Description
Join the BBC as an AI & Automation Practitioner apprentice and help shape the future of the world's leading public service broadcaster in the digital and AI age.
You will 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 the BBC works and creates content.
Key Responsibilities and Impact
As an AI & Automation Practitioner (AAP27) apprentice, you will:
- 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.
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.
- Have 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.
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.
Benefits
As an apprentice at the BBC, you will receive:
- An industry-recognised qualification.
- Industry-leading training through the BBC Academy and our learning providers (this may involve travel to locations across the UK).
- A dedicated Team Manager and Scheme Specialist to help with your development.
- Training and Mentoring by industry professionals.
- A bespoke BBC apprenticeship experience including apprenticeship development days and membership of the BBC Apprenticeship community.
- Employability and networking training and support to help you secure your next role.