{"id":3675872,"url":"https://alion.io/job/bbc-production-assistant-apprenticeship-level-3-bbc-introducing-leeds","title":"Production Assistant Apprenticeship - Level 3 - BBC Introducing - Leeds","company":{"id":11332,"name":"BBC","domain":"bbc.co.uk","url":"https://alion.io/company/bbc-uk","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":null},"role":"Early Careers","role_family":"Early Careers","seniority":"intern","employment_type":"internship","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Leeds, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-03T11:01:46Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-03","last_verified_at":"2026-11-04T10:20:26Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed-term Apprenticeship, Full-time for 13 months\nDEPARTMENT: BBC Introducing\nLOCATION: Leeds - Broadcasting Centre\nSALARY: £24,650\nCOULD A BBC APPRENTICESHIP BE THE NEXT ROLE FOR YOU?\nJoin us as an apprentice at the BBC to give yourself the opportunity to kick-start your career in a job you'll love. We’re committed to your skills and talent development. You’ll learn on-the-job, developing your knowledge and skills in an area that interests you, whilst working towards your apprenticeship qualification with one of our learning providers.\nWHY JOIN THIS SCHEME?\nThis is your chance to launch a career at the very heart of British broadcasting. We're looking for individuals with a passion to find out how we make content and bring ideas to life. Depending on your placement area, you could be working behind the scenes on exciting productions, from gripping dramas to the thrill of live radio, and gain a recognised qualification while learning on the job. This is your opportunity to broaden your production knowledge while working on content that matters to millions.\nWant to find out more? Watch recordings from our webinar series on our Life at the BBC YouTube playlist to learn more about this scheme and other opportunities we offer, and hear from current apprentices about their experiences.\nPlaces on the Production Assistant Apprenticeship are available across a range of teams at this location, as well as in other locations. You can find details on other placements in this location on the BBC Early Careers website.\nWHY JOIN THE TEAM?\nBBC Introducing supports exciting new music from across the UK. Working within BBC Radio Leeds, you’ll listen to new music, carry out research, edit audio, support programme teams, create content and may help deliver live events and sessions. You'll also have the opportunity to work with the wider Radio Leeds team on station projects. We’re looking for someone really passionate about music, radio and social media. You'll need to be organised, creative and confident working under pressure in a busy, fast-moving broadcasting environment. You must live in the area you’re applying for.\nAs a Production Assistant Apprentice at the BBC, you'll gain hands-on experience across a range of projects, from supporting high-profile productions to contributing to content enjoyed by audiences across the UK. You'll work alongside experienced professionals, develop practical skills and play an active role in bringing creative ideas to life. This apprenticeship could lead to job opportunities as a:\nJunior Researcher\nRunner\nContent or Edit Assistant\nYOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT\nAs a Production Assistant Apprentice within BBC Introducing, this is a brilliant opportunity to learn, grow, and contribute. You could be:\nHelping to develop ideas and stories by researching content and finding guests and participants.\nGaining real-life experience by assisting your team on location, in the studio, or in a TV gallery and helping out on the studio floor.\nLearning to use technical equipment and specialist software by supporting teams with cameras, sound, lighting, and editing.\nCreating content for multiple platforms, including social media, under the guidance of experienced professionals.\nYou’ll study for your industry recognised apprenticeship qualification, learning both on and off the job. This means that as well as learning on your placement at the BBC, you’ll also attend learning blocks (up to a week at a time) with our learning provider, working towards an industry recognised apprenticeship qualification - Level 3 Production Assistant. Learning blocks will be a mixture of in-person and virtual delivery including tutorial sessions, presentations and group work.\nAs part of the programme, you will be required to travel to attend in-person learning blocks and other apprenticeship-related activities where necessary.\nFor more information on this apprenticeship standard you will be studying, please see detail on the Production Assistant apprenticeship standard.\nYOUR SKILLS AND ELIGIBILITY\nWe’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’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.\nIf you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply:\nPassionate and curious about content, and the production process at the BBC \nBrimming with new ideas and fresh perspectives for BBC content\nA great team player who can deal with unexpected challenges \nFlexible and have an adaptable approach to work to help enable our content to be delivered.\nThis scheme is aimed at non-graduates. If you have a degree and you’re interested in similar roles at the BBC, we recommend applying for jobs at the BBC careers site or having a look at our other apprenticeship schemes.\nELIGIBILITY CRITERIA\nTo be eligible for an apprenticeship at the BBC, you must:\nBe 18 years old or over by the time the apprenticeship begins in September 2027\nHave lived in the UK continuously for the last three years prior to the start of the apprenticeship\nBe legally eligible to work full-time in the UK for the entire duration of the apprenticeship\nNot currently be enrolled in another apprenticeship programme, whether with the BBC or another organisation\nFor candidates under the age of 19 years on 7 September 2027: To complete the apprenticeship, you must have achieved Maths and English GCSE at Grade 4/C or above or National 5 (Scotland) at C or Functional Skills Level 2 or equivalent qualification. If you have not achieved these qualifications by the start of your apprenticeship, you will be required to achieve Functional Skills Level 2 before the apprenticeship assessment when you take your end-point assessment.\nREADY TO APPLY?\nDon’t leave yourself wondering “what if?” this could be your chance to be part of something exciting. See yourself thriving in this role? Just click ‘Apply Now’!\nYou’ll create a candidate profile and answer a few questions - noCV or cover letter needed.\nIf you're eligible, we’ll guide you through the next steps of the process and what to expect.\nYou’ll need to live within a commutable distance of where this role is based. Interested in a different location? Check out our other adverts - but please only apply to one.\nThis is a fixed-term apprenticeship - your contract lasts for the duration of the scheme.Once you have completed your apprenticeship, you will be able to apply for any suitable open vacancies at the BBC or outside in the wider creative industry. You’ll be supported with career development, employability training, and networking opportunities to help you take your next step.\nThe BBC recognises that you may need to relocate to a new location to take up a BBC Apprenticeship scheme. The cost of relocating can be a barrier for some applicants and where that is a barrier to participation, we want to help where we can. To help ensure our apprenticeship opportunities are accessible to people from a wide range of backgrounds, a limited number of relocation support awards are available each year for those who meet our financial eligibility criteria. Relocation financial support is available for this role, subject to meeting the financial eligibility criteria. Further information will be shared with applicants during the recruitment process. Details on the wider support, initiatives and networks available at the BBC can be found on our careers site.\nFor apprenticeship opportunities, disabled applicants who choose to apply under the Disability Confident Scheme and who meet the minimum criteria for the role will normally be progressed to the next stage of the recruitment process. For most of our campaigns, this would be an online assessment designed to assess your skills, motivations and suitability for the role. 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