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    Bring your passion and knowledge of environmental management or sustainability and join the world's largest public service broadcaster to apply a ‘systems thinking’ approach to how we will achieve our 2030 net zero targets. You shall develop your skills in solving some of our sustainability challenges delivering ideas and solutions under complexity, risk and uncertainty at the BBC while studying for your L7 Systems Thinking Postgraduate Degree with the University of Exeter. Get hands-on experience at the heart of a global media organisation.

    Job Introduction

    During your apprenticeship

    • A starting salary of £29,250 (+ £4,729 London Living Allowance), and potential pay increases
    • A flexible 35-hour working week, 26 days of annual leave days (with the option to buy an extra 5 days), and a defined pension scheme. Plus discounted dental, health care, gym and much more
    • A dedicated Team Manager and Scheme Specialist to help with your development
    • Professional coaching and mentoring by industry professionals
    • Access to our in-house Academy, which hosts a range of internal and external courses.

    At the end of your apprenticeship

    • A recognised apprenticeship qualification from The University of Exeter and an apprenticeship qualification awarded by The Institute of Apprenticeships & Technical Education  
    • A role at the BBC with a starting salary of £36,000 or more
    • The chance to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the BBC.

    If you’d like support with your application because you have a learning difficulty or disability, please select the Extend Hub in the application.

    Main Responsibilities

    Work at the heart of the BBC Group, providing vital sustainability advice and support and using your growing knowledge to help the organisation to collaboratively complex and urgent challenges.

    Hone your skills by working on high-impact transformational projects and learning how to make meaningful, informed decisions.

    Get coaching and mentoring from experts in their fields, solving problems collaboratively and focusing on the small details and the big picture.

    Use systems thinking to help the BBC’s identify risks, dependencies, and systems to achieve our 2030 goals. working with our Sustainability team to drive our climate change and de-carbonisation programme through developing appropriate tools and processes

    Study for your L7 Systems Thinking Postgraduate Degree, awarded by The University of Exeter. The apprenticeship qualification will be certified by the Institute of Apprenticeships and Technical Education.

    Take a look at the candidate pack and job description for more details about the role.

    Are you the right candidate?

    To be eligible for an apprenticeship, you must:

    • Be aged 18 or over when the course starts in September 2022
    • A 2:1 degree in Environmental Sciences or Environmental Management and Sustainability. Or a L4 Apprenticeship qualification in corporate responsibility and sustainability with 3 years of on-the-job experience.
    • Three A-Levels (CCC) in Maths, English, and a relevant subject.
    • Have Maths and English GCSEs or Standard Grades (Scotland) at 9-4 (A-C) or equivalent
    • Be legally allowed to work in the UK
    • Have lived in the UK, Ireland or the European Economic Area (EEA), for at least three years before the start of the apprenticeship. Or have either pre-settled or settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme and lived in the UK, EEA or Gibraltar for at least three years.

    We’ll ask you to give examples to show you’re:

    • Interested in the environment and sustainability on a local, national and global scale as it applies to an organisations such as ours.  
    • A natural problem solver
    • Practical and able to multi-task
    • Good at communicating with technical and non-technical people
    • Comfortable managing your own time
    • Happy to collaborate and adapt to changing situations.

    Don’t worry if you don’t have an extensive CV. You can share examples of your passion for analytics from anywhere. That might be other work experience, your time in education, volunteering – even times you’ve helped your friends and family out with technical issues.

    About the BBC

    We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below.

    Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

    We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

    We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.