New Year, New Job!

Radio Coordinator CAAMA Radio

• 10-month contract Feb-Dec 2023 + relocation assistance
• Play a part in celebrating CAAMA’s 45 years of Indigenous broadcasting, storytelling, culture, languages and music

CAAMA Radio

Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association celebrates 45 years of blak media in 2025.

We are recruiting a Radio Coordinator to support our expansion and scale up in remote Indigenous communities in the Central Australian desert.

About us

Located in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, CAAMA (Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association) is an iconic cultural institution and the first licensed Aboriginal broadcaster in Australia. CAAMA is unique in the Australian media landscape with a generational connection to Indigenous communities and audiences; founded on more than 40 years of advocacy, innovation, and leadership in the creative industries.

In the heart of Australia, 8KIN FM (100.5 FM) is the hub of a radio network which connects Remote Indigenous Broadcasting Services (RIBS) in eleven remote Aboriginal communities and our service in Tennant Creek, and with further and expanding retransmission capacity across Central Australia, the Top End and South Australia.

We are passionate about championing and empowering our next generation to shape their own narratives in the digital landscape and have embraced digital transformation to meet the changing information needs of remote Aboriginal communities.

We have four state-of-the-art broadcast studios at our Todd Street headquarters from where we can remotely monitor and provide technical support to the RIBS network. We are co-located with the historic and recently refurbished CAAMA Music Studio.

Opportunity

CAAMA’s Radio Coordinator will be responsible for assisting the running of CAAMA Radio. Key responsibilities include helping to support broadcasters in Mparntwe/Alice Springs and our remote communities to make radio in their own voices and languages for broadcast to their communities, across the radio network and on social platforms.

Responsibilities include (but aren’t limited to):

• Planning, producing and scheduling of radio programs, promoting audience engagement in collaboration with the Digital and Community Engagement Manager, the Operations and Music Studio Manager, and the Community News Lead.
• Teaching/Mentoring in radio and communication skills relevant to radio broadcast and production to Indigenous broadcasters and facilitate culturally appropriate radio production and programming for broadcast.

• Produce community service radio shows towards ensuring the highest possible number of hours per week of live broadcasting at 8KIN and across the RIBS network.
• Support engagement with schools and young people as part of CAAMA’s agenda to provide local students and young people with a safe space for expression.
• Liaise with stakeholders, schools, community groups with a focus on outside broadcasts and content production.

This is a full-time contract through December 2025, with a possibility of extension subject to funding.

About Our Ideal Radio Coordinator

We are looking for a creative radio practitioner with a collaborative approach to work. Your creativity and proactive approach is supported by effective communication skills and emotional intelligence.

We need someone with demonstrated experience training others, operating a radio studio and relevant editing software.

You will need relevant qualifications and radio experience, will have (or successfully apply for) a valid Working with Children Check. Experience living remotely and/or working with Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander communities will be highly regarded.

Benefits

• salary circa $75,000 pro-rata;
• Relocation assistance and access to salary sacrifice;
• 5 weeks annual leave;
• A work car for around town;
• Work in a beautiful and unique part of Australia.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are encouraged to apply.

A position description is attached.