Role Specifics
- Role Status: Unpaid T-Level Work Placement
- Time Commitment: 7 hours per week, during term time
- Location: Future Radio, 14 Woodcock Road, Norwich, NR3 3TX
- Reporting to: Station Manager
- Start Date: As soon as practicable
Specific Responsibilities
What You’ll Be Doing
During your placement, you’ll gain hands-on experience supporting the day-to-day running of a community radio station. With guidance and training, you will:
- Edit audio for broadcast using Adobe Audition, including:
- preparing pre-recorded shows
- editing previously broadcast programmes for repeat
- editing podcasts and short audio packages ready for broadcast
- Upload completed radio shows and podcasts to Future Radio’s Mixcloud and podcast feeds
- Create short audio clips from interviews and programmes for social media and our website – helping us share great content with the community
- Help organise Future Radio’s playout system (Myriad), which is the software that schedules and plays our radio shows. You’ll assist with uploading new shows, archiving old shows and helping to keep our music database organised
- Look after our studios, including assisting with studio bookings and making sure spaces are kept tidy ready for presenters and guests
- Support Future Radio at key events across the city – a great chance to meet people and represent the station.
All tasks will be fully supported and supervised, and no prior radio experience is required.
What You’ll Get Out of It
By the end of the placement, you will:
- Experience what it’s like to work in a real radio station and see how teams work together to put shows on air and online
- Develop an ear for great audio – learning how sound quality, pacing and structure make a big difference to listeners
- Build time management skills by meeting deadlines and prioritising tasks in a busy media environment
- Understand the rules and standards that keep radio and podcasts professional and safe
- Work as part of a team – communicating with presenters, producers, volunteers and clients
- Gain confidence, professionalism and employability skills that will help you in college, university or future careers in media, creative industries and digital production
Personal Profile
Radio experience is not essential as full training will be given. You will be proactive, organised and able to work independently under a given remit. You will have excellent communication skills, a can-do attitude, and will act as a positive champion for Future Radio at all times.
We’re looking for:
- Superb communication skills
- The ability to generate original ideas
- A personable and confident manner
- A broad range of interests
- Good research skills
- The ability to take the initiative and make quick decisions under pressure
- Good team-working, creativity & problem solving skills
About Us
Future Radio is Norwich’s community radio station, broadcasting 24/7 on FM, DAB and online to listeners across Norwich, King’s Lynn and Cambridge.
We’re powered by over 90 volunteers who produce and present shows, share local stories, promote Norwich talent, and support our community through training and opportunities. Our aim is simple: to create radio that everyone who calls Norwich home, loves to listen to, wherever they are in the world.
Future Radio is part of Future Projects, a local charity that helps people and communities facing hardship through services in education, support and media.
You can find out more about Future Projects wider work here.
Get Involved
You will be vital to the work of Future Radio in producing shows, creating content, supporting the office, supporting our volunteers and whatever else is needed to keep a Community Radio Station running.
Working at Future Radio offers tremendous opportunities, valuable work experience, the chance to develop new and existing skills & builds confidence. Plus you’ll get to meet interesting and enthusiastic people with a passion for music, broadcasting & getting involved in their community.
Previous volunteers and students have gone on to develop careers in music, media, education & training, business, and the voluntary and community sector.
If you have any questions about the role please contact our Station Manager, Dean Tucker, at d.tucker@futureradio.co.uk.
