Monday, 1 February 2016

BBC apprenticeship

BBC Children’s, CBeebies and CBBC Development, Apprentice Production Management Assistant

We have exciting new Apprenticeship roles to fill at BBC North.  The CBeebies and CBBC Development teams at BBC Children’s are looking for new Apprentice Production Management Assistants. 


Role

As the Apprentice Production Management Assistant, you'll provide administrative support to the development teams of both CBBC and CBeebies. You will also provide cover for the Personal Assistants in both areas and gain experience in diary management.

Your duties will also include helping to manage and monitor production budgets, ensuring that all post production paperwork is complete and supporting the production management team by working in studio and location.

This is an ideal position for someone with great inter-personal skills to start and develop their administration career in a busy television production environment.  By the end of your Apprenticeship you'll have gained an Advanced Apprenticeship in Business Administration at Level 3. The salary is £12,500 per annum.
Department
BBC Children's is committed to offering the best cross-platform and on-demand service for all UK children, providing a trusted environment which is enriching, enabling and relevant to the under 12's. Our content seeks to entertain, inform and empower children, adding real value to their lives.

CBeebies is dedicated to delighting and surprising its young audience and it remains the UK's most watched and most loved channel for the under-sixes. Our most popular shows include In the Night Garden, Gigglebiz, Octonauts, Swashbuckle and Topsy and Tim. Some of our new shows include Spot Bots and Footy Pups together with new episodes of the popular series Something Special and Teletubbies.

CBBC is the most-loved and most-watched channel of children in its target age group. A quarter of children (6-12) tune into the CBBC channel each week, with around 1m unique users visiting the website.  CBBC aims to encourage children to find out more about existing interests and inspire them to develop new ones; helps them understand the world around them and provides an entertaining watch when they just want to relax. Our most popular shows include The Dumping Ground, Hank Zipzer, The Next Step, and My Life and the long-running Blue Peter and Newsround, as well as new shows such as The Dengineers and new episodes of the popular series Dangermouse.

Requirements


For a full job description and full details on how to apply, please click on the following link:

This post is available for anyone aged 18 years and over and from the Greater Manchester area only. Anyone with - or without - GCSEs or A levels is eligible to apply. In fact you may not even have a GCSE qualification in English and Maths (A-C) but you’ll need to be able to work at this level. You are not eligible to apply if you have or are currently working towards Level 4 qualifications (e.g. Level 4 apprenticeship, foundation degree), or anything higher (eg. a full degree.)
Applications are now welcome for this post, but the deadline for completed applications is Sunday 14th February at 11.59pm (midnight). Make sure that you read the application guidelines in the link above fully before you start to apply.

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