Sustainability Apprentice

APS Group Ltd

Stockport (SK3 0ZP)

Closes in 21 days (Saturday 31 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 6 May 2025

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Summary

A fantastic opportunity to work across the business, collaborate with multiple stakeholders, and gain exposure to key sustainability principles, customer expectations, and best practices in responsible business operations. This is a key role in supporting our sustainability initiatives across the business.

Wage

£15,704 to £25,396.80, depending on your age

National Minimum Wage

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Competitive rate.

Training course
Corporate responsibility and sustainability practitioner (level 4)
Hours
40hours, 08.30 - 17.00, Monday - Friday. 3 days in office (Tuesday - Thursday), 2 days remote.

40 hours a week

Start date

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Duration

3 years 3 months

Positions available

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

  • Assist in gathering and organising sustainability-related information from various areas of the business, including environmental initiatives, supply chain activities, and operational improvements
  • Support the preparation of sustainability content, customer-specific research, and company-wide sustainability communications
  • Contribute to the creation of content such as internal presentations, reports, and digital materials to support APS employees in understanding sustainability goals and initiatives
  • Develop clear, engaging sustainability content for external clients, helping to communicate APS’s commitment to environmental and social responsibility
  • Collaborate with different departments to ensure sustainability information is presented accurately and effectively
  • Support the continuous improvement of sustainability processes, ensuring clarity, consistency, and accessibility in reporting and communications
  • Assist in identifying and analysing sustainability trends, initiatives, and best practices relevant to APS and its stakeholders
  • Help track the progress of sustainability initiatives, ensuring engagement and traction across the business
  • Support the communication of sustainability successes internally and externally, including collecting and compiling relevant case studies and impact stories
  • Provide general administrative support to the sustainability department, helping to coordinate projects and maintain accurate records

Where you'll work

Bird Hall Lane
Stockport
SK3 0ZP

Training

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

College or training organisation

MBKB 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

A 100% tailored training and assessment program will be delivered to support you throughout your apprenticeship, (24 - 36 months including endpoint assessment) topics covered include:

  • The 6 core pathways of CRS
  • Core knowledge and background
  • Environmental
  • Human Rights and Social Value
  • Leadership
  • Quality Assurance
  • Events Management

Includes membership to the ICRS.

You may need to complete level 2 Maths and English Functional skills (if you cannot evidence prior grades).

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths and English (grade 4/C 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
  • Customer care skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Logical
  • Initiative
  • Patience

About this company

Joining a small team in a large orgnisation means the candidate will need to be proactive, great at connecting with others and comfortable working with others in different departments. We see these as positives and opportunities for personal development, and we're looking for candidates who feel the same.

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After this apprenticeship

Full time role.

As a growth area within APS, progression opportunities will arise into general or specific sustainability roles within APS e.g. carbon reporting, social value, compliance.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

MBKB LTD

Nicki Bevan

recruit@mbkbgroup.com

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000317753.

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Closes in 21 days (Saturday 31 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

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