Employment
At Texas Public Radio, our mission is to engage, inspire and inform, to empower our community to make life better. We are dedicated to being a vibrant community hub, delivering diverse programs, activities, and conversations that inform, uplift, and bring our audience together. Our vision is to become a beloved and trusted multimedia source, financially sustainable, and recognized throughout the region.
In our workplace, we celebrate diversity, equity, and inclusion. We strive to create an environment where differences are respected, and innovative ideas and perspectives are welcomed. We seek talented individuals from various backgrounds, experiences, cultures, beliefs, and lifestyles and are committed to their growth and development.
TPR is a dynamic, non-commercial, non-profit multimedia outlet, operating seven public radio stations that broadcast across 39 counties, covering a vast 40,000 square miles of South-Central and West Texas. Our flagship stations, KSTX and KPAC, primarily serve San Antonio and its neighboring counties, while our other stations reach the Hill Country, Highland Lakes, Del Rio, Gonzales, and the Midland/Odessa regions. With a broadcast reach of 3.6 million people and a digital presence accessible to anyone with broadband, TPR is committed to bringing quality content to our diverse and expansive audience.
Take a look at the job openings below to see how you can become an essential part of our mission.
Texas Public Radio currently has 5 open positions:
1. Corporate Support Account Executive
2. Assistant Director, Programming & Production
3. Human Resources Manager
4. Local Government & Communities Reporter
5. Early Childhood Education & Development Reporter
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1. TITLE: Corporate Support Account Executive
SUMMARY:
Texas Public Radio (TPR) is seeking a driven, relationship-focused, and results-oriented Corporate Support Account Executive to develop and manage corporate underwriting, sponsorship, and partnership opportunities that generate revenue while advancing the organization's public service mission.
Based in San Antonio, this Account Executive will cultivate and manage relationships with local and national businesses, identify new sponsorship opportunities, and create customized underwriting solutions across broadcast, digital, and event platforms. You'll partner with clients and internal stakeholders to align marketing objectives with Texas Public Radio's mission, programming, and audience while ensuring exceptional service, campaign success, and compliance with FCC underwriting guidelines.
Whether you're developing new business opportunities, strengthening long-term sponsor relationships, coordinating cross-functional campaigns, or helping organizations connect with audiences in meaningful ways, your work will generate vital support that enables Texas Public Radio to inform, educate, and serve the communities of Central and South Texas.
Click here for the full job description.
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2. TITLE: Assistant Director, Programming & Production
SUMMARY:
Texas Public Radio is seeking a strategic, collaborative, and technically skilled Assistant Director of Programming and Production to oversee the creative and technical execution of programming and production operations while fostering a cohesive, high-quality broadcast environment.
Based in San Antonio, this position oversees key functions including on-air sound, audio production, programming coordination, radio automation, traffic operations support, and on-air fundraising coaching. You’ll partner with leadership to unify the station’s on-air identity across Texas Public Radio’s news and classical networks, strengthen audience engagement, and ensure consistent, high-quality broadcast execution aligned with organizational standards and mission-driven goals.
In addition, this role co-manages radio automation systems, serves as a key backup for traffic operations, and provides hands-on technical and production leadership to support daily programming needs. You will help ensure seamless operational workflows, guide production best practices, and contribute to the continued evolution of Texas Public Radio’s programming strategy and public service mission.
Click here for the full job description.
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3. TITLE: Human Resources Manager
SUMMARY:
Texas Public Radio (TPR) is seeking a strategic, collaborative, and people-focused Human Resources Manager to lead and oversee all aspects of the organization's human resources function while fostering an engaging, inclusive, and high-performing workplace culture.
Based in San Antonio, this manager will oversee key HR functions, including recruitment, onboarding, training and development, succession planning, compensation management, benefits administration, compliance, employee relations, and performance management. You'll partner with leadership to develop and implement people strategies that support organizational goals, strengthen employee engagement, and ensure HR practices align with business objectives and strategic plan.
Whether you're guiding talent acquisition initiatives, shaping workplace culture, managing the internship and contractor programs, or ensuring compliance with employment laws and HR best practices, your work will help build and support a thriving workforce that enables the organization to achieve its mission.
Click here for the full job description.
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4. TITLE: Local Government & Communities Reporter
SUMMARY:
The Local Government & Communities Reporter, based in San Antonio, reports on local government, public policy and civic life with a focus on how decisions made by public officials shape people’s daily lives and communities.
This reporter tracks daily developments at City Hall, county government and across local government agencies while also producing public service journalism, breaking news coverage, important alerts, explanatory reporting and accountability journalism on issues including housing, growth, infrastructure, public safety, transportation, climate resilience and neighborhood change.
Texas Public Radio (TPR) is a mission-driven, award-winning, multi-platform news organization serving audiences across South Texas and beyond.
Click here for the full job description.
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5. TITLE: Early Childhood Education & Development Reporter
SUMMARY: This position is supported by a grant and is currently funded through March 31, 2028. Continuance of the position is dependent on securing funding for subsequent years.
Texas Public Radio (TPR) is seeking an enterprising, empathetic, and data-driven reporter to lead
our coverage of early childhood education and development (aka “the first five years”). Based in San Antonio, this reporter will cover the critical issues facing families, educators, and policymakers locally and statewide.
You will go beyond the daycare crisis headlines to explore the systemic forces—economic, political, and cultural—that shape the lives of Texas’ youngest residents, as well as their parents’ and caregivers’. Whether you are reporting on the 2026 Child Care Workforce Strategic Plan or visiting a home-based provider in the South Texas, your goal is to make the invisible visible.
We’re looking for a reporter excited to connect educators and caregivers of children ages 0–5 with
resources and people working to effect positive change in early childhood. We want to reveal what’s working and what’s not.
This reporter will produce original stories across radio, digital, and social platforms that inform,
engage, and elevate public understanding of how early childhood experiences impact long-term
success and community well-being.
Click here for the full job description.
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Texas Public Radio is an Equal Opportunity Employer. See our 2025-26 EEO report at this link.
In our workplace, we celebrate diversity, equity, and inclusion. We strive to create an environment where differences are respected, and innovative ideas and perspectives are welcomed. We seek talented individuals from various backgrounds, experiences, cultures, beliefs, and lifestyles and are committed to their growth and development.
TPR is a dynamic, non-commercial, non-profit multimedia outlet, operating seven public radio stations that broadcast across 39 counties, covering a vast 40,000 square miles of South-Central and West Texas. Our flagship stations, KSTX and KPAC, primarily serve San Antonio and its neighboring counties, while our other stations reach the Hill Country, Highland Lakes, Del Rio, Gonzales, and the Midland/Odessa regions. With a broadcast reach of 3.6 million people and a digital presence accessible to anyone with broadband, TPR is committed to bringing quality content to our diverse and expansive audience.
Take a look at the job openings below to see how you can become an essential part of our mission.
Texas Public Radio currently has 5 open positions:
1. Corporate Support Account Executive
2. Assistant Director, Programming & Production
3. Human Resources Manager
4. Local Government & Communities Reporter
5. Early Childhood Education & Development Reporter
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1. TITLE: Corporate Support Account Executive
SUMMARY:
Texas Public Radio (TPR) is seeking a driven, relationship-focused, and results-oriented Corporate Support Account Executive to develop and manage corporate underwriting, sponsorship, and partnership opportunities that generate revenue while advancing the organization's public service mission.
Based in San Antonio, this Account Executive will cultivate and manage relationships with local and national businesses, identify new sponsorship opportunities, and create customized underwriting solutions across broadcast, digital, and event platforms. You'll partner with clients and internal stakeholders to align marketing objectives with Texas Public Radio's mission, programming, and audience while ensuring exceptional service, campaign success, and compliance with FCC underwriting guidelines.
Whether you're developing new business opportunities, strengthening long-term sponsor relationships, coordinating cross-functional campaigns, or helping organizations connect with audiences in meaningful ways, your work will generate vital support that enables Texas Public Radio to inform, educate, and serve the communities of Central and South Texas.
Click here for the full job description.
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2. TITLE: Assistant Director, Programming & Production
SUMMARY:
Texas Public Radio is seeking a strategic, collaborative, and technically skilled Assistant Director of Programming and Production to oversee the creative and technical execution of programming and production operations while fostering a cohesive, high-quality broadcast environment.
Based in San Antonio, this position oversees key functions including on-air sound, audio production, programming coordination, radio automation, traffic operations support, and on-air fundraising coaching. You’ll partner with leadership to unify the station’s on-air identity across Texas Public Radio’s news and classical networks, strengthen audience engagement, and ensure consistent, high-quality broadcast execution aligned with organizational standards and mission-driven goals.
In addition, this role co-manages radio automation systems, serves as a key backup for traffic operations, and provides hands-on technical and production leadership to support daily programming needs. You will help ensure seamless operational workflows, guide production best practices, and contribute to the continued evolution of Texas Public Radio’s programming strategy and public service mission.
Click here for the full job description.
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3. TITLE: Human Resources Manager
SUMMARY:
Texas Public Radio (TPR) is seeking a strategic, collaborative, and people-focused Human Resources Manager to lead and oversee all aspects of the organization's human resources function while fostering an engaging, inclusive, and high-performing workplace culture.
Based in San Antonio, this manager will oversee key HR functions, including recruitment, onboarding, training and development, succession planning, compensation management, benefits administration, compliance, employee relations, and performance management. You'll partner with leadership to develop and implement people strategies that support organizational goals, strengthen employee engagement, and ensure HR practices align with business objectives and strategic plan.
Whether you're guiding talent acquisition initiatives, shaping workplace culture, managing the internship and contractor programs, or ensuring compliance with employment laws and HR best practices, your work will help build and support a thriving workforce that enables the organization to achieve its mission.
Click here for the full job description.
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4. TITLE: Local Government & Communities Reporter
SUMMARY:
The Local Government & Communities Reporter, based in San Antonio, reports on local government, public policy and civic life with a focus on how decisions made by public officials shape people’s daily lives and communities.
This reporter tracks daily developments at City Hall, county government and across local government agencies while also producing public service journalism, breaking news coverage, important alerts, explanatory reporting and accountability journalism on issues including housing, growth, infrastructure, public safety, transportation, climate resilience and neighborhood change.
Texas Public Radio (TPR) is a mission-driven, award-winning, multi-platform news organization serving audiences across South Texas and beyond.
Click here for the full job description.
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5. TITLE: Early Childhood Education & Development Reporter
SUMMARY: This position is supported by a grant and is currently funded through March 31, 2028. Continuance of the position is dependent on securing funding for subsequent years.
Texas Public Radio (TPR) is seeking an enterprising, empathetic, and data-driven reporter to lead
our coverage of early childhood education and development (aka “the first five years”). Based in San Antonio, this reporter will cover the critical issues facing families, educators, and policymakers locally and statewide.
You will go beyond the daycare crisis headlines to explore the systemic forces—economic, political, and cultural—that shape the lives of Texas’ youngest residents, as well as their parents’ and caregivers’. Whether you are reporting on the 2026 Child Care Workforce Strategic Plan or visiting a home-based provider in the South Texas, your goal is to make the invisible visible.
We’re looking for a reporter excited to connect educators and caregivers of children ages 0–5 with
resources and people working to effect positive change in early childhood. We want to reveal what’s working and what’s not.
This reporter will produce original stories across radio, digital, and social platforms that inform,
engage, and elevate public understanding of how early childhood experiences impact long-term
success and community well-being.
Click here for the full job description.
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Texas Public Radio is an Equal Opportunity Employer. See our 2025-26 EEO report at this link.