Project Manager Degree Apprenticeship - Level 6 - Product Operations Team - London
BBC Public Service
London (W1A 1AA)
Closes in 6 days (Thursday 13 November 2025)
Posted on 6 November 2025
Contents
Summary
Kickstart your career in project management with a BBC apprenticeship. Gain hands-on experience and expert training while helping deliver real projects across dynamic teams. Learn practical skills, apply best practices, and contribute to one of the world’s leading media organisations.
- Wage
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£22,950 a year
- Training course
- Project manager (integrated degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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48 months - 35 hours per week.
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 8 September 2026
- Duration
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4 years
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
As a Project Manager Apprentice with the BBC Product Operations team, you’ll work with experienced professionals and contribute to impactful projects. As part of your daily activities, you may:
- Prepare executive briefings, reports, and audit materials.
- Organise governance and assurance documentation.
- Track and resolve risks, issues, and actions.
- Support meetings, reporting deadlines, and stakeholder communications
Where you'll work
New Broadcasting House
Portland Place
London
W1A 1AA
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA
Training course
Project manager (integrated degree) (level 6)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- 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.
Training schedule
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).
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
A Level in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
Have a passion to learn more about Business Management or Project Management. Want to work with data or with business management information on a regular basis, generating reports, analysing data or using spreadsheets. Demonstrating great attention to detail. Are motivated, accountable and self-driven. You should be an effective team player with the ability to communicate with various stakeholders both internally and externally
About this employer
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.
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
This is a fixed-term apprenticeship - your contract lasts for the duration of the scheme.
Once completed, you’ll be supported with career development, employability training, and networking opportunities to help you take your next step - whether that’s at the BBC or elsewhere in the industry.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA
earlycareersrecruitment@bbc.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000349885.
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