Apprentice Waste Prevention Officer

Buckinghamshire County Council

Aylesbury (HP20 1UD)

Closes in 23 days (Sunday 30 November 2025)

Posted on 6 November 2025

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Summary

We’re looking for a passionate and energetic person to join our Waste Prevention Team in Neighbourhood Services. You’ll combine work-based training along achieving an Advanced (Level 3) qualification in Multi-Channel Marketing that will help you towards a career in the field of marketing, the environment or waste management and strategy.

Wage

£14,566 a year

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Your initial apprentice salary will be £14,566 p.a. which will increase in the 2nd year of your apprenticeship to £19,292 if you are aged 19-20, or £23,556 if you are aged 21 or above.

Training course
Multi-channel marketer (level 3)
Hours
Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm

37 hours a week

Start date

Monday 5 January 2026

Duration

1 year 6 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

  • A typical day might involve monitoring social media channels, responding to messages from the public, writing articles or content for the website and social media and collating data & recording it accurately.
  • The role will help support the wider team whilst giving you exposure to how the waste service operates and will include the opportunity to see first-hand how waste is managed and processed in Buckinghamshire. 
  • Your work will focus on supporting projects that encourage residents to reduce, reuse and recycle more. It includes creating content to share with local residents about waste and recycling, this could be on our website or via social channels or include input into printed media such as magazine articles and leaflets. Other responsibilities will include attending public events, responding to resident queries, engaging with community groups, schools and external stakeholders and supporting the contracts team to deliver excellent services.
  • All this will develop in you an understanding of marketing techniques and communication tools and how these can be applied to waste management in a local government setting, and the role of communications in promoting good waste behaviours. This work can then be applied to real life campaigns and promotions and assist with delivering a key Council service.  Alongside your day-to-day role you will also study to achieve the Level 3 Multi-Channel Marketer apprenticeship throughout the duration of your time with us. For this we’ll assign you time during your working week for study and assessments - which means no evening or weekend study is required.

Where you'll work

County Hall
Walton Street
Aylesbury
HP20 1UD

Training

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

Training provider

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE COUNCIL

Training course

Multi-channel marketer (level 3)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Develop or interpret briefs for external or internal stakeholders and measure delivery in-line with the specification and agreed timelines
  • Plan and coordinate a marketing activity using marketing tactics to acquire and retain one or more customer segments using available resources.
  • Contribute to the generation of innovative and creative approaches across video, images, and other formats, both online and offline, to support campaign development.
  • Use research/survey software to gather audience insight and/or evaluation to support the project.
  • Use copywriting techniques to write persuasive text/copy to meet a communications objective ensuring it is in-line with organisational brand guidelines.
  • Build and implement multi-channel campaigns across a variety of platforms, either offline or digital media.
  • Proofread marketing copy ensuring it is accurate, persuasive and is on brand.
  • Use software to design and create marketing assets to meet the technical specification.
  • Contribute to the research of external suppliers to support recommendations and procurement of marketing goods and services.
  • Organise offline and digital assets ensuring they are co-ordinated and legally compliant.
  • Use a website content management system to publish text, images, and video/animated content.
  • Create and maintain spreadsheets to support marketing activities such as project/budget planning and organisation of marketing assets.
  • Use technology and software packages to support day to day activities, e.g., stakeholder communications, development of briefs, data analysis, report writing, presentations and project management.
  • Identify and use data and technologies to achieve marketing objectives.
  • Monitor and amend campaigns to meet budget requirements including time and monetary costs.
  • Review campaigns regularly to ensure effectiveness, to optimise the results.
  • Measure and evaluate campaign delivery to identify areas for improvement.
  • Use data analysis tools to record, interpret and analyse customer or campaign data.
  • Develop or interpret briefs for external or internal stakeholders and measure delivery in-line with the specification and agreed timelines
  • Plan and coordinate a marketing activity using marketing tactics to acquire and retain one or more customer segments using available resources.
  • Contribute to the generation of innovative and creative approaches across video, images, and other formats, both online and offline, to support campaign development.
  • Use research/survey software to gather audience insight and/or evaluation to support the project.
  • Use copywriting techniques to write persuasive text/copy to meet a communications objective ensuring it is in-line with organisational brand guidelines.
  • Build and implement multi-channel campaigns across a variety of platforms, either offline or digital media.
  • Proofread marketing copy ensuring it is accurate, persuasive and is on brand.
  • Use software to design and create marketing assets to meet the technical specification.
  • Contribute to the research of external suppliers to support recommendations and procurement of marketing goods and services.
  • Organise offline and digital assets ensuring they are co-ordinated and legally compliant.
  • Use a website content management system to publish text, images, and video/animated content.
  • Create and maintain spreadsheets to support marketing activities such as project/budget planning and organisation of marketing assets.
  • Use technology and software packages to support day to day activities, e.g., stakeholder communications, development of briefs, data analysis, report writing, presentations and project management.
  • Identify and use data and technologies to achieve marketing objectives.
  • Monitor and amend campaigns to meet budget requirements including time and monetary costs.
  • Review campaigns regularly to ensure effectiveness, to optimise the results.
  • Measure and evaluate campaign delivery to identify areas for improvement.
  • Use data analysis tools to record, interpret and analyse customer or campaign data.

Training schedule

You will gain experience in a large organisation, whilst studying towards your nationally recognised qualification - Multi-channel Marketer level 3 qualification - with 20% time out of the workplace for study, training and assessments. 

Your training will be a via a blended learning approach, with face-to-face visits in your workplace, on-line group workshops on a monthly basis, and hands on training within the workplace providing you with all you require to be successful. You will be given one day a week to complete your training. 

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade A*-G/9-1 or equivalent)
  • Maths (grade A*-G / 9-1 or equivalent)

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

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Analytical skills

Other requirements

This post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare: All unspent cautions and/or unspent convictions For further information on how long it takes for cautions and convictions cautions to become spent, please refer to our guide on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (updated 2023).

About this employer

The role sits within the Strategic Waste Management and Enforcement service. The team work collaboratively to provide core Council services that cover waste treatment, recycling, reuse and recovery operations provided through a number of multi-million-pound waste contracts. Contracts the team manage include the Energy from Waste (EFW) contract, the Household Recycling Centre (HRC) contract and Green, Food, Bulky and Wood (GFBW) contract. Collectively the team are involved in a wide range of work from enforcement to contract management, procurements, communications, internal business/systems improvements, infrastructure projects, behaviour change projects and customer service. The wider team also covers the management of fly tipping, unlawful encampments, and traveller community enforcement. Working across the team means there are plenty of opportunities for learning and development in both a formal and informal capacity. The team environment is fast paced, dynamic and supportive, we invest in ‘growing our own’ so there are excellent opportunities for career progression. The Team are friendly, approachable, and always up for the next challenge!

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Company benefits

Paid holiday package. Generous Pension scheme. 50% off Arriva bus travel. A range of restaurant, shop & gym discounts through our Employee Benefits scheme. Apply for a TOTEM Card (formerly called the NUS Extra card).

After this apprenticeship

We cannot guarantee a permanent position following completion of the apprenticeship; however, this is a great opportunity to develop transferrable business service skills. 
 

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE COUNCIL

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000349862.

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Closes in 23 days (Sunday 30 November 2025)

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