POSITION OPENINGS

Promotions Coordinator:

The Promotions Coordinator is an integral part of the radio station, assisting both the advertising sales and programming sectors with the implementation of on-air, on-line and on-site promotions. Acting as internal support to the Marketing Manager, this position will facilitate programming, marketing and sales campaigns to the highest level, achieving client satisfaction and brand awareness in the marketplace.

Duties will include, but not limited to:
• Manage sales promotion requests including securing department approvals, coordinating fulfillment elements and scheduling calendar.
• Manage on-air contests including promotional copy points for on-air staff, winner prize sheets, prize inventory and fulfillment to winner.
• Develop and maintain Event Coordinator and Intern staff.
• Facilitate required paperwork for requests with record labels involving product & contests.
• Provide promotional reports required by accounting.
• Track and manage promotional inventory including all on-air, on-site and online prizing.
• Interface with traffic to provide required production paperwork.
• Manage website content.
• Update and manage loyal listener database.
• Draft proposals for promotional partners (concerts & programming events).
• Execute on-site activities, overseeing coordinators at concerts, programming events and client appearances.
• Work with Client Service Managers on client re-caps.
• Oversee all promotional assets (tables, tents, prize mechanisms, banners, etc) and vehicle maintenance.
Reporting:
• Primary: Marketing Manager
Education/experience and skills required:
• Three to five years experience executing promotions and events.
• Bachelor’s degree or one to three years related experience and/or training. Radio experience is a plus.
Core competencies required:
• Can- Do attitude a must
• Ability to multi task and work under deadline
• Supreme organizational skills
• Leadership skills a must
• Excellent follow-through and initiative
• Resourcefulness
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong computer proficiency-Excel, Word, etc – a must
• Public Relations experience a plus
• Strong, proven analytical abilities a plus

Apply:
Email resume and cover letter to portlandjobs@entercom.com and type Promotions Coordinator in the subject line, or mail to HR Entercom Portland, 0700 SW Bancroft St. Portland, OR 97239

ENTERCOM PORTLAND is an Equal Opportunity Employer

The pool is now open for bets on how long it will take for someone to reply in this thread with a comment on the current radio employment environment. I give it an hour.

Why not raise the stakes and bet on who it will be?

Tick tock.

$20 on Roger

> $20 on Roger

That was too easy!!

Wonder what the salary range is on that one?

uh-oh....they left out the part being faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locamotive and can leap tall buildings in a single bound

does this mean the person who bet on roger lost...or is my comment not defined as "the current radio employment environment"

Yup, I lost.

HEY!!!!!

I'll take that bet

pay up.

I'm truly hurt, that you have formed such an opinion of me.

How 'bout those Mets?

So is this thread done now?

all that for $28K per year...nice!

Regardless of the pay, it IS a job in marketing, and a great way to get started in radio, possibly as a way to move into sales.

Lets be real. Most people that get a job as a promotion coordinator stay in the promotion department until its time to cut the budget.

Probably also worth saying that in this climate, it's a job anywhere, and the pay is more than $0, which is what a lot of people are making right now. For those keeping track, the Oregonian Classifieds this last Sunday had about four pages of want ads.

Is one of the requirements being able to correctly spell locomotive?

Pat O'Day was on KJR (AM) yesterday for two hours telling his old stories and otherwise celebrating his 50th year on Seattle Radio.

It was clear by the stories that todays promo directors are not even close to the same league and generally have no idea how it was once done and how it still should be done.

With a few exceptions todays promo people are basically tent pitchers and banner hangers, or in charge of same.

Not to say these are bad people, they just dont get what the job is really historically about because there is such a large time disconnect between how is was done and how it is now done.

I would encourage anyone in the promo end of the business today to listen to Pat...

Actually everyone in radio today should, just to get an idea what it was like in the day...

audio available on demand at 950KJR.com

Are not most people in promotions working part time for min. wage???? These days.

To be fair to today's promotion people, the job was probably just a little easier back when stations had something worthy of promotion. I don't think there are many stations today you can say that about.

"...they just don't get what the job is really historically about because there is such a large time disconnect between how it was done and how it is now done." (Spelling and punctuation corrected)

So what? The job changed. Typewriter repair folks are now fixing printers and copiers.

Note that the job opening is for "promotions coordinator" and not Promotions Director, and that the old-school duties include:

Execute on-site activities, overseeing coordinators at concerts, programming events and client appearances, and Oversee all promotional assets (tables, tents, prize mechanisms, banners, etc) and vehicle maintenance.

Note how many other tasks are to be done, some of which didn't exist even 15 years ago.

Radio has changed, but the folks that aren't on the air are just as talented, and doing what several people used to do "back in the day."

Perhaps you'd like to comment on what minorities and women did in radio in 1959?

I was just commenting on how far this area of radio has slipped in the last few decades.

Nothing personal against the people who now sit in the chair...

"Not to say these are bad people"

Looks like my "bet" was a safe one. Sure enough, this thread has turned into what I expected - the same old discussions about how the business sucks today.

My only mistake was the timing - it took a few hours - not an hour - for the same old discussions on the radio industry to reappear.

Wanna know when this thread will be done? When it's decided not to rehash the same arguments ad infinitum.

Pat O'Day downloads here (to save the trouble of searching around the KJR website).

Kent--You are correct. We have seen many a career started in the promotions dept. And I have seen many hard working people in promotions. It is a entry level job. I wish the winner the best. Hopeing they succeed, having a nice career in radio. Yes the world has changed a lot in the last few years. Hope everyone back in PDX is doing well. Regards Steve.

At the risk of being criticized for trying to get in the last word...

I'm in my fourth decade of working in radio, but I can't speak for the 60's.

The tasks of the promotions department have only increased, not slipped.

"The tasks of the promotions department have only increased, not slipped."

Hi Kent, please allow me to close:

The broadcast industry has consolidated resulting in the loss of jobs, the loss of diversity in ownership, the loss of localism, the loss of quality programming, the loss of respect in the community, the loss of advertising market share and the loss of importance in the overall mass communications industry. The staff of a radio cluster contains fewer people with less time to do more work at lower pay. As a result, the tasks of the promotions department have only increased. It's the entire industry that's slipped.

The main point to remember, whether the job pays less than it used to, whether it's more or less work as it once was, there will be stacks of resumes and applications for this or any other job in this business. As always, most are more than willing to get rid of their higher paying jobs in other fields to get into the business. That will never, ever change. If that wasn't the case, than this page of postings would be much shorter.

While it's true that "The staff of a radio cluster contains fewer people with less time to do more work..." there were no computers or "Marketing" back in the day.

Before computers there were giant card reading IBM business class machines that were programmed and generated operating logs, so although they weren't computers, per se, there have been mechanisms to assist in some of the tedium now handled by PC's.
These machines predate my first job in radio in the early 70's.
I believe these machines made their appearance in the 60's.
Before that, i.e. the 50's (if that's what you mean by "back in the day") there was a lot less radio since the FM dial had not yet exploded.

As far as marketing, there has always been a visibility promotions agenda usually handled by programming and there has always been advertiser marketing handled by sales. The creation of a separate marketing staff didn't really flourish until duopoly hit the scene in the 80's.

Kent--The first station I worked for in Eugene. They ran a mimeograph of the log and then hand wrote in the spots. They used a file box with 3 x 5 cards,for each account.

I was only trying to say that the Pat O'Day interview showed what it was like back in the day for those that don't remember.

The magnitude of the promotions and the thinking behind some of them was different than now.

i was not trying to harp on the reasons, we all know them.

Just saying here is a good chance to hear from the horses mouth what it was like.

maybe the sheer creative genius will inspire some kid with a promo gig to think bigger.

There was a time when the pd, sales manager and production director created the station promotions. This was always with input from the on-air talent and sales staff. It wasn't always the smoothest way to develop promotions, but in the end the station and client both benefited. Imagine, getting input from the people creating the product you're trying to sell!!

This is the same job that has seen three people come and go within a year and a half. You couldn't pay me enough to touch this one. Too much work, too many unpaid hours of overtime and they expect you to do it all with a smile and no help from sales people or management.