Social Value Management Trainee - Apprentice L4

Established in 1897, and celebrating our 125th anniversary in 2022, the Wates Group is one of the leading privately-owned construction, residential development and property services businesses in the UK. We employ over 3,800 people and work with a wide range of public and private sector customers and partners. We're committed to the long-term sustainability of the built environment, and aim to eliminate carbon from our operations by 2025. We're honoured to have recently received a Queen's Award for Enterprise in the Sustainable Development category, which is a record third win for the company. We're also committed to increasing the proportion of women at all levels of our business, and broadening the ethnic diversity of our workforce.

Group Services form the foundation of our business and carry out essential functions to keep us operating at an efficient, safe and profitable level. The core functions are IT, Finance, HR, Legal, SHEQ and Communications.

Full UK Driving Licence may be required, depending on location.

When you join the Student Planner programme you'll be vital member of the SHEQ team, which supports our Social Value, Health and Wellbeing agendas. You'll play an active role in group wide campaigns and pre-employment programmes as you carry out reporting and social value enterprise, and assist with pre-employment programme administration, performance monitoring and reporting. Supporting the Social Enterprise agenda, including the management of spend reports, case studies data and gap analysis, you'll also help to deliver Social Value activities in line with project KPIs, work that will include taking responsibility for elements of careers fairs and work experience.

But your work won't stop there - you'll build and maintain strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders such as customers and community organisations to support the delivery of initiatives, and work on the production of regular customer performance updates, milestone project impact reports and other reports. We'll also expect you to maintain information documents, good practise guidance and bid resources, and coordinate SharePoint resources, website content and social media output.

To be a success on the programme you'll enjoy learning new things, have a curious nature, be a superb communicator and you won't be afraid to ask questions. Organised, reliable and professional, and a problem solver with the ability to think logically, you'll have the initiative to start and complete tasks. It's important that you possess good time management skills, and are able to prioritise your work to meet agreed deadlines. For our Higher Apprenticeship you'll also need 2 A-Levels or their equivalent at minimum grades DD, and a minimum of 5 GCSE's Grade 4/C and above, including Maths and English.

Please be aware that you should be willing to commute for up to an hour a day around the location you apply for. This location can change if you're assigned to a new site, and as Wates don't support relocation, you should be comfortable that you can meet this requirement.

Our Early Careers programmes offer rotational development, technical and behavioural training, and a host of additional benefits. We provide the foundation skills, knowledge and experience you'll need to build a long-term, successful career as you're mentored by some of the best professionals in the industry. We have over 150 talented trainees on our programmes, providing amazing opportunities to build a network, collaborate and share learning with your peers.

In addition to learning from the best, you'll enjoy a competitive industry salary and benefits package, be supported all the way through to Chartership, and as we'll rotate you around our business unit, you'll get a full breadth of experience. You'll also receive structured development, a combination of technical and behavioural training, professional mentorship and guidance, and great exposure to our senior leaders. In addition to all this, you'll also complete a level 4 higher apprenticeship in Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability Practitioner.

Please note the closing date for applications is 12 noon on 19th December 2022