Data analytics & reporting apprentice

Closing date for applications: 10th March 2025

Salary: £24,328

Length of apprenticeship: 16 – 21 months

Number of roles available: 2

Reports to: Reporting Manager

Department: Strategy & Consumer Insight

Location: Leeds

Start date: September 2025

Are you creative and data-driven? Discover the world of analytics & reporting in this Leeds-based apprenticeship!

If you are looking for an opportunity to gain work experience and a qualification, then an apprenticeship at Channel 4 might be for you.

Our Apprenticeships are full-time, with four days per week spent working in a C4 department and one day per week completing the formal learning parts of the apprenticeship. You’ll spend 60% of your working week in your office base and 40% working from home.

The formal training provided will consist of workshops, tutorials, webinars, coaching and in some cases residential boot camps. You can read more about the qualification being offered for this apprenticeship below.

If you’d like some tips on writing your application before you apply, please watch our YouTube video, How to Write an Outstanding Application.

AM I ELIGIBLE TO APPLY?

• You must be 18 years old or over at the time the scheme starts to apply. There is no upper age limit.
• You’ll need to have a Grade C (4) or above in Maths & English GCSE
• You can’t have already completed the qualification being offered or similar at the same or higher level
• Our apprenticeships are aimed at school leavers and people who do not have a degree. If you have a degree, please visit the Channel 4 Jobs website 

DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION

The Strategy, Policy & Insight team provides expert advice bringing expert strategy, policy, market & audience insight – challenging and advising the business to drive delivery of Channel 4’s strategy and remit. The new Audience Insights team is focused on using data to support Channel 4’s creative and business decisions. They provide a clear and unified view, challenging and advising the business to ensure profitable business growth through the use of data.

In the new centralised Insights model at Channel 4, each senior leader (like the CEO and other C-Suite members) has a dedicated Insight Business Partner (BP). The BP works with them to prioritize their insights based on Channel 4's strategy. The BP Analysts provide available analysis, and if more specialized research is needed, the BP will arrange this with the relevant expert. The BP also helps present the findings and recommendations to the senior leadership team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Assist the Insight function with reporting and analysis of the performance of C4’s linear, streaming, short-form and social media content and transforming it into meaningful insight.
• Help colleagues to use data to drive the strategy of Channel 4, based on analysis, experimentation, and competitive intelligence.
• To help integrate the performance of our data across streaming, social and linear and bring together meaningful stories from these datasets.
• Work with your line manager to set benchmarks and targets for digital strategies, building automated ways to measure them, and reporting them back to key stakeholders.
• Support the team to conducting competitor analysis on other content types, brands, channels using the insights to guide digital content strategies.
• Highlighting content trends in ongoing output, and proactively anticipating industry trends.
• Supporting product and social decisions and assist in defining and challenging new tactics and strategies via creative thinking.
• Learn to develop dashboards using data visualisation tools such as Tableau and PowerBI, and programming languages such as SQL, Python and R. 

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE & SKILLS

As part of the application process you’ll be asked to tell us how you meet the essential criteria listed below. When answering this question think about examples from your experience so far, this doesn’t need to be professional experience but could be academic, from volunteering or a part-time job.

We’ve provided some examples beside the first four criteria of experience that could demonstrate you have these skills. Please note you do not need to use these examples, they are just here for guidance and you should draw from your own personal experiences. 

• Verbal and written communication skills
  • Verbal – e.g. experience of dealing with customers or working as part of a team.
  • Communication – e.g. writing emails, completing an application form or essay, or if you have a hobby that involves creative writing. 
• Attention to detail
  • e.g. Cashing up on tills or proofreading coursework.
• Organisation skills and ability to prioritise tasks
  • e.g. Planning events whether personal or for professional purposes, as well as managing work life balance, for example working whilst doing coursework/exams. 
• An understanding of and a passion for Channel 4's remit 
• Confirm you have Maths & English GCSE Grade C (4) or above
• Comfortable working with statistics, mathematics, and algebra.
• Ability to undertake research and develop a simple narrative from this.
• An understanding of the user experience of social media platforms.
• A basic understanding of excel. 

QUALIFICATION OFFERED WITH THIS APPRENTICESHIP

Level 4 Data Analytics

LENGTH OF APPRENTICESHIP

16-21 months

ALTERNATIVE APPLICATION FORMATS

We are committed to making the application process accessible. If you would like to discuss suggestions for alternative formats, or have any questions about the recruitment process in general, please contact us at apprenticeships@channel4.co.uk

Take a look at our access page for more information, which you’ll find by clicking here. You can also watch our YouTube video, Demystifying Interview and Workplace adjustments.

RELOCATION

If you need to relocate in order to take up this opportunity, we can offer you support towards the financial costs of moving. This includes a contribution towards your deposit and first months’ rent, plus visits to your new city to look for accommodation.

We encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and do not discriminate based on disability, age, gender reassignment, gender expression, criminal history, length of time spent unemployed, marriage or civil partnership status, national origin, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.