Southern Cross Austereo
Southern Cross Austereo (SCA) is Australia’s leading media entertainment company, home of LiSTNR, and the Triple M & Hit Networks. With the ability to reach 95% of the population through our Radio, TV and Digital channels, our mission is to Entertain, Inform & Inspire all Australians Anytime. Anywhere!
- Website www.scacareers.com.au
- Company Size 1,000+
- Primary Location Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Hobart, Canberra
- Categories Internet Publishing & Broadcasting, Motion Picture & Video Production, Music Publishing & Sound Recording, Radio Broadcaster, TV Broadcaster
Overview
Southern Cross Austereo (SCA) is one of Australia’s leading media companies reaching more than 95% of the Australian population through its radio, television, and digital assets. Under the Triple M and Hit Network brands, SCA owns 96 stations across FM, AM, and DAB+ radio.
In 2021, SCA launched Australia’s leading premium podcasting network – LiSTNR – a curated and personalised Audio-On-Demand destination. It is home to the Hit & Triple M Networks and over 500 podcasts. LiSTNR is Australia’s #1 podcast network reaching more than 8 million monthly listeners.
SCA broadcasts 92 free to air TV signals across regional Australia, reaching 4.4 million people a week, with Ten Network programming and advertising representation across Australia’s East Coast, Seven Network programming in Tasmania and Darwin, and Seven and Ten programming in Spencer Gulf.
Culture
SCA is committed to fostering a respectful, inclusive, and high-performing culture, where our employees are their most authentic and creative selves. We have five values that we share and bring to life every day. Our values represent the things we value, aspire to, and the expectations we have for ourselves, and each other. Want to learn more about our culture? See our Culture Book here!
People Are Our Power
• We seek diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
• We understand our audiences and create content they love.
• We value our clients and curate solutions.
We Push Doors Open
• We unlock opportunities and drive outcomes.
• We identify both problems and solutions.
• We guide our own career journeys!
We’re Better Together
• We collaborate!
• We include multiple perspectives, and value ideas from everyone.
• We actively seek feedback from others – it helps us grow.
Be Genuine
• We have genuine conversations, and don’t have time for politics.
• We have the courage to speak up for ourselves and others.
• We create authentic content that connects!
Always Curious
• We learn something new every day.
• We take creative risks and have fun!
• We seek a better way forward and learn from our mistakes.
Benefits & Perks
Working in media comes with a heap of perks, such as free footy tickets, early access to concert tickets, social events, live performances in the office and much, much more!
We understand the importance of taking time to rest and recharge! On top of 4 weeks of annual leave per year, we also offer:
- Birthday leave
- Volunteering leave
- Purchase leave options
- Special leave incentives throughout the year
Parental Benefits
SCAYourFamily offers 20 weeks gender-neutral paid parental leave for a primary carer.
Flexible Work Arrangements
SCAYourWay supports employees with flex hours, remote working, and job-sharing options.
Professional Development
Programs include SCA Leads, Leading Teams & New Manager Training, and Mentoring.
Extra Leave
SCA allows employees to purchase an additional 2 weeks of Leave.
Health & Wellness
SCAYourWellbeing provides free counselling, annual flu shots, and mental health training.
Health Insurance
SCA supports its employee’s wellbeing by providing a Bupa Health Insurance Discount.
Diversity & Inclusion
We firmly believe that fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace drives innovation, collaboration, and business success. We have implemented a range of initiatives and programs to promote diversity and inclusion within our organisation and beyond.
We understand that continuous improvement is crucial in promoting diversity & inclusion (D&I) at SCA. We recently partnered with expert external consultants, who conducted a review of SCA’s current D&I efforts to identify areas of strength and opportunity to help us develop a 3-year D&I Horizon Strategy.
The objective of the strategy is to support our efforts in continuing to build a diverse and inclusive workplace for our employees, and to reflect the diversity of Australia’s community in our consideration of programming and content.
Watch the video to hear our CEO, John Kelly, speak about our D&I journey and our ongoing commitment.
Innovation
Always Curious is one of our core values at SCA. Creativity is in our DNA, and we are proud that our people can innovate and create engaging content daily that entertains millions across Australia. From our Radio Announcers, Producers, Social Media Specialists to our Account Managers, we are pushing boundaries to capture our audiences and provide our clients with cutting edge advertisement solutions.
In addition to our content creation, we foster innovation across the entire organisation. SCA promotes creative thinking and innovation to consistently improve our content and our digital products. We strive to create an environment where our people feel valued, heard, and empowered to embrace their creativity. We achieve this through several initiatives including:
- Innovation Steer Group: strategic initiative group to classify innovative ideas into themes and levels (ensuring SCA’s innovation is strategic and directed).
- Skunkworks Projects: funded innovation projects that undergo real-world testing and rollouts, these projects provide tangible results and insights.
- Team Platforms: Brown Bags and Engineering Forums are used to discuss innovative ideas, share knowledge, and collaborate while Academies and Hackathons are platforms for intensive learning and rapid idea prototyping.
Awards
In 2021, SCA was awarded with the Human Synergistics Culture Sustainability Award for building a culture that continually evolves through openness, honesty, and regular communication.
At Radio Today’s 2023 Podcast Awards, LiSTNR was awarded:
- Podcast Platform of the Year
- Podcast Publisher of the Year
- Podcast Company of the Year
Among the individual Podcast Awards, LiSTNR won:
- Hamish & Andy – Podcast of the Year – Comedy
- Sports Bizarre – Podcast of the Year – Sports
- The Children in the Pictures – Podcast of the Year – Documentary
- Blak Matters – Podcast of the Year – Society and Culture
- Along for the Ride (in partnership with carsales.com.au) – Podcast of the Year – Branded Podcasts
Australian Commercial Radio Awards 2023:
- The Children in the Pictures – Podcast of the Year
- SCA Marketing Team – Marketing Team of the Year
Charitable Initiatives
We recognise our unique opportunity to engage with charities beyond monetary donations. In 2016, we launched our national charity program, SCA Embrace, which works with selected national charities over two-year cycles to help their work while engaging our own people to build stronger communities. In January 2024, we commenced our two-year partnership with Endometriosis Australia and Cancer Council. Read more here.
The purpose of the Embrace program is to make a substantial difference to our Embrace Partners to grow and amplify their message throughout this period. We support the two charities through community service announcements and content opportunities on SCA’s radio, television, and digital networks.
Recruitment
We are committed to advancing equal employment opportunities for our staff and to diversify and develop our workforce. Furthermore, we aim to recognise the value of attracting and retaining employees with different backgrounds, experience, knowledge, and abilities. We also aim to ensure diversity contributes to our business success and benefits individuals, teams, clients, and the community.
To find out more about our recruitment process, click here to see our Guide.
Sustainability
SCA is committed to playing our part to address climate change and commits to addressing this in three ways:
- We will understand the impacts, risks, and opportunities that climate change poses for our business.
- We will develop strategies to reduce our net carbon emissions over time.
- We will use our platforms to support our audiences, clients, suppliers, and communities to make sustainable changes, reducing their net carbon emissions.
SCA has worked with external consultants to complete a GHG emissions inventory for SCA as a business and now has a model for recording and measuring our GHG emissions for FY23 and future years. We conducted workshops to identify a long list of opportunities and then ranked opportunities according to their achievability and alignment with our strategic goals. We then created a short list of opportunities that are financially viable, technically mature, aligned with SCA’s strategy, and will result in material reductions in emissions and will continue to explore these opportunities.
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