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APRA AMCOS is a member-owned music rights management organisation, positioned at the intersection of music, data and technology. We have more than 124,000 members who are songwriters, composers and music publishers. We license organisations to play, perform, copy or record our members’ music, and we distribute the royalties to our members.

We are seeking a Copyright Ownership Administrator to join the Quality Assurance team in the Repertoire department based in the Sydney Office. The role is a full-time permanent opportunity reporting to the Team Leader, Quality Assurance. The Repertoire department plays an important part in facilitating APRA AMCOS’ core service of royalty distributions to members and affiliate societies and the role will suit people with a strong knowledge of music and an interest in copyright, plus strong analytical, research, and problem-solving skills.

**Key duties and responsibilities**:
The core tasks for this role involve musical works identification, works ownership maintenance and integrity checking, with the aim of enabling the accurate and successful distribution of royalties for APRA AMCOS repertoire. Liaising closely with your colleagues in Publisher Services and Music Licensing & Operations, you will be using musical work registrations and agreement information plus international databases and research tools to maintain and/or verify the accuracy of work ownership information for Licensing purposes and accurate, efficient distributions of APRA AMCOS royalties.

**To thrive in this role, you will need**:

- Some knowledge of APRA AMCOS’ business
- Good understanding of copyright for musical works
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
- Strong numeracy
- Attention to detail
- Strong organisation and prioritisation skills
- MS Office suite (intermediate MS Excel highly desirable)
- Strong research skills, especially the effective and efficient use of search engines, online resources, and databases
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- A proactive and supportive team player who can work well unsupervised

Strong music knowledge across multiple genres

**What You'll Love**:

- Our friendly and collaborative work environment. Our team thrives on our values of collaboration, respect, skill, imagination, and accountability.
- Hybrid work options, combining the convenience of remote work with in-office collaboration

Generous employee benefits such as: learning and development programs; 18 weeks paid parental leave; discounted private health benefits; novated lease vehicles arrangements; access to financial services; employee assistance programs and more.

**How to Apply**:
**_Please Note: _**_Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. All applicants must have current and valid working rights in Australia or New Zealand.