Opportunity information
Salary £23000 per year
Duration 16 months
Advert closing date 04/09/2026
Description
We are looking for a creative and ambitious Digital Content & Design Apprentice to join Livewire Telecom and work directly alongside their Lead Designer.
This is a hands-on creative role covering graphic design, video, social media, e-commerce and digital content.
You will be supported and trained by their Lead Designer while completing a Level 3 Content Creator apprenticeship.
As your skills develop, we want you to progress from supporting the creative team to taking responsibility for your own designs, videos and campaigns.
What You’ll Work On
Your day-to-day work will include:
- Creating graphics for TikTok Shop and TikTok campaigns
- Designing promotional graphics for eFones and eHomes
- Creating and editing short-form TikTok videos
- Producing Instagram Reels and social video content
- Editing longer-form YouTube content
- Creating YouTube thumbnails
- Designing website banners and promotional assets
- Producing and improving product images
- Creating graphics and assets for livestreams
- Designing content for major sales events and brand campaigns
- Creating social media posts
- Supporting product photography and video shoots
- Editing photography and video
- Creating storyboards and concepts before shoots
- Developing motion graphics and basic animation
- Adapting brand assets for different platforms
- Working with our creators and livestream team to capture content
- Organising and maintaining our library of creative assets
Social Commerce
A major part of the role will be creating content for social commerce.
You’ll learn how creative content isn’t just about making something look good — it also needs to attract attention, communicate a product quickly and ultimately help generate sales.
You’ll work on TikTok Shop campaigns and livestreams and will be able to see how the content you create performs with real audiences.
This will include learning how different:
- Hooks
- Thumbnails
- Product images
- Offers
- Video styles
- Graphics
- Calls to action
Working With Major Brands
Livewire works with major consumer technology brands and operates some of the UK’s leading technology livestream and social-commerce channels.
You’ll have the opportunity to work on real brand campaigns, product launches, promotional events and high-volume TikTok Shop campaigns.
This gives you the opportunity to build a professional portfolio while completing your apprenticeship.
Working Alongside Our Lead Designer
You will work closely with our Lead Designer, learning how professional creative work moves from an initial brief through to finished content.
This will include:
- Understanding a creative brief
- Developing concepts
- Researching ideas and trends
- Creating mood boards and storyboards
- Producing initial designs
- Receiving feedback
- Making revisions
- Preparing final assets
- Delivering content for different platforms
- Reviewing how the content performed
Initially, you’ll support the Lead Designer on projects. As your skills and confidence grow, you’ll increasingly take ownership of your own work.
Skills You’ll Develop
During the apprenticeship you’ll develop practical experience in:
- Graphic Design - Photoshop, Illustrator, Canva and other creative tools.
- Video Production - Filming, editing, lighting, sound and producing content for different platforms.
- Video Editing - Premiere Pro, CapCut, After Effects or similar professional creative software.
- Social Media - Creating content specifically for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and other social platforms.
- E-commerce - Creating product imagery, banners, promotional graphics and content designed to help customers make purchasing decisions.
- Branding - Working within brand guidelines while developing creative ideas appropriate for different brands.
- AI & Creative Technology - Using modern AI and creative tools to improve workflows, generate ideas and increase the speed of content production.
- Content Performance - Understanding how views, engagement, clicks and sales can be used to judge whether creative content has been successful.
Entry requirements
We’re not expecting you to arrive as a fully trained designer.
We’re looking for someone who has creative ability and genuinely wants to develop it.
You should:
- Have a strong interest in graphic design and video
- Enjoy TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and digital content
- Have a good visual eye
- Be interested in photography and video
- Understand what makes social content interesting
- Be willing to learn new software
- Be comfortable receiving constructive feedback
- Have good attention to detail
- Be organised and able to work to deadlines
- Be willing to try new ideas
- Be interested in how AI is changing design and content creation
Previous experience using Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Canva or CapCut would be an advantage but isn’t essential.
A portfolio isn’t required to contain professional client work. Personal designs, photography, TikTok videos, YouTube videos, college work or other creative projects are all welcome.
A drivers license for this role is essential.
Training to be provided
Alongside your role at Livewire, you will complete the Level 3 Content Creator apprenticeship.
The programme complements the work you’ll be doing within Livewire and covers areas including:
- Creative industry knowledge
- Understanding creative briefs
- Audience and market segmentation
- Branding
- Content marketing
- Production workflows
- Media production
- Social media
- Copywriting
- Web, SEO and user experience
- Data and analytics
The objective is to combine formal learning with practical experience gained working alongside our creative and commercial teams.
Pragramme Duration: 13 month practical and 12 week End Point Assessment.
Things to consider
On completion of the programme, you will be awarded a Level 3 Institute for Apprenticeships Content Creator apprenticeship certificate.
Skills required
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Future prospects
We’re looking at this as the beginning of someone’s career rather than simply filling a temporary apprenticeship position.
By the end of the apprenticeship, our aim is for you to be capable of independently creating professional digital content across graphics, video, social media and e-commerce.
For the right person, there will be an opportunity to develop into a permanent role within our creative team.
Hours per week 37.5
Working week Monday-Friday
Apprenticeship standard Content creator (Level 3)
Towcester, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom, NN12 8FU
