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• Operate in a manner that generates the
  most profit, while maintaining a positive and productive attitude among
  station employees.
• Ensure accurate and timely monthly
  reporting to board on the performance of the station.
• Develop and present to the board a 5-year
  strategic business plan for the station, which will in turn be approved by
  the board.
• Be in charge of ensuring that the station
  is always in compliance with the different media regulating statutory
  bodies like UCC, URA, and Media Council among others.
• He/ she must make the customer happy, get
  your people involved and get rid of department wastes and unnecessary
  expenditures.
• Must answer to a higher Authority to see
  that corporate goals or projections for the station are met and ideally
  exceeded.
• See to it that the station policy is
  implemented, and ensure against confusion, misunderstanding and possible
  unfair labor practices, which typically impede operations, a station
  policy book, must be distributed to employees. It must contain the
  station’s position on; hiring, termination, salaries, raises, promotions,
  leave vacations, benefits etc. Job description, a statement of the
  station’s programming philosophy with an explanation of the formalist
  employees.
• Must ensure that every new employee reads
  understands and become familiar with the station policy before they start
  working.
• Hiring and retaining competent staff,
  motivating them properly, inspiring people failure to do so might fail the
  station from reaching its potential.
• Work with the CFO, in controlling the
  station’s finances (he allocates and approves spending in the depth).
• Work closely with responsible heads of
  department to ensure that the product the station is offering is the best
  it can be. An excellent Air product attracts viewers and viewers attract
  sponsors. This can only be attained when all departments work in unison
  and up to their potential. A station’s success is linked to customer/
  viewer satisfaction. “If you don’t have customer desires or below the
  standards they will go somewhere else and generally will not return.”
• The Station manager will stay informed and
  keep an eye on the Station’s further financial projections based on data
  that includes the financial implications of prospective predicted events.
  An effective manager anticipates change and develops appropriate plans to
  deal with it.

• The ideal candidate should hold Bachelor’s
  degree in broadcast journalism or other related field
• At least five to ten years’ practical experience
  in the business
• A sales and marketing background is an
  added advantage since the general manager’s major objective is making
  profits through selling airtime.
• Formal training, preferably in operations,
  sales and programming.
• A genuine affection for the Radio / TV business
• A strong desire to succeed.
• Undoubtable intra and inter personal
  skills
• Competitive Intellectual and strategic
  thinking abilities
• Proper training and experience in
  broadcasting operations.
• A good track record.
• Ability to make decisions and solve problems
  by analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best
  solution and solve problems
• Broad knowledge and understanding of the
  TV broadcast rule which is time=money.
• A background of both a news and program
  experience.
• A marketing, Internet and
  financial-management experience
• A clear understanding and appreciate what
  goes into preparing and presenting the on air products.
• Is expected to know more and do more than
  anyone else and rightfully so, since he/she stands to gain most.
• A keen sense of what is “good business”
  humility to take the blame in bad times and to give staff credit in good
  times, fairness and passion for all, responsiveness to situations (not
  reactionary) passion for the industry, recognition and knowledge of staff
  (known by first name) and ability to keep personal problems out of the
  station.

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