Production Assistant Apprenticeship - Level 3 - Live Music

BBC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

The BBC is inviting applicants for a Production Assistant Apprentice in Live Music at London Broadcasting House. You will learn on the job, gaining experience across major BBC events and live music productions while working toward a Level 3 Production Assistant apprenticeship.

You will join a team delivering Live Music sessions for BBC Radio channels, with a focus on production skills, teamwork, and content delivery across diverse events and venues.

Qualifications

• This scheme is aimed at non-graduates.
• You will learn on-the-job while working towards an apprenticeship qualification.
• You will study blocks with a learning provider as part of the programme.

Responsibilities

• Create Production Schedules.
• Coordinate technical requirements for Live Music Recording.
• Edit Music for broadcast.
• Plan and coordinate Live Music broadcasts.
• Prepare the studio for Live Music broadcasts.

Skills

Passionate and curious about content

Fresh ideas and perspectives

Team player

Flexible and adaptable

Job description

CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed-term Apprenticeship, Full-time for 13 months
DEPARTMENT: Live Music
LOCATION: London - London Broadcasting House
SALARY: £24,650 [+£5,441 London weighting]

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?

This 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.

The BBC Production Assistant 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 bringing people together for unforgettable live music content, reflecting the musical diversity of the UK.

As a Live Events Production Assistant Apprentice 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 with our Live Music team 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.

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.

Places 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.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM?

The BBC Production Assistant 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 bringing people together for unforgettable live music content, reflecting the musical diversity of the UK.

As a Live Events Production Assistant Apprentice 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 with our Live Music team 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.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

As a Production Assistant Apprentice within BBC Live Music, this is a brilliant opportunity to learn, grow, and contribute. You could be:

• Create Production Schedules
• Coordinate the technical requirements for Live Music Recording
• Edit Music for broadcast
• Plan and coordinate Live Music broadcast
• Preparing the studio for Live Music broadcast

You’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.

As part of the programme, you will be required to travel to attend in-person learning blocks and other apprenticeship-related activities where necessary.

For more information on this apprenticeship standard you will be studying, please see detail on the Production Assistant 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:

• Passionate and curious about content, and the production process at the BBC
• Brimming with new ideas and fresh perspectives for BBC content
• A great team player who can deal with unexpected challenges
• Flexible and have an adaptable approach to work to help enable our content to be delivered.

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

For 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.