Business Administration Apprenticeship

Job Details

Location: Hove. This is an office based role

Contract: Apprenticeship for 18 months, with the potential to be permanent

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, 9-5 Monday to Friday

Salary: £18,000 – £20,000 per annum plus a fully paid Level 3 Business Administration Apprenticeship worth £5000!

Closing date: 29 January 2023

The Role

You will be a point of contact for colleagues, suppliers and vendors, and work with our teams to facilitate company events, offer admin support, plan social events, co-ordinate international conferences and provide general support looking after the office environment.

A typical day would include;

• Acting as a first point of contact handling enquiries and providing support to our team of over 100 people and external stakeholders, through the management of email mailboxes, over telephone and via mail.
• Maintaining the office environment and facilities in our Hove office, including administration of supplier contracts, managing canteen and stationery stock supplies and supporting internal hybrid meetings using our new conferencing facilities.
• Assisting the Operations team in ensuring continued compliance with Health & Safety requirements, audits, GDPR compliance and supporting our carbon net zero ambitions.
• Supporting the delivery of the Business Operations business plan for 2023 including facilitating international conferences, internal communications and significant changes to the office environment.
• Opportunities to engage with our internal initiatives including our Green Team, Inclusion Team and Social Committee.

This role will provide future opportunities to work in one of our Business Services Teams such as: Operations, Finance, HR, Business Development, Marketing and Communications.

The Apprenticeship

This role provides many opportunities to develop a variety of skills across the business combined with structured 18 month Level 3 Business Administration Apprenticeship supported by SR Apprenticeships, with 6 hours of active study per week (within your working hours).

You will learn the following skills during your apprenticeship:

• Business fundamentals
• Project Management
• Regulation, legislation and external factors
• About our organisation

Our Benefits

At Itad, we know how much our teams mean to us, and we offer the following benefits:

• A matched company pension up to 5%.
• 26 days holiday per year, plus a further 3 flexible days and public holidays which you can take whenever you want to.
• You will have access to our online training, as well as induction programmes and the opportunity to attend company training.
• Packages to support wellbeing and work life balance
• And lots more!

What next

We are looking for someone who has:

• A keen interest to develop their knowledge and experience in business administration
• Organisation skills
• A self-starter
• An eagerness to learn
• Attention to detail

We know that there are great candidates who will not fit everything described, or who have important skills we have not mentioned. If that is you, please do not hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself.

About Itad

Itad is a leading international development consultancy providing advice to governments, foundations, multilateral agencies and non-profits on how to maximise the impact of their investments.

We have an excellent track record of providing our clients with the information and insight they need to make development work smarter, produce better results and improve people’s lives.

Our knowledge and expertise are grouped around Practice areas including Fragile and Conflict-affected Settings (FCAS), Human Development (HD), Inclusive Growth and Climate Change (IG&CC), and Governance and Institutional Strengthening (GIS).

At Itad, we are committed to actively promoting diversity, equality and inclusion to empower people both within our organisation and through our work. We know that employees with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences make us a more effective and innovative company and we therefore welcome and encourage applications from interested candidates regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or belief.

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Itad are unable to sponsor applicants for work visas in this role.