Learn what it means to be an Edit Assistant, gain invaluable technical knowledge, and build strong relationships with clients and peers in a supportive environment. Work closely with our Editing, Grading, and Audio departments to expand your post‑production skills.
Responsibilities
- Provide support across all aspects of post‑production within your scope of responsibility
- Develop a thorough knowledge of interdepartmental workflows and end‑to‑end process to support the editing department
- Manage incoming media for Entertainment & Sport shows
- Log and report support and workflow issues
- Ingest footage captured on location and export viewing links of footage
- Prepare edited sequences for audio turnovers
- Participate and contribute to general technical discussions
- Advise clients when logistical and technical issues arise, working in line with agreed workflows and adapting to operational changes
- Multitask on simultaneous projects, often for different clients, prioritising the work to ensure all tasks are completed on schedule
- Analyse and interpret the work order and technical specification to complete scheduled tasks
- Use process documentation and work order reporting systems for efficient, accurate, and timely communication with other departments about progress
- Work accurately with a high degree of attention to detail
- Analyse and advise on the quality of audio, video, and data throughout the post‑production process to colleagues, customers, and suppliers
- Follow post‑production processes to ensure the necessary quality is achieved
- Access and interpret technical specifications and client requirements, applying them to the post‑production process
- Use appropriate technical vocabulary to document and communicate compliance with, or exceptions from, technical standards
- Assimilate information from multiple sources and apply it to the task at hand
- Ensure data is transferred securely between client supplied sources and post‑production storage systems, performing data integrity and virus checks
- Ingest and export media content and metadata to/from post‑production systems, syncing audio to video and applying colour transforms (LUTs) as required
- Arrange media content in agreed folder structures, using consistent and unambiguous folder and file naming conventions
- Prepare graphics and still images for ingest using software such as Photoshop for basic manipulation
- Encode and transcode audio and video data to required specifications
- Export finished content or work‑in‑progress with metadata from post‑production systems to required specifications and naming conventions
- Provide technical advice to clients and colleagues on an appropriate file specification for a given requirement
- Dispatch and receive physical assets to/from external organisations and audit the process
- Use file transfer software for fast, secure, and audited delivery of assets to external destinations
- Communicate work progress to colleagues and clients as appropriate
- Manage access by clients to shared storage systems according to company protocols
- Ensure data integrity when moving media between storage systems
- Backup, archive and restore media, sequences, and metadata according to company practice
- Safely delete media as instructed and complying with company protocols
- Maintain content security measures, both electronic and physical as required by the employer and their clients
- Enact business continuity procedures
- Provide frontline operational support to clients in editing suites to ensure they can find and work with their media
- Take ownership to resolve and/or escalate faults/incidents to the appropriate person within agreed governance constraints
- Connect and set‑up post‑production editing equipment using appropriate cables and connectors
- Perform and check that data conforms of sequences prior to colour grading or online editing
- Transfer picture data between grading and editing systems, ensuring data integrity of content and sequences is maintained
- Relink ingested media to updated sequences as editorial changes occur
- Prepare and transfer audio data to the dubbing suite
- Perform basic editing functions necessary for the preparation of media and sequences for creative processes, or for formatting of finished content for delivery (e.g. adding line‑up signals, idents, patching in QC fixes, audio lay‑backs)
- Analyse and interpret results of reports from audio and video test equipment
- Consistently assess and identify faults in content, using correct terminology to accurately describe and record them
- Use own judgement and discretion to decide what is acceptable and what is not in relation to quality control, depending on context, intended use, and required specifications and customer requirements
- Deliver accurate and concise Quality Assessment Reports with clear indications of mandatory failures, advisory warnings and client‑approved exceptions
- Provide technical advice on remedial action to correct faults identified
- Communicate findings to both clients and colleagues accurately and diplomatically
- Comply with company Health and Safety policies and practices, identifying, mitigating and reporting any incidents or risks to the appropriate person
- Consistently work in a safe manner for self, colleagues and clients
- Use appropriate legacy media physical handling procedures
- Carry out basic operation of videotape recorders and audio recorders
- Digitise tape content into editing systems
- Playout finished content from editing systems to tape
- Provide technical advice to clients and colleagues on the implications of using legacy format in contemporary workflows
Qualifications
GCSE in: Five GCSEs including English and Maths (grade A‑C)
- Communication skills
- Organisation skills
- Aware of editing tools
- Curiosity about video content
- An openness to learning
- Strong work ethic
- Effective time management
- Calm in high‑pressure situations
Training Schedule
This Level 4 apprenticeship gives you the chance to develop technical skills in post‑production while working with Sky\'s expert teams. You’ll spend 80 % of your time learning on the job and 20 % receiving structured training from London South Bank University (LSBU), supported by ScreenSkills. You’ll learn how to manage media files, support creative teams, deliver content securely, and check the quality of finished work. The programme is approved by Skills England. As an apprentice, you will be involved with 80 % on‑the‑job training with Sky Post Production plus 20 % off‑the‑job learning from the registered and approved training provider. Apprentices undergo an external independent assessment at the end to demonstrate whether they have achieved full operational competence and receive an officially recognised qualification.
Apprenticeship Requirements
You’ll be above the statutory school‑leaver age by September 2026. You won’t have completed a qualification or degree in the subject you are applying to. You will have completed any current education by September 2026 and will not plan to be undertaking any education throughout the duration of the apprenticeship. You will have resided in the UK or Republic of Ireland for three years by September 2026. If you are on a time‑limited visa, your visa will not expire at any point during the apprenticeship programme.
Benefits
Our fantastic range of benefits includes free Sky Q (for the TV you love all‑in‑one place), a generous pension, 25 days paid annual leave, discounted mobile and broadband, and private health care.
