Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Apprentice (Level 4)

Summary

As a Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Apprentice, you will help drive innovation and ambitions for social and environmental change. Alongside your full-time work, you will complete a day release to Gateshead College where you will gain your Level 4 apprenticeship qualification over a 2-year period.

Wage

£14,526.20 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course

Corporate responsibility and sustainability practitioner (level 4)

Hours

Monday to Friday between 9am to 5pm.

37 hours a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

Duration

2 years

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you’ll do at work

Interacting with internal and external collaborators to embed social and environmental change across the organisation, and develop long-lasting relationships with clients, suppliers and communities, to build a positive legacy to be proud of.
Facilitating change by helping others to understand how different roles fit within the CR&S strategy and how everyone’s contribution can impact the greater good.
Develop and implement social value plans that make a positive social impact. Coordinate activities with onsite and offsite project teams for volunteering, charitable donations and STEM activities which support the communities in which we work.
Support business sustainability programmes including carbon reduction and human rights.
Role model ethical behaviour and values, promoting the development of CR&S.

Where you’ll work

C A Parsons Works
Shields Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE6 2YL

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

GATESHEAD COLLEGE

Your training course

Corporate responsibility and sustainability practitioner (level 4)

Equal to higher national certificate (HNC)

Course contents

Select and implement project management and planning tools applicable to the type of project/ campaign lifecycle.
Assess the effectiveness of change and identify opportunities to improve outcomes, guiding and supporting others to deliver results.
Balance own CR&S workload to prioritise competing demands and achieve key performance indicators.
Utilise strengths of internal organisational structures to help build self-sustaining CR&S populations.
Tailor approach to maintaining new/existing external stakeholder relationships to achieve progress on plans (e.g objectives, key initiatives and shared interests).
Contribute to the negotiation of external CR&S projects of mutual benefit.
Adopt a communication method that takes account of the audience and is suitable for the circumstances.
Recommend opportunities for external engagement, articulating the mutual benefits and risks.
Contribute to written reports on CR&S performance in line with organisational requirements.
Contribute to the drafting of the CR&S strategy.
Adjust leadership style to achieve results, having regard to the needs of the individual/teams involved.
Select data that is relevant to the CR&S issue being considered.
Analyse data to form evidence-based conclusions on CR&S performance.
Deliver CR&S events in accordance with contractual arrangements.
Quality assure own and others work in accordance with organisational requirements
Contribute to reporting externally on CR&S Strategy and delivery in line with industry and legislative requirements.
Identify own organisations CR&S opportunities and threats. Escalate risks within own organisation when needed.
Research the CR&S landscape, escalating best practice opportunities within own organisation.
Apply management techniques needed to deliver CR&S projects within budget.
Train colleagues in CR&S techniques, tailoring the learning style to the circumstances.
Identify and deliver initiatives that may raise funds for CR&S projects.
Identify and apply relevant IT solutions to CR&S issues.
Select and implement project management and planning tools applicable to the type of project/ campaign lifecycle.
Assess the effectiveness of change and identify opportunities to improve outcomes, guiding and supporting others to deliver results.
Balance own CR&S workload to prioritise competing demands and achieve key performance indicators.
Utilise strengths of internal organisational structures to help build self-sustaining CR&S populations.
Tailor approach to maintaining new/existing external stakeholder relationships to achieve progress on plans (e.g objectives, key initiatives and shared interests).
Contribute to the negotiation of external CR&S projects of mutual benefit.
Adopt a communication method that takes account of the audience and is suitable for the circumstances.
Recommend opportunities for external engagement, articulating the mutual benefits and risks.
Contribute to written reports on CR&S performance in line with organisational requirements.
Contribute to the drafting of the CR&S strategy.
Adjust leadership style to achieve results, having regard to the needs of the individual/teams involved.
Select data that is relevant to the CR&S issue being considered.
Analyse data to form evidence-based conclusions on CR&S performance.
Deliver CR&S events in accordance with contractual arrangements.
Quality assure own and others work in accordance with organisational requirements
Contribute to reporting externally on CR&S Strategy and delivery in line with industry and legislative requirements.
Identify own organisations CR&S opportunities and threats. Escalate risks within own organisation when needed.
Research the CR&S landscape, escalating best practice opportunities within own organisation.
Apply management techniques needed to deliver CR&S projects within budget.
Train colleagues in CR&S techniques, tailoring the learning style to the circumstances.
Identify and deliver initiatives that may raise funds for CR&S projects.
Identify and apply relevant IT solutions to CR&S issues.

Your training plan

Alongside your full-time work, you will complete day release to Gateshead College, where you will gain your Level 4 apprenticeship qualification over a 2-year period.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths, English, additional STEM subject (grade 4 (C) or above)

A Level in:

minimum 3 subjects (grade C or above)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Problem solving skills
Presentation skills
Administrative skills
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience
Adaptability

About this company

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With 100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation. Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

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Company benefits

You will develop skills through a combination of classroom work and on-the-job activities. We offer 25 days holiday, pension and healthcare schemes. Continuous learning and development opportunities. Exciting and encouraging environment.

After this apprenticeship

This exciting opportunity represents a new growth period for Siemens Energy Newcastle and offers excellent opportunities to join our fantastic Apprenticeship programme. As a Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Apprentice, you will help drive innovation and ambitions for social and environmental change.

Within this particular role, you will join our Social Value team within Grid Technologies, Grid Solutions, where you will support the delivery of organisational CR&S strategies and become a social conscience for our business.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

GATESHEAD COLLEGE

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000314471.

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Closes in 4 days (Tuesday 22 April 2025)

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Company’s application instructions

Submit your application. If you pass the essential criteria, you will be invited to online assessments. After this, the successful candidates will be invited to an assessment centre day in Newcastle which will be the last stage of the process.

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