3CR Reception Volunteers provide office support for day-to-day tasks as well as connection and point of inquiry for the 3CR community via phone, email, and face-to-face.

Volunteers filling this role will perform basic administrative and housekeeping duties, with the flexibility to take on other tasks as required and must be available for 4hours per week on a set roster.

Skills and experience needed to do the role

• Written and Verbal Communication Skills
• Friendly and open attitude
• Dependability
• Attention to detail
• Adaptability
• Familiarity with Email, Word & Excel
• Good phone etiquette

Organisational background

3CR is a dynamic, community hub that has produced radio for more than 40 years. Currently we have over 400 volunteers, 2 full-time staff members and 8 part-time staff members.

3CR broadcasters present around 125 radio programs every week, with 20 community language shows in 13 different languages and 10 hours of Indigenous programming. Listeners can tune in on 855AM, 3CRDigital stream live through the web or download podcasts of our shows. 3CR provides a media space enabling progressive communities to voice ideas and build their power to create social change.

We were established in 1976 to provide a voice for those denied access to the mass media, particularly the working class, women, Indigenous people and the many community groups and community issues discriminated against in and by the mass media.

Benefits of Volunteering with 3CR

• Be involved in an activist community
• Meet like-minded people
• Be part of the diversification of media
• Play a decision-making role in an alternative media outlet

The impact of volunteering with 3CR

By volunteering at 3CR you are joining and contributing to a dedicated activist community. Unlike most other media organisations in Australia, 3CR is genuinely owned by the community - by the groups and individuals who broadcast, and by the people who listen to the station.3CR provides programming of interest to a broad general audience and to specific interest groups.

The expertise of presenters comes from their involvement in issues and their activism in the community. Groups broadcasting on 3CR cover the areas of social justice, the environment, ethnic communities, the arts and music, and trade unions.

Extra steps before applying -

• Tune into 3CR and get to know our programming
• Watch the short documentary from 2015 titled Radical History of 3CR Community Radio
• Attend a 3CR event or tune into our Special Broadcasts