Position Details Position Summary Position Title WERG General Manager Posting Number Division School of Communication & the Arts Department Col.

Humanities,Ed.&SocScience Location Erie, Pa Position Summary Assignments are received from the station's Operations Manager, who is an employee of Gannon University in the School of Communication and the Arts. Duties will encompass both administrative and technical skills.

• Career & Self-Development. The General Manager will utilize this position as a professional stepping-stone to gain employment in the diverse field of digital media. As such, gaining fluency in all aspects of station operations (personnel, legal, budgeting, tech, equipment usage and maintenance) is an essential experiential component of the position.
• Leadership. The General Manager will be guiding several dozen students and must interact on an individual basis with each constituent. Media operations have a multitude of interacting components and students have diverse interests that must be discovered and developed.
• Communication. The General Manager is the visible face of the radio station, so they function as a "bridge": responsible for developing and maintaining collaborative relationships with students, faculty, staff, and the administration. At 90.5 WERG in the Center for Communication and the Arts, the General Manager's standard duties include (but are not limited to):
• Maintaining regular office hours in

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on a weekly basis, keeping in communication with student constituents at the radio station.

• Programming station logs with Selector software
• Ensuring new music, promos, PSA's, and other audio elements are screened for airplay
• Recruiting students for airshifts and providing constructive feedback
• Administering the successful promotion and airing of the Sonic Sunrise morning show, including booking guests
• Meeting with the Operations Manager at least once a week.
• Planning, organizing, and leading all weekly WERG staff Rundown Meetings (typically Tuesdays at 11am) for the purposes of strategic planning across all managerial platforms at 90.5 WERG (Programming, News, Production, Promotions, Social Media, Underwriting, Sports, Staff Training, and others as required).
• Grooming future replacements for the WERG management staff.
• Delegating duties downward as far as possible; filling-in when needed; offering advice and guidance to managers and staff.
• Training staff as to proper station procedures and operations (also EAS and FCC regulations).
• Mediating disputes.
• Keeping student offices and the air studio clean and orderly.
• Planning, coordinating, and appearing at university-wide promotional appearances (Open House, student tours, etc.).
• Being a visible, active, engaged student manager and representative of 90.5 WERG for faculty, administration, staff, and students - both current and prospective. Required Qualifications
• Basic computer literacy skills: knowledge of applications like Office, Adobe Audition , and Wide Orbit (training in these and other essential software applications necessary to run WERG is part of the process of participating in the "learning laboratory" that is the radio station)
• Superior collaborative abilities
• The ability to think critically, taking theory from the classroom and synthesizing it into the experiential framework of a professional media operation
• Possession of a cellular phone
• Good academic standing
• A historical presence as part of the 90.5 WERG staff Preferred Qualifications Physical Demands N/A Posting Detail Information Number of Vacancies 1 Job Posting Open Date 09/03/2026 Job Posting Close Date 10/02/2026 Special Instructions to Applicants N/A Supplemental Questions Required fields are indicated with an asterisk (
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Applicant Documents Required Documents Resume Optional Documents Cover Letter Transcripts Letter of Recommendation Curriculum Vitae Media File Portfolio Teaching Statement