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3MBS Employment Opportunity - Finance & Compliance Manager

3MBS Employment Opportunity - Sponsorship & Promotions

The Dress Circle this Friday August 29th - Live concert at 3MBS!

3MBS Employment Opportunity - IT Officer

3MBS Composer Award 2008 Winner Announced

The 4th 3MBS Salon Series Concert - The Vocal Consort, September 18th

3MBS Employment Opportunity - Sponsorship & Promotions

Sponsorship & Promotions, 3MBS
Full time
$50-60,000pa + Super + Uncapped Bonus Structure

Working in the Marketing & Development Division and reporting to the General Manager, this position exists to generate revenue, within ACMA guidelines, through on-air sponsored promotions; advertising in 3MBS bi-monthly print magazine, Libretto; 3MBS website; corporate partnership and grants. Key person responsible for prospecting, building relationships, securing, contracting and servicing new clients as well as maintaining and servicing relationships with existing 3MBS clients.  Responsibility includes developing revenue generating strategies, monitoring income and reporting against projections.

A detailed position description is available here: PD Sponsorship Promotions.doc

Applications close on Friday 19 September 2008

3MBS News 22.08.08

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3MBS Employment Opportunity - Finance & Compliance Manager

Finance and Compliance Manager
Permanent Part Time 3 days p/w
$70,000 + Super pro rata

An opportunity now exists for an experienced, enthusiastic and committed professional to join the Station’s management team in the position of Finance and Compliance Manager. This position is for 3 days a week.

Reporting to the General Manager, this position is responsible for all aspects of financial planning and reporting including: general ledger, month-end and statutory reporting, tax, cash flow analysis, preparation of annual budgets and forecasts, control of financial transactions involving general funds, grants, contracts and Deductible Gift Recipient accounts, administration policies and procedures and compliance across operations.

The successful applicant will be CA/CPA qualified and have 3-5 yrs professional accounting experience in a small to medium organisation, up-to-date knowledge of accounting standards, strong technical skills and proficiency with financial and accounting software applications specifically Quick Books.  This position is integral to the culture of the 3MBS community and requires excellent interpersonal and communication skills.  An understanding of community and/or not-for-profit organisations is essential.

For further information contact Lynne Hamilton on (03) 9416 1035 or email move@3mbs.org.au.
A detailed position description is available here: PD Finance and Compliance Manager.doc

Applications close on Friday 12 September 2008

3MBS News 22.08.08

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The Dress Circle this Friday August 29th (Live at 3MBS)

The Dress Circle will feature every Friday afternoon during the Concert Hall program with Robert Hooke.

The Dress Circle is an exciting new initiative from 3MBS to give listeners an exclusive front row seat at performances by Australia’s finest musicians and ensembles. The Dress Circle will feature delayed broadcasts from Melbourne concert halls every Friday afternoon. These recordings will be from concerts and recitals performed in the previous few weeks – The Dress Circle presents concerts that are news and not history.

In the last week of every month, The Dress Circle will feature performances broadcast live-to-air from 3MBS’s Performance Space, featuring Australian and International musicians.

Tune in to The Dress Circle – Friday afternoons between 1:30pm and 4:30pm on 3MBS Classically Melbourne, 103.5 FM or streaming at www.3mbs.org.au

Broadcast Schedule

Aug 8th: 2008 Classically Melbourne Concert, Orchestra Victoria at Hamer hall (24/July)
Aug 15th: Darkness and Light, Grainger Quartet, Collins Street Baptist Church. (15/July/08)
Aug 22nd: Fresh Water Trio
Aug 29th: A Live concert at 3MBS. Tristan Lee, a semi-finalist in the Southern Highlands International Piano Competition 2007

3MBS News 7.07.08

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3MBS IT Officer

3MBS are looking for a part-time IT Officer. Here is your chance to join small team of staff and 200 volunteers all passionate about community radio.

This person will be responsible for providing IT support to the organization across all platforms and will work closely with other technical staff maintaining our broadcast audio system, network infrastructure and office IT.

The position is 3 days per week permanent part-time.

Applications close: 5pm Friday 22 August.

For more information or Position Description contact:
Greg Segal, Technical Manager 9416 1035

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LOCLAN MACKENZIE-SPENCER
WINS 3MBS NATIONAL COMPOSER AWARDS

Bendigo-born composer Loclan Mackenzie-Spencer has won the 3MBS National Composer Awards, rising above a field of 33 new scores from composers in all Australian states to take out the $10,000 2008 Betty Amsden Award for Orchestral Composition.

Loclan’s winning composition, Verwicklung, will have its world premiere at the 9th 3MBS Classically Melbourne Concert at 7:30pm Thursday, July 24 at Hamer Hall, the Arts Centre.  Performed by Orchestra Victoria, the popular annual free concert introduces to Melbourne the Orchestra’s new Principal Guest Conductor Marko Letonja.  The performance will be recorded for delayed broadcast on 3MBS 103.5FM.

Loclan Mackenzie-Spencer is delighted to have won.  “It is such a thrill and a privilege to have a piece played by a professional orchestra and I am learning so much working with composers such as Richard Mills and the people from Orchestra Victoria.  I am really looking forward to hearing it performed in Hamer Hall, and I will be using this wonderful prize to further my studies and composition and orchestration in the future.

“I am pleased that I am able to encourage young composers to partake of this Award for they are the future of the Australian musical world,” said Betty Amsden OAM.

Melbourne composer Julian Yu was awarded the second award, the $2000 2008 APRA Award for Orchestral Composition.

Since the year 2000, 3MBS has been supporting Australian composers in one of the best ways possible; financially. The unique award has been developed by 3MBS in association with Orchestra Victoria, Betty Amsden OAM, APRA, the Arts Centre and the Robert Salzer Foundation to promote and nurture Australian composers and showcase their orchestral works.

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3MBS Salon Series: The Vocal Consort with Frederick Shade

6.00pm Thursday September 18th
The Library at The Abbotsford Convent,
1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford

3MBS continues with its 2008 Salon Series of intimate concert recitals from the old library space at the Abbotsford Convent. The Salon concerts feature Australia’s leading classical ensembles presented in the grand environment of the Abbotsford Convent arts precinct.

THE VOCAL CONSORT
men a cappella

Formed in 1984 The Vocal Consort consists of fourteen tenors and basses although numbers are adjusted according to the demands of particular music or particular events. The group’s repertoire is wide and varied, ranging from plainchant and sixteenth century polyphony to comic pieces, jazz and pop. Audiences are taken on a journey of emotions from hysterical laughter through to intimate reflection.

The group has undertaken several concert tours in Europe, Asia and North America - where a New York Times critic wrote: “The Vocal Consort sang superbly… a rich, seamless blend.” The ensemble continues to earn superlatives from critics and audiences alike.

FREDERICK SHADE
Frederick Shade is one of Australia's most respected flautists. He enjoys a distinguished career as a performer, regularly appearing as a concerto soloist, chamber musician and in recital.

He was appointed as Principal Piccolo in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and retired from the Orchestra at the end of 2002 after nearly 30 years with them.

Frederick Shade has commissioned numerous works from Australian composers for the flute, piccolo and for wind quintet, including two concertos for piccolo and orchestra, both of which have received critical acclaim. He has edited several volumes of flute music for Allans Publishing.

Wine, beer and bar snacks are available, and tickets are strictly limited. 

Tickets are just $15 for 3MBS subscribers and $25 for the general public.

Weren't you there?
Have a listen to what you missed at the first Salon Series concert with the Freshwater Trio.

3MBS News 7.07.08

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