Responsibilities

• Develop media schedules from client budgets, goals, and target audiences across broadcast, print, outdoor, and direct mail
• Negotiate rates, added value, bonus spots, and premium placements with broadcast and streaming radio/TV, newspaper and magazine, outdoor, and direct-mail vendors
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with media vendors and sales representatives
• Prepare and place insertion orders and advertising schedules
• Traffic creative, copy, and tags to vendors accurately and on deadline, coordinating specifications with the creative team
• Manage in-flight schedule changes, preemptions, and make-goods as they arise
• Verify everything ran as purchased: affidavits, tear sheets, airchecks, delivery reports
• Resolve under-delivery, missed placements, and billing discrepancies with vendors
• Reconcile vendor invoices against schedules and negotiated rates for handoff to billing
• Administer client co-op advertising programs: preapprovals, vendor documentation, and claim submission

Requirements

• Experience in media buying, media sales, or agency/station operations
• Strong understanding of media metrics, including reach, frequency, impressions, CPM, and GRPs
• Demonstrated videography and photography skills — camera, lighting, audio, and editing — supported by a reel or portfolio. We work primarily in Adobe Creative Cloud; comparable tools are acceptable.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Exceptional organization, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple clients and deadlines independently
• Strong work ethic and a track record of taking initiative
• A team player who works well in a small, collaborative agency
• Familiarity with regional Northwest media markets (Spokane, Coeur d'Alene, Lewiston)
• Co-op advertising experience
• Experience editing video and photography in Lightroom, Premiere Pro or equivalent