AI & Automation Practitioner - Level 4 - Salford

BBC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

The BBC invites applications for an AI & Automation Practitioner apprenticeship, a fixed-term 18-month program based in Salford. You’ll learn on-the-job, gaining practical experience while working toward an industry apprenticeship standard with support from a learning provider.

You’ll study to earn your qualification while contributing to business analysis and operations teams. This scheme is aimed at non-graduates and includes relocation support where eligible.

Qualifications

• Enjoy identifying opportunities to improve workflow efficiency using digital tools.
• Has an enquiring mindset ready to evaluate how current systems and processes could be improved by the introduction of low-or no-code solutions including AI-driven automations to make workflows more efficient.
• Support other users to adopt AI, facilitating the responsible, safe and ethical use of AI, automation and digital solutions, ensuring they align with BBC policies.
• Are motivated and self-driven.

Responsibilities

• Gain hands-on experience designing, developing and implementing AI and automation solutions that improve processes, enhance efficiency and support innovation across the BBC.
• Develop your understanding of how emerging technologies, automation tools and artificial intelligence can be applied to solve business challenges and create value for teams and audiences.
• Build technical and analytical skills by working with data, identifying opportunities for automation, testing solutions and measuring their impact on business performance.
• Explore how technology, organisational strategy, data, people and processes work together and learn how AI and automation can drive digital transformation across a complex and dynamic organisation.

Skills

Workflow improvement

Enquiring mindset

AI adoption support

Self-motivated

Education

Maths and English GCSE

Job description

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Contract Type: Fixed-Term Apprenticeship, Full-time for 18 months

Department: Chief Operations & Portolio Office, BMA and Generative AI

Location: Salford - Quay House, Salford - Media City Studios

Salary: £24,650

COULD A BBC APPRENTICESHIP BE THE NEXT ROLE FOR YOU?

Join 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.

WHY JOIN THIS SCHEME?

Join the BBC as an AI & Automation Practitioner and help shape the future of the world's leading public service broadcaster in the digital and AI age. Work on real projects, develop sought-after skills in artificial intelligence, automation, and emerging technologies, and gain hands-on experience delivering innovative solutions that improve how we work and create content. With gold-standard training and a supportive team, you'll play a key role in driving digital transformation across the BBC. Ready to make an impact?

Want 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.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM?

Business Management & Administration Team: The Business Management & Administration (BMA) team plays a key role in supporting the BBC's Media Tech, Media Operations, and Corporate Functions teams. Working alongside colleagues across both business-aligned BMA teams and the BMA Hub, you'll help coordinate activities, support projects, and contribute to the efficient delivery of services that keep the BBC running.

You will have the opportunity to explore how emerging technologies, data, and AI-driven solutions can enhance business processes, improve ways of working, and support operational decision-making.

Media Operations Team: BBC MediaOperations is at the heart of teams delivering incredible content across all our platforms for all audiences. Comprising around nine hundred people, it manages the craft and production operations for the BBC's news, radio, and some sport services across London, Salford, and Birmingham – capturing, editing, and producing our output 24x7 for TV, radio, and digital platforms.

Join us as you develop your AI and Automation Practitioner skills, to help advance operations in our tech spaces and to plan our exciting delivery schedules.

Generative AI Team: Our team are at the forefront of exploring how AI can transform the way the BBC works. Bringing together AI engineers, data scientists and creative thinkers, we design and build innovative solutions to real-world challenges.

From helping journalists discover stories to automating complex workflows and exploring new ways to create content, we work with teams across the BBC to turn emerging technologies into practical, meaningful impact.

Business Analysis Team: The Business Analysis team provides analysis across the BBC on a wide range of Products and Projects , the team works with stakeholders to understand business problems, improve processes and assess potential solutions and their benefits.

As an early careers apprentice you will have the opportunity to get involved in activities such as supporting data analysis , exploring process mapping, understanding how AI and Automation works alongside business analysis, requirements engineering, stakeholder engagement, and benefits analysis. You will discover which areas of Business Analysis interest you and will be encouraged to try different tools & techniques .

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

• Gain hands-on experience designing, developing and implementing AI and automation solutions that improve processes, enhance efficiency and support innovation across the BBC.
• Develop your understanding of how emerging technologies, automation tools and artificial intelligence can be applied to solve business challenges and create value for teams and audiences.
• Build technical and analytical skills by working with data, identifying opportunities for automation, testing solutions and measuring their impact on business performance.
• Explore how technology, organisational strategy, data, people and processes work together and learn how AI and automation can drive digital transformation across a complex and dynamic organisation.

You’ll study for your industry recognised apprenticeship qualification, learning both on and off the job.The course blends applied academic and work-based learning to your role, complementing skills, focused on discussion and group work.

For more information on what you will study during the scheme, please see the AI & Automation Practitioner apprenticeship standard.

YOUR SKILLS AND ELIGIBILITY

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'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.

If 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:

• Enjoy identifying opportunities to improve workflow efficiency and productivity using digital tools.
• Has an enquiring mindset ready to evaluate how current systems and processes could be improved by the introduction of low-or no-code solutions including AI-driven automations to make workflows more efficient.
• Support other users to adopt AI, facilitating the responsible, safe and ethical use of AI, automation and digital solutions, ensuring they align with BBC policies.
• Aremotivated and self-driven.

This 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.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

To be eligible for an apprenticeship at the BBC, you must:

• Be 18 years old or over by the time the apprenticeship begins in September 2027.
• Have lived in the UK continuously for the last three years prior to the start of the apprenticeship.
• Be legally eligible to work full-time in the UK for the entire duration of the apprenticeship.
• Not currently be enrolled in another apprenticeship programme, whether with the BBC or another organisation.
• Not already hold a qualification in the same subject area at the same or a higher level than this apprenticeship.

To apply for this scheme, you must also:

• Have maths and English GCSE at Grade 4/C or above or National 5 (Scotland) at C or equivalent qualification

You’ll need to live within a commutable distance of where this role is based.

The 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.

This 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.

For 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. Further details can be found in the FAQs section of our careers site.