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Contract Type: 17 Months Fixed-Term Contract
Location: London
Salary: £21,840 (+ £5,318 London Living Allowance)
An apprenticeship at the BBC gives you the opportunity to kick-start your career in a job you'll love. We're the industry leaders in early careers and are committed to your skills and talent development. As one of the world's most creative and technologically advanced organisations for the last 100 years, an apprenticeship at the BBC means the opportunity to learn from the most respected and experienced professionals in the business.
The Production Apprenticeship Scheme helps you to gain experience with our BBC production teams across the UK, making world-class content for our audiences on radio, TV or digital platforms. You'll learn on-the-job as part of a BBC production team, developing your knowledge and skills in an area that interests you, while working towards your Production apprenticeship qualification with one of our learning providers.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
What will you be doing on the apprenticeship?
As a Production Apprentice, you'll learn a wide range of skills and gain a breadth of real-life experience which may include helping to develop ideas and stories; learning how to use technical equipment and specialist software; assisting your team on location/in studio; finding guests and participants; researching content; creating content for social media; helping out/'running' on the studio floor; in a TV gallery or in a radio studio. All the while, you'll be learning content-making skills from experienced production team members as well as expert BBC trainers.
What will you be studying?
You'll study for your industry-recognised apprenticeship qualification, learning both on and off the job. This involves learning about audiences, how production teams work, content making in audio and video as well as skills to equip you for a career in production at the BBC or in the wider creative industry.
Where could the role take you?
On successful completion of your apprenticeship, you will be able to look for job opportunities inside or outside the BBC such as Runner, Junior Researcher, Content Assistant or Edit Assistant, Technical Operator (depending on your placement choice).
This scheme starts in September 2025 and you will be on a fixed-term contract which means your contract is for the duration of the apprenticeship only. The duration of this scheme is 17 months.
A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE PLACEMENT
As a Production Apprentice in BBC Live Music & Events, you will work as part of Radio 1 Big Weekend, Radio 2 in the Park, 6 Music Festival, or Asian Network live. The Live Music team work across a variety of BBC and Festivals events and deliver hundreds of Live Music sessions to ensure popular music is at the Heart of BBC output. As a team, we work to bring people together for unforgettable live music content, reflecting the musical diversity of the UK.
As an apprentice working in Live Events with BBC Popular Music you can expect to work across a huge variety of music moments for Radio 1, Radio 2, 6 Music, Asian Network, 1Xtra and BBC Introducing. You'll be assigned to work with a Live Music Producer to learn about key skills and responsibilities and support the live music production. As your confidence grows you will be assigned to develop your skills and experience in live music.
Tasks you can expect to be involved with include: creating production schedules; coordinating the technical requirements for live music recording; editing music for broadcast, preparing the studio for live music broadcast and planning and organising live music broadcasts.
Places on this Production apprenticeship are available in a number of teams in this location. To view the other placements in this location click here. Please note that the placement you choose will determine the department you will work in for the duration of your apprenticeship if you are selected. You are only able to apply for one department/placement per location for this scheme and any subsequent applications for that location will be withdrawn.
ARE YOU THE RIGHT CANDIDATE?
We're interested in your passion for working at the BBC and your enthusiasm for delivering world-class content and operational excellence to our audiences. We look for positive people who live our values and ensure our culture remains inclusive and full of opportunities. We're not focused on your qualifications; instead, we look for potential and offer you the opportunity to apply your transferable strengths and experience to work in different ways.
Throughout the selection process, we'll be looking for evidence of how you demonstrate each of the BBC's values and behaviours. Our values guide everything we do. They define what you can expect from the BBC and what the BBC expects from you. Find out more about our values here.
Great Production Apprentices are those who can demonstrate they: