Job Vacancy ‘

Job Description         Recording Studio Trainees

 

Responsible to          Managing Editor – Alastair McPhee

 

Location:                 Bishopbriggs Media Centre

This is a 6-month paid work placement and applicants must meet the Community Jobs Scotland eligibility criteria (be aged be aged 18-24, unemployed and claiming Job Seekers Allowance for at least 6 months). Please contact your Job Centre Plus Advisor to make an application after reading this.

Hours per week         25 per week flexible. 

Generally 10am to 7pm three days per week with some weekend or later evening working for which time in lieu would be given.            

Salary                     Age appropriate national minimum wage

Annual Leave           9 days

Period of Service      26 weeks

Cue and Review  - "Print Speaking to the Blind" provide daily uploads to the British Wireless Fund for the Blind's Sonata Service of articles from The Herald, Evening Times and Radio Times Scotland.  While also providing a twice weekly mash up of these titles on cassette. 

The needs we fulfil

• There are over 1.7 million registered blind people in the UK. But many others who have some sight still have difficulty in reading, especially the small print that much information is presented in. We fulfil the following needs:

• We annually distribute audio materials to around 5,000 blind and partially sighted people throughout the United Kingdom.

• Provision of work experience through Employment Service programmes since 1985 and for the last ten years through the School Work Experience programme.  Over 600 long-term unemployed, able bodied and disabled people have benefited from this.

• Preparation and transcription of commercial and government literature in audio formats.

Our Mission

• In all our actions we recognise that without listeners to our magazines and newspapers we, as Scottish charity, cannot function.

• We work to ensure that volunteers, trainees and paid members of staff are treated with equal and reciprocated respect and understanding.

• We work to ensure the maximum return for all the resources invested in the organisation.

Main Responsibilities

• To present and produce material from newspapers etc undertake to research organise, interview and edit interviews with celebrities and local people.

• To provide administrative support to the organisation. 

• Participate in the fundraising team and help train an increased number of volunteers

Detailed Responsibilities

In providing a range of podcasts to visually impaired people you will be required to play a full role in all aspects of the production process.  This will mean your inclusion in a rota of duties to include:

• The processing of all incoming and outgoing mail for the project

• Answering and processing incoming calls

• Requesting in the agreed fashion, interviews and reviews for the magazines

• Receiving visitors to the centre

• Processing incoming and outgoing postal wallets

• Researching, compiling, presenting and recording audio articles

• Mastering, duplicating and ensuring post office collection of all postal packets.  Uploading mp3 files to the Sonata Internet radio server.

• As we also work toward the creation of a community radio station from these premises you will work with those team members interested in this project.

• General housekeeping duties to ensure the smooth running of the service.

Person Specification

Cue and Review Recording Service strives to be an equal opportunities employer.  Interested applicants who have concerns about their suitability for the programme are therefore encouraged to contact Alastair McPhee, the Managing Editor of the charity.

 

Essential Qualities

• Be without employment at the time of application

• Have a desire to gain employment

• Be able to show initiative and common sense

 

Desired Qualities

• A previous interest in sound recording, journalism or word processing

• Demonstration of an awareness of people with impairments

• Experience of working with volunteers.

Our post is now live with the Jobseekers Direct Gov website.  They have issued the following code please  use this code when asking your Job Centre Plus Advisor to clear you for applying.  Job Centre code MFH/21140