Re: request for agenda item for personnel meeting
Bill Crosier
"Official" Pacifica job descriptions for GMs and PDs are on the list of documents we've requested from Ahmad through Arlene. She requested that he provide them to us by Tue. of this week, at my request, so we'd have time to review them before tonight's meeting. I have not seen them yet, but just sent another reminder. Assuming we get that, I don't think we'll need to form a work group to create them, but if not then we may need a work group for either that or to send periodic reminders.
Re: GM for WBAI, is it now in Arlene's lap? I assume your search committee and LSB don't need to do anything else?
Also, congratulations on your election.
Bill
At 9:05 AM -0400 10/28/10, Carolyn Birden wrote:
>Dear All,
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>As you may know, WBAI is supposed to be opening a search for a program director, as
>Tony Bates, now serving quite competently in that role, is only interim. The Management
>Search Committee at the station was formed to search for both a GM and a PD: we have
>completed the former task and sent our recommendations to the ED, but cannot begin
>the PD search because we do not have a job description for the PD that is "official," that is,
>one that has the HR Director's blessing or that is on the books as an official job
>description for the role of the PD.
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>The new LSB at WBAI may well decide to form a new committee, etc., and that may be
>a good idea or not, depending on how evenhandedly a search is conducted. But new committee or old, we need a job description for a PD! The current committee could be working on this, on identifying advertising venues, and so on, while awaiting the go-ahead from the new LSB and from the HRD.
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>I have sent the HRDirector a copy of the attached, which is what we used last time around (a long time ago), but think the Foundation should have a generic job description suitable for advertisements for any station, and perhaps less detailed than this one. Then individual search committees can add on specs suitable for their own stations. Would you (the Personnel Committee) consider creating a work group to come up with a job description for the Foundation's PDs that could be used by all stations, and then kept as the basis for an evaluation process?
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>I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on this.
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>Carolyn Birden
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Carolyn Birden
If you do form a work group, WBAI has a great evaluation process for PD - we actually tried to use it to evaluate our former PD, but the results were hijacked by a supporter of the PD and ended up in her apartment, never to be seen again. However, the template and questions and protocols still exist, and could even be used to work backwards and construct a job description if necessary.
Another source of info is the hiring letter signed by each new PD - it should contain detailed items, deadlines, responsibilities.
Yes, we are awaiting the ED's decision on a GM.
And thanks for the congrats: mixed feelings these days about jumping into the fray again, I must say.
Carolytn
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