Social Value Executive Project Management Apprentice (36407)
GO NORTH WEST LIMITED
Birkenhead (CH41 8ES)
Closes in 22 days (Friday 5 June 2026)
Posted on 12 May 2026
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Summary
You will play a key role in developing partnerships, coordinating initiatives, and embedding social value into day-to-day operations while completing a fully funded Level 4 Project Management qualification.
- Wage
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£20,982 a year
- Training course
- Associate project manager (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, hours to be confirmed.
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 15 June 2026
- Duration
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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
A normal day would include:
- As a Social Value Executive, you will support the delivery, monitoring, and reporting of social value commitments at our new Wirral depot, helping to create meaningful and measurable benefits for local communities
- Support the planning and delivery of social value initiatives across the Wirral area, ensuring activities align with agreed objectives and timelines
- Coordinate social value projects, events, and community engagement activity to maximise positive local impact
- Track, measure, and report social value outputs and outcomes against agreed targets, ensuring accurate and timely reporting
- Maintain clear and compliant records and evidence for tenders, client reporting, and internal performance monitoring
- Work in partnership with Human Resources to support recruitment opportunities for individuals from targeted groups
- Build and maintain effective partnerships with third sector organisations, community groups, educational providers, and industry bodies
- Work collaboratively with internal departments to ensure social value initiatives complement operational requirements and business priorities
- Promote awareness of social value across the Wirral depot, helping to embed a positive and inclusive culture
- Identify new opportunities to strengthen community impact and continuously improve delivery
- Recruit, support, and engage with up to three Social Value Champions who contribute to delivery alongside their core roles
- Undertake and successfully complete a Level 4 Project Management qualification within the agreed timescale
- Undertake any other duties commensurate with the role as directed by the Social Value Manager
How you will be supported:
Full training and support will be provided by The Growth Company to help you achieve your apprenticeship and reach your full potential in your role.
What will happen next:
New applicants to The Growth Company who meet any basic entry requirements of the role will be contacted within two working days to be invited to meet a member of our team. You will then have the opportunity to find out:
- More about this vacancy and any others you are suitable for
- Any training you need to complete
- What the next steps will be
How you could get there:
If you would be catching public transport for this role, visit the Journey Planner on www.tfgm.com to see how you would get there and how long it would take.
Where you'll work
Laird Street
Birkenhead
CH41 8ES
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
THE GROWTH COMPANY LIMITED
Training course
Associate project manager (level 4)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Use project monitoring and reporting techniques to track, interpret and report on performance.
- Manage and engage with stakeholders.
- Influence and negotiate with others to create a positive outcome for the project.
- Resolve conflict as and when required with stakeholders within limits of responsibility.
- Adapt communications to different stakeholders.
- Communicate and support the project vision, to ensure buy in to the project objectives.
- Collate and analyse information and provide input to support negotiations relating to project objectives.
- Monitor and analyse project budgets.
- Review and provide feedback on a project business case to ensure the project remains valid.
- Apply change control processes to support the management of project scope.
- Evaluate an integrated project management plan to provide recommendations on areas for improvement.
- Prepare, monitor, and schedule activities that contribute to the delivery of the overall project schedule and objectives.
- Evaluate and make recommendations on the risk management plan to threats to delivery and recommend solutions.
- Identify and monitor project risks and issues; and plan and implement responses to them.
- Deliver a Quality Management Plan which contributes to quality control processes.
- Use an organisation’s continual improvement process including lessons learned to improve performance.
- Support the preparation or maintenance of a resource management plan for project activities.
- Work with stakeholders to deliver the project.
- Use digital tools and software to meet project objectives for example research, collaboration, presentations, and resolution of problems.
- Provide underpinning data to support the written submission through the governance process.
- Work within the approved project budget.
- Ensure that integrated schedules support critical path analysis, interface management, resource forecasting and risk management.
- Apply relevant legislation, regulations, codes of practice, and ethical guidance where appropriate to their work.
- Use data to inform decisions on actions to take to mitigate risks on project.
- Use configuration management and change control to schedule and maintain projects.
- Manages resources through the project lifecycle.
- Use project monitoring and reporting techniques to track, interpret and report on performance.
- Manage and engage with stakeholders.
- Influence and negotiate with others to create a positive outcome for the project.
- Resolve conflict as and when required with stakeholders within limits of responsibility.
- Adapt communications to different stakeholders.
- Communicate and support the project vision, to ensure buy in to the project objectives.
- Collate and analyse information and provide input to support negotiations relating to project objectives.
- Monitor and analyse project budgets.
- Review and provide feedback on a project business case to ensure the project remains valid.
- Apply change control processes to support the management of project scope.
- Evaluate an integrated project management plan to provide recommendations on areas for improvement.
- Prepare, monitor, and schedule activities that contribute to the delivery of the overall project schedule and objectives.
- Evaluate and make recommendations on the risk management plan to threats to delivery and recommend solutions.
- Identify and monitor project risks and issues; and plan and implement responses to them.
- Deliver a Quality Management Plan which contributes to quality control processes.
- Use an organisation’s continual improvement process including lessons learned to improve performance.
- Support the preparation or maintenance of a resource management plan for project activities.
- Work with stakeholders to deliver the project.
- Use digital tools and software to meet project objectives for example research, collaboration, presentations, and resolution of problems.
- Provide underpinning data to support the written submission through the governance process.
- Work within the approved project budget.
- Ensure that integrated schedules support critical path analysis, interface management, resource forecasting and risk management.
- Apply relevant legislation, regulations, codes of practice, and ethical guidance where appropriate to their work.
- Use data to inform decisions on actions to take to mitigate risks on project.
- Use configuration management and change control to schedule and maintain projects.
- Manages resources through the project lifecycle.
Training schedule
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade A*-C/9-4)
- Maths (grade A*-C/9-4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Able to coordinate events
- Self motivated
- Adaptable
- Proactive
- Willing to learn
- Time management skills
About this employer
Go North West was created on 2nd June 2019, when The Go-Ahead Group took over operations at the historic Queens Road bus depot in the heart of Manchester. Since then, we’ve worked hard to embed ourselves firmly within the communities we serve.
In Bolton and Wigan, we operate the first two large depots to become part of the Greater Manchester Bee Network. We also provide school transport and local services for Transport for Greater Manchester in the Bury, Manchester, Stockport and Tameside areas.
We’re now getting Metro Ready in the Liverpool City Region, where we’ll soon be operating one of the very first franchises. From the end of October we’ll be playing our part in keeping people moving across the Wirral and beyond. We’re excited to be welcoming new colleagues into the Go North West family too, we can’t wait to get started.
Go North West is part of the Go-Ahead Group, one of five major groups involved in running buses in the UK. The Go-Ahead philosophy is for each subsidiary company to run as an autonomous business, in tune with the local market.
After this apprenticeship
Possible progression within the company and progression onto the next level apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE GROWTH COMPANY LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000031064.
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Closes in 22 days (Friday 5 June 2026)
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