2025 Content Creation Apprentice - Level 3 Content Creator Apprenticeship

2025 Content Creation Apprentice - Level 3 Content Creator Apprenticeship

Start Date: 01 September 2025

Salary: £16,000 (age 16-18), £21,000 (age 19+) per annum

Employee type: Permanent

Working Schedule: 37 hours per week (8 hours Monday - Thursday, 5 hours on a Friday)

Location: Templecombe (could be based at Reading or Crawley)

Are you passionate about creating digital content? Do you have a creative mind?

Do you want to be part of an Apprenticeship Programme that will develop and challenge you? If so, read on to see what Thales has on offer…

What the role has to offer:

• Earn while you learn
• Job specific training experience
• Recognised qualifications
• Permanent role from day one

As a Content Creation Apprentice you will provide creative design support to our bid activities and projects, communications, marketing and functional campaigns for businesses throughout Thales in the UK, as well as supporting our events team with the production of events and exhibition material.  This will involve you supporting the creation of digital content, filming and making videos and animation and exploring the exciting world of 3D to support our sales community.

On a day-to-day basis, you’ll be involved in:

• Providing innovative design solutions to a diverse range of communications and marketing campaigns

• Developing the design solution for corporate publications and producing promotional displays and marketing brochures for Thales products, services and events
• Designing and developing environmental graphics, material for intranet web pages, interactive media, multimedia projects and compelling business winning graphics to support bid submissions
• Providing expertise and a creative input from the inception stage of design through to final production, where necessary co-ordinating work with other team members and undertaking liaison with customers to ensure the solution is explored, developed and delivered to the expected level
• Applying the latest graphic design techniques in order to maintain and enhance the increasing expectation and requirements of customers, fully using the potential of design packages and the skills of other team members
• Understanding and managing individual work packages across a number of related areas e.g. Engineering, Communications, Sales and Marketing
• Supporting activities across the company as required including Bid activities, Conferences, Exhibitions, site branding etc. (for this will include some ad-hoc travel)

Apprentice Programme

As a Content Creator Apprentice you will be enrolling onto a Level 3 Content Creator delivered over 18 months with our specialist external training partner. Training will be taught via a virtual delivery model consisting of virtual workshops, online learning and 1-2-1 coaching sessions. On completion of the apprenticeship and upon passing the End Point Assessment, you will roll off the programme into a role within the Thales UK business.

Requirements:

5 GCSEs grade 9-4 (A-C) including English and Maths.

Benefits

• 201 hours annual leave (plus a company day and bank holidays)
• Company Pension
• Health Care Cash Plan
• Life Insurance
• Discount Portal
• Performance-related pay uplifts
• 80 Hours Volunteering (first two years)

Please note, assessment centres for shortlisted candidates will be held between February and May 2025. Induction week for all Graduate and Apprentices will take place from Monday 01 September until Friday 05 September 2025.

Closing date: Our applications will close at 11.59pm on Sunday 16 February 2025, this is the only time we will be accepting applications this year. Please note, we will be in contact by the end of February 2025 with details of next steps.

As a Content Creator Apprentice you will be enrolling onto a Level 3 Content Creator delivered over 18 months with our specialist external training partner. Training will be taught via a virtual delivery model consisting of virtual workshops, online learning and 1-2-1 coaching sessions. On completion of the apprenticeship and upon passing the End Point Assessment, you will roll off the programme into a role within the Thales UK business.

Requirements:

5 GCSEs grade 9-4 (A-C) including English and Maths.

Benefits

• 201 hours annual leave (plus a company day and bank holidays)
• Company Pension
• Health Care Cash Plan
• Life Insurance
• Discount Portal
• Performance-related pay uplifts
• 80 Hours Volunteering (first two years)

Please note, assessment centres for shortlisted candidates will be held between February and May 2025. Induction week for all Graduate and Apprentices will take place from Monday 01 September until Friday 05 September 2025.

Closing date: Our applications will close at 11.59pm on Sunday 16 February 2025, this is the only time we will be accepting applications this year. Please note, we will be in contact by the end of February 2025 with details of next steps.