Vice President, Operations
$160,000–$180,000 year
On-sitePittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Job Summary
Translate decisions into executable operational plans, assigning ownership, budgets, and realistic timelines to major facilities initiatives and cross-functional projects. Lead structured reviews of physical records to guide destruction, digitization, and archival workflows while managing vendor contracts for construction, maintenance, and site improvements. Coach emerging leaders to strengthen judgment, planning discipline, and independent execution across WQED's evolving operations. This Pittsburgh-based role requires regular on-site presence at the Oakland facility and the tower site, with potential fractional or contract engagement depending on organizational needs. You will build systems for project tracking, risk escalation, and accountability to support WQED's transformation into a multi-platform community resource.
Required Qualifications
- Significant experience leading operations, facilities, logistics, project management, administration, engineering support, military operations, construction management, or another environment involving complex people, systems, vendors, assets, and deadlines
- A record of leading complex projects involving multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
- Experience supervising, coaching, and developing people at different stages of their careers, including emerging managers and leaders
- Ability to influence and improve execution across departments without assuming ownership of their substantive work
- Strong project-management discipline and the ability to turn broad objectives into specific assignments, milestones, schedules, and decisions
- Experience selecting, coordinating, and holding outside vendors and contractors accountable
- Comfort managing budgets, reviewing proposals, evaluating tradeoffs, and approving work and invoices within established authority
- The ability to establish order where processes are incomplete, responsibilities overlap, or institutional knowledge is poorly documented
- Ability to help leaders define meaningful outcomes, measure progress, and strengthen accountability without creating unnecessary bureaucracy
- Strong judgment about when to act independently, involve subject-matter experts, or escalate an issue
- Clear, direct written and verbal communication
- High standards for reliability, discretion, accountability, documentation, and followthrough
- The ability to earn trust across technical, creative, administrative, and executive teams
- Willingness to spend significant time on-site and visit WQED facilities as operational needs require
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in public media or broadcasting
- Experience with facilities, construction, engineering environments, regulated operations, government or military service, emergency management, logistics, or similarly complex operating environments
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