Salary: £21,840 (+ £5,318 London Living Allowance)
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract
Location: London
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.
Are you a natural organiser? Are you the person that family and friends turn to when a day out, get together or party needs arranging? Do you like the sound of sending film crews on location, helping to set up the studios where you record shows like TV’s The One Show or Radio’s Woman’s Hour or Live Lounge and help schedule the staff to work on these programmes? If you have a passion for working in the media industry but are unsure where to start, consider the Junior Production Coordinator Apprenticeship. This opportunity allows you to use your problem-solving skills to contribute to delivering world-class content to audiences worldwide.
You don’t need any experience of working in the media industry or a CV jammed full of academic qualifications. You might be about to finish school/college, start your first job or you may want to change career paths. Either way, as long as you’re over 18 when the apprenticeship starts, and have a passion for the work involved in production management, this could be your next step towards an exciting career at one of the most creative and best known broadcasting organisations in the world.
You’ve got to be interested now, right?
What will you be doing on the apprenticeship?
As a Junior Production Coordinator Apprentice, you will gain hands-on experience in how content creation comes together, from concept to reaching the audience, in TV/ Audio or content for online. You will learn a wide range of skills which may include preparing for shoots or live radio studios and recordings; coordinating transport; booking kit and crews; issuing information the teams need via ‘call sheets’; assisting with the management of budgets and assisting with coordinating staff training; helping on the studio floor, in the TV gallery or on the BBC’s radio stations such as Radio 1, 1Xtra or Asian Network and ensuring that everyone gets paid! All the while you’ll be learning best practice from expert BBC production management teams - making sure everyone has everything they need to film/record events; checking rules and regulations so that crews/teams can work safely and ensuring everything is documented, filed and in line with privacy and licensing policies.
What will you be studying?
You’ll study for your industry recognised apprenticeship qualification, learning both on the job at the BBC and off the job with our chosen education provider. The academic study involves attending instructor-led workshops; tutorial sessions; presentations and group work. Throughout your apprenticeship, you will be asked to gather a portfolio of evidence and work on an End Point Assessment that demonstrates your learning, while working towards a level 4 apprenticeship qualification. This apprenticeship will give you a thorough knowledge and understanding of what it is like to work in Production Management and the media industry, which you can then utilise during your time at the BBC and afterwards in the wider industry.
Where could the role take you?
On successful completion of your apprenticeship, you will be able to apply for job roles such as a Production Management Assistant, Production Secretary or Production Coordinator both inside and outside of the BBC.
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.
BBC Audio - Speech Radio
The production teams in BBC Audio create and deliver more than 100 hours of original audio every day across Radio 1, 1Xtra, The Asian Network, Radio 2, 6Music, Radio 3, Radio 4 and the World Service, as well as content for BBC Sounds. Our podcasts and radio programmes are heard around the world. We work with some of the biggest names in music, entertainment and journalism and bring the greatest festivals and events to life for our audiences. You could expect to work with the teams making speech programmes for Radio 4 such as Woman’s Hour and Front Row or working with the teams producing weekly programmes for Radio 4 such as The Media Show and Start the Week. Our teams make programmes for 1Xtra and Asian Network in Birmingham – and The Archers. Radio 1 and 6 Music programmes are made in London and Salford. We produce the daytime programmes on Radio 2 and a variety of programmes on 6Music. If you are interested in Classical music, we have teams in London and we have a team making classical music programmes from Salford. BBC Audio also produces programmes in London for the World Service including Outlook and The Conversation. If you’re enthusiastic about audio production, speech and music – this could be just the placement for you!
The Production Management Assistant (PMA) supports the production teams providing administrative assistance to them to ensure the smooth and efficient running of productions. This could be meeting and greeting guests, working in studios, typing up running orders and scripts, organising production meetings, arranging contributors/staff travel and processing any payments needed, as well as completing any production paperwork and in some cases scheduling resources to productions. Essentially the PMA role is supporting the production teams, whether in the office (where most audio production takes place), in studio or on location, planning and co-ordinating the teams and productions
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.
Junior Production Coordinator Apprentices are those who can demonstrate they:
To be eligible for an apprenticeship at the BBC, you must:
To apply for this scheme, you must also:
During your Apprenticeship:
Towards the end of your apprenticeship:
