Virgin Atlantic Apprentice - Sustainability Analyst 2025
VIRGIN ATLANTIC AIRWAYS LIMITED
West Sussex (RH10 9DF)
Closes in 20 days (Sunday 20 July 2025)
Posted on 30 June 2025
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Summary
We believe the best jobs make you fly—so what better way to launch your career than with a 24-month Virgin Atlantic Apprenticeship in Analytics, Data and AI? You’ll gain hands-on experience, industry-recognised qualifications, and make a real impact from day one.
- Wage
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£26,255 a year
- Training course
- Corporate responsibility and sustainability practitioner (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.30pm, but a degree of flexibility will be required.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 13 October 2025
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Deliver and enhance regular sustainability performance reporting, from carbon emissions performance to waste
- Maintain and improve our sustainability data systems, models, and carbon tracking tools, deploying Excel and Power BI
- Provide analytical support on carbon emissions forecasting and KPI development
- Collaborate with teams across Virgin Atlantic to gather data and evaluate sustainability performance and outlook
- Support the delivery of sustainability inputs and data to key commercial initiatives
- Analyse aviation industry data such as Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) trends and voluntary carbon markets, and provide insight updates to internal stakeholders
- Contribute to the development of strategic plans and environmental compliance reporting
- Take ownership of small projects and support wider team initiatives with research, insight, and recommendations
Where you'll work
Company Secretariat - The VHQ
Fleming Way
Crawley
West Sussex
RH10 9DF
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
LDN APPRENTICESHIPS LTD
Your training course
Corporate responsibility and sustainability practitioner (level 4)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Select and implement project management and planning tools applicable to the type of project/ campaign lifecycle.
- Assess the effectiveness of change and identify opportunities to improve outcomes, guiding and supporting others to deliver results.
- Balance own CR&S workload to prioritise competing demands and achieve key performance indicators.
- Utilise strengths of internal organisational structures to help build self-sustaining CR&S populations.
- Tailor approach to maintaining new/existing external stakeholder relationships to achieve progress on plans (e.g objectives, key initiatives and shared interests).
- Contribute to the negotiation of external CR&S projects of mutual benefit.
- Adopt a communication method that takes account of the audience and is suitable for the circumstances.
- Recommend opportunities for external engagement, articulating the mutual benefits and risks.
- Contribute to written reports on CR&S performance in line with organisational requirements.
- Contribute to the drafting of the CR&S strategy.
- Adjust leadership style to achieve results, having regard to the needs of the individual/teams involved.
- Select data that is relevant to the CR&S issue being considered.
- Analyse data to form evidence-based conclusions on CR&S performance.
- Deliver CR&S events in accordance with contractual arrangements.
- Quality assure own and others work in accordance with organisational requirements
- Contribute to reporting externally on CR&S Strategy and delivery in line with industry and legislative requirements.
- Identify own organisations CR&S opportunities and threats. Escalate risks within own organisation when needed.
- Research the CR&S landscape, escalating best practice opportunities within own organisation.
- Apply management techniques needed to deliver CR&S projects within budget.
- Train colleagues in CR&S techniques, tailoring the learning style to the circumstances.
- Identify and deliver initiatives that may raise funds for CR&S projects.
- Identify and apply relevant IT solutions to CR&S issues.
- Select and implement project management and planning tools applicable to the type of project/ campaign lifecycle.
- Assess the effectiveness of change and identify opportunities to improve outcomes, guiding and supporting others to deliver results.
- Balance own CR&S workload to prioritise competing demands and achieve key performance indicators.
- Utilise strengths of internal organisational structures to help build self-sustaining CR&S populations.
- Tailor approach to maintaining new/existing external stakeholder relationships to achieve progress on plans (e.g objectives, key initiatives and shared interests).
- Contribute to the negotiation of external CR&S projects of mutual benefit.
- Adopt a communication method that takes account of the audience and is suitable for the circumstances.
- Recommend opportunities for external engagement, articulating the mutual benefits and risks.
- Contribute to written reports on CR&S performance in line with organisational requirements.
- Contribute to the drafting of the CR&S strategy.
- Adjust leadership style to achieve results, having regard to the needs of the individual/teams involved.
- Select data that is relevant to the CR&S issue being considered.
- Analyse data to form evidence-based conclusions on CR&S performance.
- Deliver CR&S events in accordance with contractual arrangements.
- Quality assure own and others work in accordance with organisational requirements
- Contribute to reporting externally on CR&S Strategy and delivery in line with industry and legislative requirements.
- Identify own organisations CR&S opportunities and threats. Escalate risks within own organisation when needed.
- Research the CR&S landscape, escalating best practice opportunities within own organisation.
- Apply management techniques needed to deliver CR&S projects within budget.
- Train colleagues in CR&S techniques, tailoring the learning style to the circumstances.
- Identify and deliver initiatives that may raise funds for CR&S projects.
- Identify and apply relevant IT solutions to CR&S issues.
Your training plan
- The course runs for 24 months at our Crawley, West Sussex, VHQ
- After that, it’ll be time to put all your training into practice. The sky really is the limit
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade C/4 or above)
- Maths (grade C/4 or above)
- Science (grade C/4 or above)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
You’ll need to be naturally curious and comfortable working with data—our sustainability performance depends on accurate insights, and the detail you uncover will help shape how we meet our environmental commitments.
About this company
Virgin Atlantic took off in 1984 when Richard Branson set out to shake up the aviation industry—and we’ve been doing things differently ever since. What began with a single 747, one route, and a small but mighty team has grown into an international airline with a global network and thousands of passionate people behind it. But our story has never just been about planes—it’s about people. From the very beginning, we’ve believed that travel should feel exciting, personal, and filled with possibility. That belief still drives us today as we work towards our mission: to become the most loved travel company. Whether we’re designing innovative customer experiences, pushing boundaries in sustainability, or building inclusive teams that reflect the world we serve, we’re united by a shared spirit of adventure, heart, and humanity. Because at Virgin Atlantic, we don’t just fly people from A to B—we help them take off in every sense. We’re not just your average airline. When it comes to our people, they’re a passionate lot, united in creating something different. It’s always been like this. It’s in our DNA, and it was ignited within us from the moment we started flying.
After this apprenticeship
By the end of the programme, you’ll have developed a solid foundation in sustainability data, carbon reporting, and performance analysis—alongside hands-on experience with tools like Excel and Power BI. You’ll be well positioned to progress into a junior sustainability analyst or data insight role, either within Virgin Atlantic or the wider sustainability and environmental sector. With your experience in live reporting, cross-functional projects, and aviation sustainability strategy, you’ll be ready to contribute meaningfully to data-driven change and environmental performance.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LDN APPRENTICESHIPS LTD
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000327722.
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Closes in 20 days (Sunday 20 July 2025)
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