Student Media - UWave Radio Program Director (2025-26)

Description

Description: 

UW Bothell offers student employment opportunities to help prepare students by providing practical work experience.  Students are provided professional development and mentoring to develop skills to support post-graduation employment preparation and success. 

Duties & Responsibilities: 

Student Employee: 

• Respond to and incorporate feedback from supervisor/advisor and peers  
• Collaborate and coordinate with other SEA orgs and campus partners  
• Participate in budget tracking and co-managing organization’s finances  
• Evaluate and improve the effectiveness of your work 
• Develop, distribute, and analyze assessments for programs, events, and initiatives 
• Assist with writing and presenting Services and Activities Fee (SAF) and Student Technology Fee (STF) budget proposals  
• Assist with projects and tasks assigned by supervisor 

Student Leader: 

• Contribute respectfully to our diverse and inclusive work environment at UWB and the Student Engagement & Activities (SEA) department  
• Contribute to the SEA mission 
• Perform outreach to students about SEA programs, events, and services to promote student involvement and provide current information about campus resources 
• Maintain shared work spaces with other student leaders, incl. supplies management, rotating cleaning and organizational duties, prompt reporting of issues, and more 
• Maintain active, timely communication with supervisor and team  
• Connect with the UW Bothell student body to find out what different students want and/or need  
• Maintain documents and folders in a shared digital filing system, on a student engagement platform, social media, and other technology 
• Perform clerical duties including documenting and updating processes, data entry, maintaining work calendars, and scheduling meetings 
• Support and staff SEA events and operations as needed. This includes but is not limited to: New Student Orientation, Welcome Week, SEA org support, and large scale campus events 
• Represent the SEA department at events and as requested by supervisor 

Support the recruitment of future student leaders during the annual hiring cycle (spring quarter)

Position Overview:

The UWave Program Director drives the content and radio programming of UWave Radio. Daily responsibilities include: overseeing diverse creative content curation (music, podcasts, live shows, PSAs, promotions, on-air and recorded content), planning and scheduling the daily UWave programming, managing the content archives, monitoring and analyzing audience feedback, ratings, and other analytics to ensure UWave meets current trends and needs of UWB community, and supporting both aspiring and experienced content creators (radio shows, musicians, podcast hosts, etc.) in the development and publication of their content.  

This position works closely with the UWave Station Manager and Studio Engineer to make decisions on content to stream and/or publish through the UWave