Junior Production Coordinator Apprenticeship - Level 4 - Salford - News & Current Affairs
BBC Public Service
Salford (M50 2QH)
Closes in 23 days (Sunday 11 January 2026)
Posted on 19 December 2025
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Summary
BBC News & Current Affairs creates award-winning documentaries, investigations, podcasts, and live broadcasts like Panorama, Africa Eye, and Newsround. As a Junior Production Coordinator apprentice, you’ll support planning, logistics, and delivery across TV, audio, and digital platforms.
- Wage
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£22,950 a year
- Training course
- Junior production coordinator (level 4)
- Hours
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17 months - 35 hours per week. Shifts to be confirmed.
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 8 September 2026
- Duration
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1 year 5 months
- 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 Junior Production Coordinator apprentice with News & Current Affairs, this is a brilliant opportunity to learn, grow, and contribute - you may demonstrate the following:
- Assist with travel logistics, shoots, audio programmes, studio setups, crew bookings, and call sheets
- Support budget management and cost monitoring
- Support staff management and scheduling
- Assist with data and/or media management and production reporting
- Learn best practices in production management, and BBC policies and compliance
Where you'll work
Salford
M50 2QH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BAUER RADIO LIMITED
Training course
Junior production coordinator (level 4)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Operate within agreed organisational policies, standards and procedures; adapting to operational changes as they occur.
- Meet the needs of the creative team, such as technical, logistical or organisational requirements and be aware of the impact this can have on the production such as budget.
- Create, maintain and share production documentation and records such as schedules, call sheets, show plans, technical requisitions, client feedback, review notes.
- Research and assist with sourcing or booking of resources, crew, contributors, talent or suppliers to meet production requirements.
- Monitor the use of resources such as production materials, equipment and supplies.
- Coordinate logistics or travel activity for the production, liaising with other departments when required.
- Collaborate with the production team to check that the final product is delivered to industry standards including technical and legal requirements.
- Monitor the production schedule to ensure that changing priorities or deadlines are communicated to the team.
- Prioritise the work to ensure that tasks are completed on schedule.
- Resolve, and where required escalate, faults, incidents or problems, within agreed policies and procedures.
- Contribute to the monitoring and compliance for the production relating to legal, regulatory, organisational and industry codes of practice.
- Build relationships with partners on productions such as cast, crew, and contributors.
- Liaise with other departments, acting as a point of contact on the production.
- Keep up to date with tools, standards, trends and emerging technologies and their use and impact across the sector.
- Operate within legislation, regulations, organisational policies, industry standards and procedures such as health and safety, confidentiality, security.
- Follow sustainable practices in line with industry standard recommendations.
- Promote and market skills and services.
- Assist with establishing sources of copyright for the materials being used on a production.
- Obtain terms and conditions from copyright owners and license holders acting as a point of contact when required.
- Prepare deliverables documentation in readiness for handover such as billings, schedules, production promotion, presentation and support material such as online, stills or press packages.
- Act as intermediary between the production team and the technical or creative teams, utilising knowledge of the post-production process, workflows and functions.
- Support the production team by liaising with counterparts in external organisations such as clients or other vendors to facilitate communication, meeting arrangements, deliverables or queries.
- Manage the delivery process of materials to clients or external companies, keeping parties informed of progress and change.
- Operate within agreed organisational policies, standards and procedures; adapting to operational changes as they occur.
- Meet the needs of the creative team, such as technical, logistical or organisational requirements and be aware of the impact this can have on the production such as budget.
- Create, maintain and share production documentation and records such as schedules, call sheets, show plans, technical requisitions, client feedback, review notes.
- Research and assist with sourcing or booking of resources, crew, contributors, talent or suppliers to meet production requirements.
- Monitor the use of resources such as production materials, equipment and supplies.
- Coordinate logistics or travel activity for the production, liaising with other departments when required.
- Collaborate with the production team to check that the final product is delivered to industry standards including technical and legal requirements.
- Monitor the production schedule to ensure that changing priorities or deadlines are communicated to the team.
- Prioritise the work to ensure that tasks are completed on schedule.
- Resolve, and where required escalate, faults, incidents or problems, within agreed policies and procedures.
- Contribute to the monitoring and compliance for the production relating to legal, regulatory, organisational and industry codes of practice.
- Build relationships with partners on productions such as cast, crew, and contributors.
- Liaise with other departments, acting as a point of contact on the production.
- Keep up to date with tools, standards, trends and emerging technologies and their use and impact across the sector.
- Operate within legislation, regulations, organisational policies, industry standards and procedures such as health and safety, confidentiality, security.
- Follow sustainable practices in line with industry standard recommendations.
- Promote and market skills and services.
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; presentations and group work. Throughout your apprenticeship, you will be asked to gather a portfolio of evidence and work on an end point assessment that demonstrates your learning, while working towards a Level 4 apprenticeship qualification.
This apprenticeship will give you a thorough knowledge and understanding of what it is like to work in production management and the media industry, which you can then utilise during your time at the BBC and afterwards in the wider industry.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE 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
- Administrative skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Patience
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.
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:
BAUER RADIO LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000006087.
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Closes in 23 days (Sunday 11 January 2026)
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