment decisions based on merit. Our practice is to hire the best available person for every job. Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race (including traits historically associated with race, such as hairstyles and textures), color, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, reproductive health decision-making, or related medical condition), gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin (including immigration and/or citizenship status), ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition including genetic characteristics, military or veteran status, political activities/affiliation, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. We also prohibit unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics or is associated with a person who has been or is perceived as having any of those characteristics. PBS KVIE is an equal opportunity employer, and strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination by any employee, including managers, supervisors, and co-workers. All such discrimination is unlawful.

Any applicant or employee who requires an accommodation to perform the essential functions of the job must contact a department manager or human resources to request specific accommodations. We will engage in a timely, good faith, interactive process to determine the need for a reasonable accommodation. If a reasonable accommodation exists and will not impose an undue hardship on the Company, an accommodation will be made.

PBS KVIE Background Check Policy: PBS KVIE conducts criminal background checks for all new employees (including credit and DMV background checks when appropriate for the position).

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE: Due to the high volume, we will not accept or respond to phone/email inquiries. Candidates will receive an electronic acknowledgment after receipt of their online application. Qualified candidates will be contacted for a phone screening.