Responsible Business Apprentice
FORSTERS LLP
London (W1U 3BW)
Closes in 16 days (Friday 13 November 2026)
Posted on 28 October 2026
Contents
Summary
The LDN Sustainability Professional programme equips professionals with the skills, knowledge and behaviours to lead impactful sustainability initiatives and drive change within their organisations.Designed by award-winning consultancy MH&A, the apprenticeship equips learners with the skills to drive sustainability change.
- Wage
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£28,200 a year
- Training course
- Corporate responsibility and sustainability practitioner (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 18 January 2027
- Duration
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1 year 5 months
- 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
Responsibilities
Administration Support
- Practical administrative and planning support for responsible business initiatives, meetings and events. This could include sending diary invites, booking rooms, coordinating sign-ups, sharing information with attendees and participants, communicating with external organisations to make arrangements and taking notes at meetings.
- Supporting ad hoc responsible business requests and acting as the first point of contact for enquiries through the RB team inbox.
- Supporting data collection and data management (e.g. data about engagement in our programmes).
- Collating budget and expenditure information and processing invoices for payment.
- Coordinating responsible business inductions for new joiners, trainees and apprentices.
Communications
Drafting internal and external responsible business communications, which could include: awareness raising and event-related information about our RB areas; social media posts and articles; intranet and website content; or RB reports.
Community Impact
- Supporting the delivery of our volunteering programme, which could include researching relevant volunteering opportunities, acting as the main point of contact with charities, coordinating diary invites, drafting internal and external communications and tracking participation.
- Supporting our firm charity partnership, which could include coordinating fundraising activities, volunteering opportunities, donations and office collections, as well as drafting communications.
- Supporting our pro bono programme (where our lawyers provide legal advice for free to those who need it), which could include drafting communications or liaising with our partner organisations.
Diversity and Inclusion
- Supporting our seven D&I employee support networks (Faith, Gender Equality, Pride (LGBTQ+), EnABLE (disability), Race, Social Mobility, and Working Parents and Carers), including helping to coordinate meetings, initiatives and events.
- Supporting the delivery of the firm’s social mobility work experience programmes, including liaising with charity partners, schools and students, recruiting internal volunteers to deliver sessions, coordinating logistics such as room bookings and catering and preparing presentation materials.
- Providing administrative support for our wider diversity and inclusion projects, for example tracking engagement with training and sending reminders.
Continuous Improvement and Team Support
- Supporting other responsible business areas (including environmental sustainability), where we are launching new initiatives or projects. This could include doing research, contacting external organisations, writing up information and proposals and setting up the practicalities for new projects.
- Supporting data collection to show the impact of our programmes.
- Support with award, accreditation and index submissions by compiling information.
- Identifying opportunities to improve administrative processes and ways of working.
- Keeping up to date with industry trends and responsible business best practice.
Where you'll work
22 Baker Street
London
W1U 3BW
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)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
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
The LDN Sustainability Professional programme equips professionals with the skills, knowledge and behaviours to lead impactful sustainability initiatives and drive change within their organisations.
Designed by industry experts and award-winning consultancy MH&A, the apprenticeship features a state-of-the-art curriculum designed to support apprentices in becoming sustainability change makers.
Developed in collaboration with the The Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals (ISEP) – formerly known as IEMA, the programme embeds key technical knowledge and explores how organisations can mitigate risk and capture sustainability-related opportunities, such as those linked to climate change.
Throughout your apprenticeship, you'll be invited to monthly 3-hour live sessions hosted online in addition to working on your course content via our online learning platform.
To meet the off-the-job requirements for your apprenticeship, you'll also spend a minimum of 6 hours a week within the workplace developing your CR&S knowledge, skills, and behaviours listed within your bespoke LDN Training Plan.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4-9 or A*-C)
- Maths (grade 9 - 4 or A* - C)
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
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Team working
- Creative
Other requirements
- Experience with Microsoft Word and Excel
- A minimum of 5 GCSEs, including maths
About this employer
Forsters is a Mayfair-based law firm which delivers exceptional legal results to its clients who are principally from the real estate and private wealth sectors. They believe their engaged and friendly manner, combined with the delivery of concise, clear and commercially led advice, helps to build long-lasting relationships with their clients.
Forsters, located in one of the most beautiful and thriving parts of London, was founded as a genuine alternative to the City practices that dominate the legal profession. They are proud of their distinctive culture and strong values with a long history of undertaking CSR work and continue to expand their commitments in all CSR areas.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Full-time employment could be offered to the right candidate.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LDN APPRENTICESHIPS LTD
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000061411.
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Closes in 16 days (Friday 13 November 2026)
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