Jobs at Bbc in United Kingdom

Join the BBC as a Project Management apprentice in Broadcast & End User Technology. Help deliver major projects – from studio upgrades to site builds – while gaining hands‑on experience and expert training. Learn to manage budgets, timelines and tech that powers award‑winning BBC content. As a Project Manager Apprentice with the BBC Broadcast & End User team, you’ll work with experienced professionals and contribute to impactful projects. As part of your daily activities, you may:

• Manage various administrative and reporting tasks to a deadline
• Communicate with stakeholders impacted by projects and provide timely updates
• Take ownership of small‑scale projects and support the delivery of medium and large‑scale initiatives
• Get hands‑on experience in technical delivery activities. Apply project management methods learned during your academic studies
• Learn about cutting‑edge broadcast technology and the IT and network infrastructure that supports it, Governance Frameworks: Lead and take responsibility for the project management plan as required by the governance structure. Apply techniques and project management methodologies as appropriate, dependent upon project complexity and criticality to the organisational environment in which a project is being delivered. Maintain, review and communicate a project business case for approval through the stages of a typical project lifecycle ensuring continued value for money and continued alignment with organisational objectives.
• The Business Environment: Identify and analyse the context, opportunities and challenges presented by projects in a range of organisational settings, appreciating the differences within both large and small organisations and in different industry sectors and the consequent need for tailoring. Identify the operating constraints that apply to projects including ethical, legal and regulatory considerations. This may include the green economy and the impacts of strategies for achieving net carbon zero by 2050.
• Stakeholder and communications management: Lead and take responsibility for the identification and analysis of internal and external stakeholders and their impact on the project. Manage an effective project communication plan across stakeholders with different cultural and physical barriers. Analyse information and communicate with stakeholders incorporating elements of feedback to understand and measure the effectiveness of planned communications. Effectively listen and influence others through negotiation and persuasion.
• Control of projects in terms of time, cost and quality: Manage the project within the constraints of time, cost and quality. Control expenditure and produce status reports as required, including control of costs against budgets, forecasting, and establishing performance indicators as required by funding sources. Measure progress and actual costs against plans to determine a full understanding of project performance. Identify, achieve and maintain quality standards appropriate to the context and specific requirements of project activities.
• Risk Management: Ensure that project risks, opportunities and issues are addressed using quantitative and qualitative methods to categorise risks and their impacts. Identify, evaluate and implement appropriate mitigation strategies, ensuring that mitigation actions are incorporated into the project plan and are implemented should they develop into issues. Manage risk through the regular review of a risk management plan, adopting appropriate strategies to manage both threats and opportunities.
• Commercial and Contract management: Maintain and evaluate different commercial contract and procurement types to select appropriate options for specific programmes and projects. Support effective contract management and the achievement of programme and project outcomes.
• Project Change Control: Dependent upon the size and complexity of a project, define and apply a recognised process to manage change in projects. Make effective decisions in the interests of a range of stakeholders with regards to change requests. Handle change within different project management methodologies.
• Schedule Management: Evaluate requirements and methods for data capture and analysis in a project environment. Evaluate project schedule integrity including identification and resolution of scheduling problems. Apply resource acquisition and management techniques to balance programme and project needs against resource demand. Negotiate the allocation and scheduling of internal and external resources to meet programme and project demands.

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, practical and library‑based research, presentations, group work and real‑world simulated projects.

The apprenticeship programme is structured across 3 learning levels:

• Level 4: Covers Business Environment, Stakeholder Management, and Project Planning & Control
• Level 5: Focuses on Project Management Professionalism and Professional Development
• Level 6: Includes Programme & Portfolio Management, Project Leadership & Governance, and Change & Risk Management

The programme concludes with an integrated End Point Assessment (EPA).

GCSE in: English and Maths (grade 4/C or above)
A Level in: Level 3 qualification(s) that equate to 96 UCAS (grade achieved)

• Communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Problem solving skills
• Presentation skills
• Administrative skills
• Logical thinking
• Team working
• Creative thinking
• Initiative
• Non‑judgemental attitude
• Patience

You should be an effective team player with the ability to communicate with various stakeholders both internally and externally. Demonstrating great attention to detail and motivation, accountability and self‑drive are essential. A passion to learn more about Business Management or Project Management is required. You should be interested in working with data, business management information on a regular basis, generating reports, analysing data or using spreadsheets.

We are a leading early careers employer and hire more than 250 apprentices each year. We are committed to skills and talent development both inside and outside the BBC and, as one of the world’s most creative and technologically‑advanced organisations for the last 100 years, a career at the BBC means learning from the best. We want people who show potential to join us at the BBC. Don’t worry if you don’t have extensive experience – it’s your passion and values we are interested in.