Apply now to Become a Peer Assessor (Australia)

A peer is anyone who has sufficient knowledge or experience of the arts sector to make a fair and informed assessment of applications for funding. You may have developed this knowledge and experience as a practising artist, creative worker or industry expert in one or more art forms.

Each year, Creative Australia invests in arts organisations and individual artists across the country. Peers bring expertise, knowledge of the arts, and independence from the Australian Government to grant decision making. Peer assessment and arm’s length funding are guiding principles of Creative Australia. They ensure that funding is offered to artists and arts organisations whose proposals, in competition with those of other applicants and within budget constraints, demonstrate the highest degree of merit against the published assessment criteria.

Funding Information

• Peer fees are determined based on the number of applications assessed plus the length of the meeting.
• They pay superannuation in accordance with the Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992.

Eligibility Criteria

• This opportunity is open to:
  • Australian citizens or Australian permanent residents
  • people who are practising artists, creative workers, or advisors to the arts industry
  • people with an in-depth understanding of the arts sector and current art form practice, including international trends and markets, or with specialist knowledge of an area of arts development or capability building.
• Creative Australia is committed to increasing the diversity of the Pool of Peers.
• Applications from First Nations people, d/Deaf people or people with disability and people based in regional and remote Australia are greatly needed on all their panels. They also strongly encourage applications from younger people, older people, as well as people who identify as culturally and linguistically diverse.

For more information, visit Creative Australia.