CFUV Job Posting: Arts & Outreach Intern – Deadline: May 8

We’re hiring a part-time Arts & Outreach Intern for May-October!

Qualifications:

1. Excellent written and oral communication skills
2. Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills
3. Familiar with audio production software
4. Good computer skills
5. Understanding of journalistic standards and ethics
6. Experience working with and directing volunteers
7. Experience in news programming and campus/community radio an asset
8. Willing to work flexible hours and weekends

Principal Duties:

Accountable to the Station Manager and Coordinator of Volunteers, the Arts & Outreach Intern works as part of a team.

Specific areas of responsibility include:

1. Produce a weekly arts magazine radio program which includes interviews, community announcements and production of short documentaries. Local arts content covered would include: theatre; art galleries and collectives; music events and festivals; literary readings; spoken word performances and local dance companies.
2. Use the weekly program to outreach and recruit other youth and multicultural community volunteers.
3. Edit and upload the weekly radio program for podcast and promote via social media
4. Assist the Coordinator of Volunteers with outreaching to priority communities and groups, especially high school youth and multicultural communities.
5. Aid in the organization and running of youth media camps and Francophone youth station tours.
6. Assist with weekly live on-air performances both as an on-air host and as a sound tech apprentice.
7. Other duties as required.

Terms of Employment:

Twenty hours a week, $16 an hour with a half hour lunch. Must be available for weekend and some evening work. Applicants must be between 16 and 30 years of age. The position runs from May 1st-October 30, 2015. A criminal record review is required immediately upon hiring, at the employee’s expense, but upon a successful review the employee will be compensated for the criminal record review fee.

Send resume and cover letter: Attention: Personnel Committee; email rgelling@uvic.ca. Please, no phone calls or fax submissions. Deadline: May 8, 2015

This position is grant-funded via the Youth on Air! program thanks to the Community Radio Fund of Canada (CRFC). CFUV is an equal opportunity employer. Everyone is thanked for applying; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.  

Come join our amusingly unconventional and idiosyncratic crew!