Business Administrator Apprentice

Are you ready to kick-start your career in a fast-paced, purpose-driven environment? 

What You’ll Be Doing:

Providing high-quality administrative and operational support to the two Directorates. Plan, organise, and coordinate day-to-day team activities and administrative processes, ensuring effective collaboration, timely execution of tasks, and alignment with team and organisational priorities. Such as:

Book train travel and accommodation. Book meeting rooms, and refreshments (teas coffees and lunches). Support with administration tasks across the team, for example, producing badges, printing, formatting documents. Logging contract information on the company CRM salesforce and making sure details are up to date. Run reports from Salesforce to support engagement and communications with stakeholders. Raise purchase orders, chase invoices and keep a record of all transactions to support financial management across the teams. Managing documentation, tracking progress, support communication Support grant and contracts drafting and sign off process. Project co-ordination, supporting the team with project deliverables. Providing essential administrative support across two busy teams Managing priorities and juggling tasks with confidence and clarity Building strong relationships through excellent communication Supporting projects and initiatives that make a real difference

What You’ll Gain:

A broad skillset across business operations, communications, and digital tools Exposure to strategic workstreams and external-facing activities Development in problem-solving, time management, and stakeholder engagement A supportive environment where your initiative and ideas are valued

What We’re Looking For:

A positive, can-do attitude and a willingness to learn Strong organisational skills and attention to detail Confident digital skills, especially in Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Curiosity to explore new systems like Salesforce A team player who’s also comfortable working independently

Training Outcome:

We actively promote internal opportunities to help employees grow and advance their careers.

Progression pathways are supported through regularly advertised internal roles.

Training & Development is monitored and discussed through 1-2-1’s / supervision and performance management processes.

Employer Description:
We are the national What Works Centre for youth employment, with a specific focus on marginalised young people. We find and generate high-quality evidence to better understand England’s’ youth unemployment and inactivity challenge, and most importantly to learn what solutions work to address this. We do this through bringing together the best evidence already in existence and build on this by conducting original research and testing and evaluating promising interventions to produce much needed new evidence where there are gaps. We put evidence into action with policy makers, employers and funders who have the means to make direct impactful change for young people. We do this through translating the evidence practically for stakeholders to use and understand, and through partnerships and engagement to influence, inform and support them as decision makers to back evidence-based interventions that work.

Working Hours :
Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 5:30pm (One hour unpaid lunch break).

Skills:
Communication skills,IT skills,Attention to detail,Organisation skills,Customer care skills,Problem solving skills,Presentation skills,Administrative skills,Number skills,Analytical skills,Logical,Team working,Initiative,Patience