Sustainability Apprenticeship

LONDON LUTON AIRPORT OPERATIONS LIMITED

LUTON (LU2 9NU)

Closes in 13 days (Wednesday 20 August 2025)

Posted on 6 August 2025

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Summary

Join London Luton Airport as a Sustainability Apprentice and earn a Level 4 qualification while supporting ESG projects, data reporting, events, and community engagement. Open to LU1–LU4 residents, this 20-month role blends on-the-job experience with study, helping shape a more sustainable and inclusive airport.

Wage

£24,242 a year

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Training course
Corporate responsibility and sustainability practitioner (level 4)
Hours
Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.30pm

37 hours a week

Start date

Wednesday 1 October 2025

Duration

1 year 8 months

Positions available

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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

  • Supporting campaigns and initiatives that support our ESG strategy
  • Building relationships with colleagues to integrate sustainability best practices and ethical policies into daily airport operations
  • Engaging with community organisations and charity partners (TOKKO and Bedfordshire NHS) to help drive our social and environmental impact
  • Contributing to communications that promote our sustainability efforts and share best practice across the airport
  • Collecting and inputting sustainability data to support mandatory governance reporting
  • Helping to organise events that engage both internal employees and external stakeholders around ESG themes
  • Monitoring our projects and campaigns to ensure they meet sustainability and regulatory standards in line with our Responsible Business Strategy and wider business commitments
  • Identifying social and environmental risks and helping to recommend actions to protect our corporate reputation
  • Representing the airport at ESG events and conferences to keep us informed about developments in the field
  • Tracking spend on sustainability activities and highlighting any budget risks to leaders
  • Supporting the training of colleagues on the practical application of sustainability in their roles
  • Assisting with submissions to third-party accreditation schemes and sustainability benchmarks aligned with ESG standards
  • Contributing sustainability news and updates to our internal newsletters and social media channels
  • Supporting fundraising activities that engage LLA employees and charity partners

Where you'll work

PERCIVAL HOUSE
134 PERCIVAL WAY
LONDON LUTON AIRPORT
LUTON
LU2 9NU

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

LDN APPRENTICESHIPS LTD

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.

Training schedule

Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Practitioner Level 4 (Higher national certificate) Apprenticeship Standard

 

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade C/4 or above)
  • Maths (grade C/4 or above)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • Organisation skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Team working
  • Initiative
  • Curious
  • Microsoft Office
  • Passion for Sustainability

Other requirements

All apprenticeships are subject to passing enhanced background checks in aviation, including Disclosure and Barring Service check.

About this employer

London Luton Airport (LLA) is one of the UK’s busiest airports, carrying over 16.7 million passengers in 2024. The airport is operated by a consortium, of which the majority shareholder is AENA, the world’s largest airport operator, and InfraBridge, a leading infrastructure investment manager. Airlines include Jet2, easyJet, Wizz Air, Ryanair, Tui, FlyOne, Sun Express and El Al. The airport is owned for community benefit by Luton Rising, a company wholly-owned by Luton Council, which has invested more than £500m in front-line, voluntary and charitable services since 1998. LLA continues to be major employer and a key economic driver in Bedfordshire — supporting 28,000 jobs and contributing £830 million per year to the local economy. To learn about the progress London Luton Airport is making across its sustainability programme please click here. Further information on London Luton Airport can be found here: https://www.london-luton.co.uk/

After this apprenticeship

  • This could be a good pathway to entry level roles within the sustainability department or across other departments within the business

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

LDN APPRENTICESHIPS LTD

early.careers@ltn.aero

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000335850.

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Closes in 13 days (Wednesday 20 August 2025)

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