Nominations - Board and Committees 2025

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Introduction

We’re seeking nominations for several CBF Board and advisory committee positions.

You can nominate for any number of the following voluntary positions:

Participation is on a voluntary basis, however the CBF meets all travel and accommodation costs where required.  All volunteers require online access, and some support may be available to assist with this in some instances.

All positions available are for three year terms from 1 July 2025 – 3 June 2028. People can be appointed to the Board or each Committee for up to three consecutive terms.

The benefits of being a CBF Grants Advisory Committee member include:

  • gaining broad insight into current and emerging community broadcasting issues, policy and practice
  • greater understanding of CBF decision-making, internal structures and processes
  • improved skills in assessment, grant-design, grant-writing, funding policy, strategic thinking.
  • working as part of a passionate, diverse group of volunteers from the community broadcasting sector to make collective decisions
  • being a strategic leader and having input into grant-making decisions that help build a resilient future for the community media sector 
  • the opportunity to ‘give back’ to the community broadcasting sector by ensuring grant funds are distributed in an equitable, impactful way.

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Who can nominate?

Board of Directors: There is one vacancy for an Independent Director. 

Advisory Committees: Nominations can come from community broadcasting stations, sector organisations or directly from individuals who are self-nominating.

Board members and Staff (excluding casual and short-term positions) from the following national peak sector organisations are not eligible to apply to CBF Board and Grants Advisory Committee positions: the CBAA, CMTO, CMAA, FNMA, NEMBC, RPH Australia and ACTA.

How are positions appointed?

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.

Background information

The Community Broadcasting Foundation (CBF) is a proud champion of community broadcasting – Australia’s largest independent media sector.

In the past year, the CBF granted more than $18.7 million to help 173 organisations communicate, connect and share knowledge with their communities through radio, television and digital media. 

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, 'Community broadcasting is at the heart of every community.'