Think Apprenticeships… Think Southwark Council…
Applications are now open for our spring recruitment campaign for 2023.
Join hundreds of successful apprentices at Southwark Council and develop a great career.
Why choose a Southwark apprenticeship?
- Competitive salary – London Living Wage
- On-the-job training
- Professional qualifications
- Personal coaching
- Fantastic experience with one of London’s largest and most ambitious local authorities
What are the requirements?
- Must be aged 16 or over
- Able to work full time
- Willing to learn
- Willing to work towards English and Maths qualifications whilst on the apprenticeship*
- GCSE requirements or equivalent qualification level*
*GCSE qualification requirements will vary depending upon apprenticeship level
*English and Maths qualifications are a mandatory element of an apprenticeship if not held as a GCSE upon enrolment.
About Southwark:
Southwark is a large, ambitious and progressive council with a ‘can do’ attitude and enviable reputation. As a Council, we are successful, passionate and forward-thinking. We are committed to our ‘Fairer Futures for All’ promise which ensures that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do. If you want to make a difference at a local level, apply to Southwark Council today.
The Role:
The Programmes and Change team is a central team of project managers providing project management expertise across the Environment, Neighbourhoods and Growth department. They work on the department’s key priority programmes, such as the departmental change programme and the department’s response to Southwark Stands Together, ensuring they deliver positive outcomes for residents and staff in a timely manner, to budget and to a high standard. The team strives to become a centre of excellence for delivering programmes and projects and setting the standard in how programmes and projects will be managed across the department and beyond.
The Programmes and Change team is a newly established team following a restructure that has centralised existing project capacity into one unit. Therefore there have been no previous apprentice opportunities but the team are excited about the prospect of welcoming someone to the team and department.
For the successful candidate, gaining experience working in a Programme Management Office has many benefits: project variety, meeting and working with new people at different levels, always a new technique, tool, model and/or methodology to learn and use, job satisfaction, project lifecycle exposure, and strong strategic alignment (we know where we fit in).
Many of the skills required to be a successful project professional are transferrable, not just to other sectors, but to peoples’ personal lives too. These skills include: stakeholder engagement and management, collaboration and teamwork, communication, conflict resolution, project management, time management, organisational management, problem solving, critical thinking, procurement, and negotiation.
The apprenticeship pathway you will be completing will be Associate Project Manager Level 4
Recruitment timetable
We will be hosting an Apprenticeship open day event Friday 26th May 2023 Between 10AM - 2PM at 160 Tooley Street, London, SE1 2QH - Please feel free to attend
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spring-apprenticeship-campaign-open-day-tickets-633427939017
Closing Date: Friday 2nd June 2023
ASSESSMENT CENTRE 27th and 28th June 2023
- Must be available to attend attend the assessment dates
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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