Policy Apprentice

You’ll start in our Delivery and Strategy Hub, where you’ll develop core skills and learn how we plan and organise all of our work. As your apprenticeship develops, you’ll build on this experience by also working with the Broadcast Licensing, Content Policy Development, and Content Standards and Enforcement areas of the Group, where you’ll get to experience the different ways we regulate content.

For example, you could be helping to write a report about the performance of public service broadcasters like the BBC and Channel 4, working on initiatives to make the broadcasting industry more representative and inclusive, or considering if our rules need to be updated to protect audiences from harmful content.

Your Key Responsibilities:

As a Policy Officer Apprentice, you’ll contribute to a range of projects and other types of work that shape broadcasting and media regulation. You’ll be supported by experienced colleagues and will take on greater responsibility as your apprenticeship develops.

Working with Delivery and Strategy, you will:

• Support projects and priority work across BMG, helping teams plan, organise and deliver their work
• Help keep work moving by monitoring shared mailboxes and work queues, responding to straightforward queries and directing other queries to the right colleagues
• Organise meetings, take clear notes, keep plans and records up to date, and work with colleagues across BMG to help coordinate their work

Working with Broadcast Licensing, you will:

• Help process applications for TV and radio licences, checking that the necessary information has been provided and keeping applicants informed
• Support the team in gathering and reviewing information used to decide whether to issue a licence and whether a broadcaster is fit and proper to hold one
• Keep licensing records and published information accurate and up to date, and help to respond to queries from applicants and licensees

Working with Content Standards and Enforcement, you will:

• Help support the assessment of complaints about TV, radio and on-demand content, including requesting recordings, so we can quickly identify the issues that we may need to consider
• Support the investigation process by gathering and organising relevant information and other material from broadcasters
• Help prepare correspondence and other documents, keep case records up to date and support meetings with broadcasters
• Working with Content Policy Development, you will:
• Help develop broadcasting and media policy by identifying key questions, researching and reviewing information, and contributing to practical solutions
• Consider evidence and help colleagues understand what it means for
• Ofcom’s policy decisions, contributing to clear and accurate documents for different audiences
• Support meetings and engagement with broadcasters, media companies, public bodies and other organisations, listening to different perspectives and sharing your ideas

• We support apprentices to continue their careers at Ofcom, subject to role availability and good performance

• 5 x GCSEs including English Language and maths (or level 2 equivalent) at grade 4 and above (or the old grade C and above)

Level 3 qualification(s), including at least one of:

• 2 x A-levels at grade D and above; or
• BTEC Extended Diploma at grade PPP and above; or

Level 3 apprenticeship; or

• Equivalent level 3 qualifications of at least 48 UCAS points.

Benefits are an important part of what makes up reward packages at Ofcom and includes: £1,000 Flex Allowance, private medical insurance, 8% employer pension contributions, 26 days annual leave and annual health screening. We also offer a discretionary annual bonus, based on organisation-wide performance.

As the UK’s communications regulator, we’re delivering vital work that helps keep the UK connected and shapes the future of how we’ll stay connected with each other. Our work covers everything from phones and broadband, through to TV, radio, the postal service, and wireless devices. We’re also taking on the challenge of making the online world a safer place. And we need people of all backgrounds, skill sets, and experiences to help us achieve our goal of making communications work for everyone.