Assessor Team nominations

Our Assessor Team independently review, score and provide advice on grant applications to our Grants Advisory Committees.

Grant Assessors are called on twice annually to review incoming applications, providing assessment scores and feedback through an online process.

Assessors require online access, and some support may be available to assist with this in some instances.

Terms

Appointments are for a term of three years.

Roles and Responsibilities

For more information about workload and role expectations:

Read more about what's involved in being an assessor

For more information, see:

• Meet our Grant Assessors
• Annual Report
• Strategic Plan

Individuals are welcome to nominate themselves or community broadcasting stations and sector organisations can recommend candidates.

All nominations are reviewed by the HR & Nominations Committee and recommendations are made to the CBF Board who approve the final appointments. 

Appointments are assessed against the CBF's Diversity, Access & Equity Policy and the following criteria:

• Skills - The nominee demonstrates appropriate skills for the role, including specialist knowledge, as detailed in the Roles and Responsibilities.
• Attributes - The nominee demonstrates qualities that would be beneficial to the work of our Board and advisory committees, including a commitment to fair, ethical and transparent processes, hard-worker, ability to make difficult decisions, collaborator, ability to contribute insight, creative ideas and devise innovative solutions to problems, analytical skills, attention to detail, and/or a commitment to the values of community broadcasting.
• Experience - The nominee demonstrates relevant experience in a similar role, experience at a community radio or TV station, a broad understanding of the media industry, and/or experience writing or assessing grants.
• Other - The nominee has sufficient time to participate and has regular online access.

The CBF welcomes volunteers from the following backgrounds and with the following skills and experience to apply:

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
• Women and gender diverse people
• People with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
• People with a disability
• LGBTIQ+ people
• Young people
• People from non-metropolitan areas

Skills & experience:

• Specialist content production (news/current affairs, spoken word, specialist music and specialist Indigenous, RPH and ethnic)
• Station management
• Financial management
• Business development and fundraising
• Events, marketing and promotions
• Technology (broadcast and IT)
• Training
• Social inclusion
• Broadcast platforms (radio, television, online and cross-platform)
• A range of station experience (small/large, metropolitan/regional/remote, all states and territories

Nominations are considered by members of the Nominations Advisory Group made up of national sector representative organisations who assess them against the criteria listed above.

We are a not-for-profit organisation supporting Australian community media. By supporting media makers, we help connect people and tell vital, local stories. Each year we provide more than $19.7 million in funding to support 216 community broadcasting organisations around Australia.

The distribution of funds is determined by our Board, supported by our Grants Advisory Committees and Grant Assessors. We proudly involve people experienced in community media to support our grant decisions and are guided by our Strategic Plan, policies, constitution, and inspired by our vision, ‘A voice for every community – sharing our stories’.