AWAL, HELP MUSICIANS (Social) & KOBALT

Contract Type: 35 hours per week (Monday to Friday)

Help Musicians UK is Britain’s leading independent music charity and has provided help, support and opportunities to empower musicians at all stages of their lives for 97 years. HMUK’s mission is to create a sustainable future for all musicians and the industry by supporting those who work in the music industry through grants, health and welfare services, campaigning, creative programmes and targeted investment initiatives. It exists to advocate, educate and provide information around issues which affect musicians and the industry that surrounds them.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team in London in a Digital Communications Officer role. You will work with the Head of Strategic Communications and Communications & PR Manager to develop and implement the digital communications plan, in line with the charity’s wider communications strategy.

You will manage HMUK’s social channels, managing and delivering content for the charity’s website and satellite sites including Music Minds Matter and regional sites for Scotland and Northern Ireland. You will lead on delivery of major digital projects, such as the website rebrand, launch of HMUK’s Intranet and the Music Minds Matter mental health service re-launch. You will commission and create multimedia content, develop and implement digital communications and marketing plans across a number of major projects.

To be successful you will need a good knowledge and experience of a wide range of music and the music industry. You will have 3-5 years’ experience within Digital Communications and Marketing. Up to date knowledge and understanding of current digital and social media landscape, trends, tools and analytics/evaluation and a good working knowledge of InDesign, Mail Chimp and analytics is also essential.

You must possess excellent content planning, CMS, web management, digital marketing, CRM and database skills. You will be highly organised, with an excellent eye for detail, a strong and confident communicator, whilst also having excellent copywriting skills.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our growing organisation and to work to achieve the charity’s ambitions to support career and creative opportunities for music makers and the industry across the UK.

To apply please visit our website and complete an application form.

Deadline for applications: 27th August 2018 midnight

All enquiries and applications should be made to recruitment@helpmusicians.org.uk

AWAL serves a growing roster of emerging talent and established independent artists from all over the world and we are now expanding our London based UK team to include a new Senior Mechanical Assistant, reporting to the Royalty Manager.

Supporting the Mechanical Licensing & Royalty Administration process, you will work across all mechanical licensing tasks as well as royalty and accounting responsibilities ensuring quarterly deadlines are met.

The ideal candidate is interested in career growth within royalty administration, ideally someone who understands the mechanical licensing process – perhaps you have a background in royalty distribution and accounting for a record label, distributor, publisher or collection society!

To be successful in the role, you are a hardworking, self-managing, detail-oriented and organized individual who is fluent in excel and enjoys data management and back office work.

AWAL is the Recordings division of Kobalt, and provides a range of marketing, distribution and other services to artists and labels, empowering recording owners whilst enabling them to retain ownership and control of their masters. AWAL works with more than 12,000 clients and our roster includes artists such as Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Kooks, Laura Marling, Tom Misch, De La Soul, The Wombats, David Gray, Placebo and LAUV, and labels including Marathon Artists, Independiente, Mau5trap, Downtown, Wrasse and Chrysalis.

It’s an exciting time to be joining AWAL, and working at Kobalt, you will help build the music services company of tomorrow, to empower creators in today’s complex and change the music landscape – ideal for someone with an incredible drive, enthusiasm & passion for music!

WHAT WOULD YOU DO AS A SENIOR MECHANICAL ASSISTANT?

• General day to day duties of issuing and logging mechanical licenses
• Maintain data registration issues with HFA, CMRRA and MCPS
• Research song ownership and administration using various resources and databases
• Ad hoc licensing tasks
• Processing quarterly mechanical royalties
• Ensuring the timely reporting & payment of mechanical royalties to writers, publishers and societies
• Calculating mechanical deductions and applying to client statements
• Responding to queries regarding mechanical licensing/reporting

YOU WILL IDEALLY HAVE

• …knowledge and understanding of global music licensing and royalty processing
• …efficient with Microsoft Office, specifically with Microsoft Excel
• …excellent written and oral communication skills
• …ability to prioritize and exhibit strong time management skills and to stick to deadlines
• …a “can do” attitude, and is collaborative and respectful with colleagues
• …highly numerate and IT literate

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