Data Analytics & Reporting Apprentice

Job Title:

Data Analytics & Reporting Apprentice

Reports to:

Reporting Manager

Department:

Strategy & Consumer Insight

Location:

Leeds

Number of roles:

2

Start:

September 2025

THE C4 APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMME

If you are looking for an opportunity to gain work experience and a qualification, then an apprenticeship at Channel 4 might be for you.

Our Apprenticeships are full-time, with four days per week spent working in a C4 department and one day per week completing the formal learning parts of the apprenticeship. You’ll spend 60% of your working week in your office base and 40% working from home.

The formal training provided will consist of workshops, tutorials, webinars, coaching and in some cases residential boot camps.

AM I ELIGIBLE TO APPLY?

1. You must be 18 years old or over at the time the scheme starts to apply. There is no upper age limit.
2. You’ll need to have a Grade C (4) or above in Maths & English GCSE.
3. You can’t have already completed the qualification being offered or similar at the same or higher level.
4. Our apprenticeships are aimed at school leavers and people who do not have a degree. If you have a degree, please visit the Channel 4 Jobs website.

DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION

The Strategy, Policy & Insight team provides expert advice bringing expert strategy, policy, market & audience insight – challenging and advising the business to drive delivery of Channel 4’s strategy and remit. The new Audience Insights team is focused on using data to support Channel 4’s creative and business decisions.

KEY RESPONSIBILITES

• Assist the Insight function with reporting and analysis of the performance of C4’s linear, streaming, short-form and social media content and transforming it into meaningful insight.
• Help colleagues to use data to drive the strategy of Channel 4, based on analysis, experimentation, and competitive intelligence.
• Integrate the performance of our data across streaming, social and linear and bring together meaningful stories from these datasets.
• Work with your line manager to set benchmarks and targets for digital strategies, building automated ways to measure them, and reporting them back to key stakeholders.
• Conduct competitor analysis on other content types, brands, channels using the insights to guide digital content strategies.
• Highlight content trends in ongoing output, and proactively anticipate industry trends.
• Support product and social decisions and assist in defining and challenging new tactics and strategies via creative thinking.
• Learn to develop dashboards using data visualisation tools such as Tableau and PowerBI, and programming languages such as SQL, Python and R.

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE & SKILLS

As part of the application process you’ll be asked to tell us how you meet the essential criteria listed below. When answering this question think about examples from your experience so far, this doesn’t need to be professional experience but could be academic, from volunteering or a part-time job.

• Verbal and written communication skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Organisation skills and ability to prioritise tasks.
• An understanding of and a passion for Channel 4's remit.
• Confirm you have Maths & English GCSE Grade C (4) or above.
• Comfortable working with statistics, mathematics, and algebra.
• Ability to undertake research and develop a simple narrative from this.
• An understanding of the user experience of social media platforms.
• A basic understanding of excel.

QUALIFICATION OFFERED WITH THIS APPRENTICESHIP

Level 4 Data Analytics

LENGTH OF APPRENTICESHIP

16-21 months

SALARY

£24,328

APPLICATIONS CLOSE DATE

10 Mar 2025

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

Channel 4’s purpose is to create change through entertainment; by representing unheard voices, challenging with purpose and delivering content which reflects the diversity of different communities across the UK.

DISABILITY CONFIDENT SCHEME

Channel 4 is a member of the Business Disability Forum (BDF) and has also maintained the highest level of the Department of Work and Pension's Disability Confident scheme - Level 3: Leader.

CARE LEAVER FRIENDLY EMPLOYER

Channel 4 is a Care Leaver Friendly Employer.

WORKPLACE ADJUSTMENTS

We are committed to providing disabled applicants a level playing field when applying for a job and support whilst employed to perform to the best of their ability and develop their careers.