It's probably worth noting that little to no technical know-how or experience is required (Stephen Ingram - next year's IT Manager - and I will teach you all you need to know about the technicalities of managing Sustain!) The only requirement is that you love music (and loads of different kinds of it) and you have enough free time to listen to all the CDs we receive through the post and catalogue them or add them to Sustain - (we get sent loads of CDs before they get released - we found Adele's album unopened in a box somewhere!) and enough time to go to all the gigs which IC Radio gets invited to. If you've got an obsessive-compulsive streak and enjoy managing people to catalogue/rip the vast amounts of CDs and vinyls we've got (there are way more than what's inside the corridor and filing cabinets) that's also a bonus! And there's plenty of scope for organising Metric nights with live music and getting bands to do live sessions and all that jazz. The potential scope is huge - but you don't need to worry about technical literacy. If you can use a mouse, we'll teach you the rest :) Max On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Allinson, Matthew < matthew.allinson07@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
Hello all,
The role of head of music has become available as the elected officer, Christian, is off to do research in the netherlands next year (congrats!)
The basic role consists of maintaining the music library and organising the playlist on sustain, this will be a particularly important role next year as our computer system is being replaced.
You are also the main public facing point of contact with record labels and artist management.
The role, however has a broad reach and if you are enthusiastic and have ideas can be a great platform to really shape the sound and direction of the station. Industrially, music officer is a widely respected role and innovative stuff done as H.O.M. would look good on the CV of anyone looking to go into the running of a radio station or general music industry work.
This is a great entry level position if you want to join the committee, but also good for experienced (I.e old) members too
If you would like to stand, email me with your name and a 250ish word manifesto by Saturday 27th April. I'll then circulate them when voting opens next week. Any questions, email me too.
My email is ma1307@ic.ac.uk
Best of luck
Matt Allinson
Returning officer IC radio
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