Volunteer Station Assistant

Specific Responsibilities

This list is not exhaustive and is subject to review as changes and developments occur.

The Station Assistant will:

• Support the Station Manager with overseeing the daily scheduling of Future Radio shows, music and adverts using Myriad Schedule, ensuring everything is scheduled correctly and accurately.
• Provide assistance to presenters to maximise the quality of their shows.
• Support the Station Manager with managing & supporting our volunteer base. Build good relationships with all volunteers, particularly our presenters, becoming a key, and trusted, contact.
• Support the Station Manager with recruiting new volunteers
• Support the Station Manager with the training of new volunteers – particularly training them on using the studio and using our Myriad playout system.

• Manage our studios – including overseeing the studio booking and ensure they are kept clean and to a high standard.
• Troubleshoot any problems that arise in the studio.
• Support the Station Manager with development of our training and key tasks.
• Ensure key pages on our website are kept up to date.
• Support Future Radio at key events across the city.

You will support the Station Manager with leading our support volunteer team – including Production Assistants and Broadcast Assistants. This will include training them to do their role and allocating them tasks. You may even need to step in and help if you can. Please click on each role for more details.

Don’t worry, full training will be given!

Personal Profile

Radio experience is desirable but 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.

You will need to have:

• 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 initiative and make quick decisions under pressure
• Good team-working skills, creativity and problem solving skills

About Us

Future Radio is part of Future Projects, a charity whose mission is to unlock the potential of communities experiencing hardship and deprivation by delivering high quality services and support which enables lasting change.

Alongside the radio station, Future Projects delivers that mission through Future Support and Future Education. 

Future Support is a collection of specialist support services helping those most in need, in areas such as housing and homelessness, welfare entitlements, family support, debt and money advice, health and wellbeing, employability support, loneliness and isolation, and any other challenges being faced by vulnerable people in our communities.

Future Education is a specialist independent school which engages children with complex needs and nurtures them to become successful adults through an academic and therapeutic curriculum.

Future Radio is Norwich’s community radio station, broadcasting 24 hours a day online, via D.A.B. and FM to a potential audience of around 381,000 people across the greater Norwich area.  The station is staffed by approx. 70 volunteers and acts as a platform for local communities, promoting talent, supporting businesses and offering training and career development opportunities.  Our ambition is to create radio that everyone who considers themselves a resident of Norwich, enjoys listening to, no matter where in the world they are!

You can find out more about Future Projects here.

• You will become part of a community of talented music enthusiasts and develop personal & professional networks.
• You’ll develop knowledge and experience in digital, communication and technical skills.
• You’ll be giving something back through your involvement with Future Radio and Future Projects.

Get Involved

You will be vital to the work Future Radio does 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 & to build confidence. Plus you’ll get to meet interesting and enthusiastic people with a passion for music, broadcasting & getting involved in their community.

Previous volunteers have gone on to develop careers in music, media, education & training, business, and the voluntary and community sector.