Apprentice Sustainable Travel Coordinator - Birmingham, United Kingdom - University of Birmingham

University of Birmingham

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Position Details
Campus Services

Location:
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

The full time starting salary is £18,698. per annum

From 1 November 2023 the salary will increase to £20,693. per annum, with progression after 12 months in post to £25,866. per annum

Apprentice Band 400

Full Time, Fixed term contract for 36 months

Apprenticeship standard:
Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Practitioner Level 4

Apprenticeship training provider:
Cambridge Marketing College

Closing date: 30th August 2023

Our offer to you
People are at the heart of what we are and do.

The University of Birmingham is proud to have been a part of the City of Birmingham and the wider region for over 100 years, and we are equally proud to be recognised as a leading global university.

We want to attract talented people from across the city and beyond, support them to succeed, and celebrate their success.

We are committed to helping the people who work here to develop through our sector-leading Birmingham Professional programme which provides all professional services staff with development opportunities and the encouragement to reach their full potential.

With almost 5,000 professional services jobs in a wide-range of functions in Edgbaston and in our campus in Dubai, there are plenty of opportunities for you to be able to develop your career at the University.

We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of staff and that diversity is a source of strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation, and debate.

We warmly welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is at the heart of who and what we are, and how we work.

Supporting our people to achieve a healthy work/life balance is important both to our employees and to the success of the University and, depending on the role, we offer a variety of flexible working arrangements.

We therefore welcome discussions on all forms of flexible working.

In addition, you will receive a generous package of benefits including 40 days paid holiday a year, one paid day a year for volunteering, occupational sick pay, and a pension scheme.

We also have three high quality subsidised day nurseries.

The University is situated in leafy Edgbaston and there are excellent transport links to our beautiful campus, including main bus routes and a train station on site.

On campus we have a state-of-the-art sports centre with pool, shops, places to eat and drink, our own art gallery, museum and botanical gardens.

Find out more about the benefits of working for the University of Birmingham

Apprenticeship context

As an apprentice sustainable travel coordinator, you will be working with University of Birmingham's sustainable travel officer to enable and encourage our community to make sustainable commuting and business travel choices.

Sustainable Travel is a department of Facility Services and you will work with colleagues in this division as well as with teams across the university.

The commuting work consists of a wide range of projects and programmes that make up the sustainable travel plan, from hiring out bicycles to supporting colleagues signing up to a discounted bus pass, and from informing our new students about travel around Birmingham to auditing campus facilities for active travellers.

The business travel work involves monitoring booking data and working with partners to set and achieve targets to reduce emissions.

It is an exciting time to join the University, which has made the bold commitment to become net-zero carbon by 2045.

Commuting and business travel are currently two major contributors to our carbon emissions, and you will be part of changing that for the better.

Apprenticeship summary
From day one of your apprenticeship, you will learn to deliver the sustainable travel plan.

You will learn to become a reliable administrator and an expert in commuting to campus and travelling for university business.

You will use and develop your interpersonal skills to collaborate with colleagues across the university and to welcome, inform and engage our staff students at events, convene evening classes and manage the hiring out our fleet of bikes.

As you grow in the role, you will take on responsibility for project tasks, you will support the Sustainable Travel Officer to deliver travel projects and eventually deliver travel activities with their support.

You will contribute to the university-wide sustainability strategy and activity.

Your apprenticeship learning will help you understand the environmental, institutional, technical and regulatory underpinning of your work and develop the skills you use on the job.

To ensure your development you may be assigned to sustainability projects in Facility Services or across the wider University.

Together, your day-to-day work, special projects you assist with and coursework will be the platform on which you build your