JOB POSTING: Senior Producer
About CKUA
CKUA is recognized as Canada’s first public broadcaster, and it continues to inspire and guide a world-wide community of loyal arts and culture enthusiasts along a journey of musical discovery every day. CKUA offers more than 45 expertly curated multi-genre musical programs, plus other enriching arts and cultural content on-air and online. CKUA serves 380 communities across Alberta with FM Radio and reaches listeners around the world with live-streaming and digital content through CKUA.com, the CKUA App, and social platforms. We are an inclusive, creative, hardworking group on a musical mission to enrich lives and support the arts.
Senior Producer
Location: Edmonton, AB | In-Person | Full-Time| Union Position
About the Role
CKUA is seeking a Senior Producer to join our Content team as an experienced creative and operational leader. This is a role for someone who understands both the craft and the coordination behind great programming. Someone who can help shape what goes to air while supporting the talented people who bring it to life, and who brings a genuine passion for the power of audio, music, and storytelling.
Working closely with the Director of Content, other Senior Producer, hosts, producers, and technical colleagues, the Senior Producer plays a central role in maintaining the creative integrity and consistency of CKUA’s programming. From refining show concepts to navigating live broadcast moments, this position helps ensure our content reflects and uplifts the music, artists, and cultural communities that define CKUA’s sound.
As CKUA approaches its centenary, we are celebrating a remarkable legacy while actively shaping what the next hundred years of community-powered arts and music broadcasting can look like. Radio remains at the heart of our identity. At the same time, we are expanding our digital and video presence, particularly in Edmonton, creating new ways to showcase live performances, in-studio sessions, and the artists and cultural voices that make up our community.
We’re looking for someone grounded in strong radio production who is energized by multi-platform storytelling and committed to supporting vibrant, community-rooted media.
How You’ll Make an Impact
You’ll work alongside some of CKUA’s most distinctive on-air voices, helping shape programming that feels engaging, authentic, and connected to the music and cultural communities we serve.
You’ll collaborate with hosts and producers to refine show formats, strengthen segments, and support storytelling that highlights artists and cultural perspectives from across our region and beyond. You’ll bring a strong editorial ear and thoughtful perspective to the day-to-day work of programming, helping ensure quality and consistency while staying responsive to creative ideas.
In live and recorded environments, you’ll help keep production moving smoothly, coordinating workflow, supporting timelines, and navigating the dynamics that come with creative work and live broadcasting. Your presence will help balance artistic expression with clarity and structure.
As a senior member of the Content team, you’ll offer mentorship and constructive feedback, contributing to professional growth and strong team alignment. Working alongside the Director of Content, you’ll participate in performance conversations and help support a collaborative, accountable culture.
You’ll also stay close to the craft. Whether producing audio or video segments, coordinating interviews, supporting digital storytelling, or contributing to multimedia initiatives, including video where applicable, you’ll remain actively involved in shaping content across platforms.
As CKUA moves into its next century, your work will help ensure our community-powered music and cultural programming continues to evolve in ways that feel both rooted and forward-looking.
What You Bring
You bring strong experience in radio production and a clear understanding of what makes audio storytelling resonate. You care about craft with pacing, tone, voice, and audience connection, and you’re comfortable contributing ideas while supporting others in refining theirs.
You’re passionate about the power of music, arts, and storytelling to connect people and communities. You understand the role community-based media plays in amplifying diverse voices and cultural expression.
Experience in video production or multimedia storytelling is considered an asset. If your background is primarily in radio but you’re interested in growing your digital and video skills, we welcome that curiosity. A willingness to learn and adapt across platforms is important.
You’re organized and steady in live production environments. You can help bring structure to creative workflows and contribute to a team dynamic that balances artistic independence with shared standards and accountability.
You’ve supported or mentored colleagues in a creative setting and are comfortable offering constructive feedback in a way that builds trust. You work well within a collaborative environment and understand how to contribute to a positive, respectful team culture.
You align with CKUA’s values of Community, Diversity, Inclusion, Creativity, Curiosity, and Authenticity and bring those principles into your daily work.
You’re ready to be part of a team that’s passionate about what they do and committed to making a difference and bringing together community.
Additional Details
This is a full-time, unionized position, with terms and conditions governed by the Collective Agreement between CKUA and IBEW Local 2228. The role is in-person based, located in CKUA’s downtown Edmonton office in the historic Alberta Hotel on Jasper Avenue. The pay range for this position starts at $32.12 per hour.
In addition to comprehensive benefits and a pension plan, this role offers the opportunity to contribute to meaningful, community-powered arts and music programming that strengthens connections across the communities we serve.
How to Apply:
If you’re ready to support CKUA’s mission and help create community connections through music, arts, and culture, we’d love to hear from you.
Please apply online through ADP by April 28, 2026, at ckua.com/careers.
We will be interviewing qualified candidates as they present themselves.
CKUA welcomes applications from all qualified individuals. We are particularly interested in and encourage applications from equity-seeking communities, including women, racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, and persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities/expressions.
CKUA is a donor-supported arts organization that inspires and connects through the power of music, arts, culture and story. With a focus on musical discovery, we showcase the best creative work from Alberta and beyond and deliver it on-air, online and in-person.
In the spirit of our journey to promote reconciliation, we honour the truth of the shared history and acknowledge that we operate on Treaty 6 and Treaty 7 territories.
Treaty 6 territory is the traditional gathering place for diverse Indigenous peoples including the Cree, Blackfoot, Métis, Nakoda, Sioux, Iroquois, Dene, Ojibway, Saulteaux/Anishinaabe and many others whose histories, languages and cultures continue to influence our vibrant community of Amiskwaciwaskahigan, also known as Edmonton. Treaty 7 is the traditional lands of the Blackfoot Confederacy which includes the Siksika, Kainai and Pikani, the Tsuut’ina and the Stoney Nakoda nations including the Chiniki, Bearspaw and Wesley nations. We also recognize the Métis people and the Inuit who make their home in Mohkins’tsis, also known as Calgary.
