Appointments are made by the CBF Board via a nomination process that ensures the CBF Diversity, Access & Equity Policy is met and the required experience and skills are optimised.
Nominations will be assessed against the following criteria:
Skills - The nominee demonstrates appropriate skills for the role, including specialist knowledge, as detailed in the skills matrices.
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 with regular online access.
The CBF welcomes volunteers from the following backgrounds to apply:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- Women
- Gender diverse people
- People with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
- People with a disability
- LGBTIQA+ people
- Young people
- People from non-metropolitan areas
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.