Sustainability Level 6 Apprenticeship

Summary

The climate and ecological crisis is the defining challenge for humanity. London is part of the global effort to address it, and the mayor has an ambition to make London net zero-carbon by 2030. TfL must keep London moving to make the city as safe, sustainable, and inclusive as possible in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Wage: £29,281 a year
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Training course: Environmental practitioner (Degree) (level 6)
Hours: Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 5.00pm.
35 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 8 September
Duration: 5 years
Positions available: 5

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

You will complete a two-week induction, and three weeks work experience as a Customer Service Assistant at a station. This will give you invaluable front-line experience and understanding of the customer facing element of working for a transport organisation.

Your apprenticeship programme will then incorporate two different placements each year. Placements will be chosen with you to give you breadth of experience and to align with your interests and ambitions. The placements will allow you to gain the skills, experience and behaviours required to complete the Apprenticeship and for your future career.

Our current Sustainability Apprentices have completed placements in:

Sustainability & Corporate Environment – Sustainability (example activities: developing and delivering knowledge programmes)
Sustainability & Corporate Environment – Carbon & Energy (example activities: developing and implementing detailed plans to tackle our energy consumption, increase renewable energy and reduce carbon emissions)
Bus Operations (example activities: helping drive the wider green agenda for bus operations, looking at opportunities beyond the flagship project of zero emission buses)
Piccadilly Line Upgrade project (example activities: chairing the ‘Green Meeting’ attended by the Piccadilly Line Upgrade leadership team, reporting against environmental metrics, championing climate adaptation, biodiversity and carbon)
Environment & Sustainability Engineering (example activities: carbon modelling and management, working to make sustainability ‘business as usual’ in TfL Engineering)
Transport Strategy & Planning (example activities: involvement in development and implementation of London-wide environmental transport policy)
Places for London (example activities: working with property managers to help improve the environmental and social aspects of the London property market).

Where you’ll work

197 Blackfriars Road

London

SE1 8JZ

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

KINGSTON UNIVERSITY

Your training course

Environmental practitioner (Degree) (level 6)

Equal to degree

Course contents

Apply complex environmental principles and methods to projects that integrate with the built or natural environment.
Design, develop or manage safe and sustainable environmental solutions, be able to identify challenges these solutions pose, and assess the opportunities to deliver practical solutions that integrate with the built or natural environment.
Balance views of potentially conflicting drivers related to environmental, social and financial constraints, and demonstrate critical analysis in the design, development or management of environmental projects.
Apply and comply with policies and regulations, including those relating to the environment, health and safety, legal, planning and equality and diversity, and with their organisation’s formal procedures and practices.
Determine and manage the collection, analysis, and evaluation of data used in the development or delivery of environmental solutions drawing appropriate conclusions and making practical recommendations.
Apply, analyse and evaluate a broad range of environmental methods (utilising appropriate software and digital solutions), to inform and enable decision making within the development or delivery of environmental solutions. This includes assessing data suitability, validity, quality, and accuracy relative to its intended application.
Effectively and safely manage tasks or projects, within environmental, legal, contractual and statutory requirements, to agreed time and resource budgets, and to agreed quality standards, through the application of appropriate project management tools and techniques.
Deliver high quality accurate, well-structured documents and recommendations for the work for which they are responsible and are appropriate to those for whom they are intended.
Develop and maintain productive working relationships with stakeholders and colleagues and support and guide team members to enable them to achieve the team’s objectives as well as their own. Actively seek and provide feedback, support decision making processes, and manage any conflicts that may arise in their work with integrity, fairness and consistency in decision making.
Communicate effectively orally and in writing in both formal and informal contexts, and with a variety of stakeholders. Listen actively to ensure the views of others are considered appropriately.
Manage their own work independently within the limits of their ability, authority and responsibility, making use of support and specialist expertise when appropriate. Seek feedback on their performance, looking for ways to improve it.
Develop their own professional competence, regularly updating and reviewing their CPD records and develop an extended network to support their professional development and maintain the required standard of, ethical behaviours and codes of conduct, associated with the environmental profession.
Apply complex environmental principles and methods to projects that integrate with the built or natural environment.
Design, develop or manage safe and sustainable environmental solutions, be able to identify challenges these solutions pose, and assess the opportunities to deliver practical solutions that integrate with the built or natural environment.
Balance views of potentially conflicting drivers related to environmental, social and financial constraints, and demonstrate critical analysis in the design, development or management of environmental projects.
Apply and comply with policies and regulations, including those relating to the environment, health and safety, legal, planning and equality and diversity, and with their organisation’s formal procedures and practices.
Determine and manage the collection, analysis, and evaluation of data used in the development or delivery of environmental solutions drawing appropriate conclusions and making practical recommendations.
Apply, analyse and evaluate a broad range of environmental methods (utilising appropriate software and digital solutions), to inform and enable decision making within the development or delivery of environmental solutions. This includes assessing data suitability, validity, quality, and accuracy relative to its intended application.
Effectively and safely manage tasks or projects, within environmental, legal, contractual and statutory requirements, to agreed time and resource budgets, and to agreed quality standards, through the application of appropriate project management tools and techniques.
Deliver high quality accurate, well-structured documents and recommendations for the work for which they are responsible and are appropriate to those for whom they are intended.
Develop and maintain productive working relationships with stakeholders and colleagues and support and guide team members to enable them to achieve the team’s objectives as well as their own. Actively seek and provide feedback, support decision making processes, and manage any conflicts that may arise in their work with integrity, fairness and consistency in decision making.
Communicate effectively orally and in writing in both formal and informal contexts, and with a variety of stakeholders. Listen actively to ensure the views of others are considered appropriately.
Manage their own work independently within the limits of their ability, authority and responsibility, making use of support and specialist expertise when appropriate. Seek feedback on their performance, looking for ways to improve it.
Develop their own professional competence, regularly updating and reviewing their CPD records and develop an extended network to support their professional development and maintain the required standard of, ethical behaviours and codes of conduct, associated with the environmental profession.

Your training plan

Whilst on the scheme, we’ll support your technical development through a wide range of on-the-job practical experiences and placements. We’ll also support your professional development through a combination of classroom-led training courses, online training courses, mentoring opportunities, and structured networking opportunities.

You'll also receive one-to-one guidance throughout the programme from your:

Placement manager: Responsible for your day-to-day management and support with your development
Scheme sponsor: A senior manager who acts as a technical and professional adviser and has line manager responsibility
Buddy: Usually an apprentice or graduate who gives support to you and ensure that you feel welcomed in the organisation
Development adviser: Supports your professional development through providing career coaching and career progression at TfL

The study element of the apprenticeship will be a mixture of day release with a few full weeks of block learning.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

any 2 subjects including Maths and English (grade 4 or above)

A Level in:

in any 3 subjects (grade A* to C or equivalent)

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
IT skills
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Presentation skills
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Caring, Open and Adapatable

Other requirements

London / Hybrid working. At least two days per week in the office - subject to working patterns and business requirements. One day a week at a London-based University.

About this company

At TfL, our work goes beyond transport. We keep London moving – day in, day out. We’re about building stronger connections, and helping people do more of what they love. From sustainable futures to post-pandemic economic recovery, we’re constantly breaking new ground, and taking innovation to new heights. For our people, this is more than just a job. Our apprentices are pioneers, frontrunners, and mentors. And, with a culture built on support and flexibility that puts wellbeing first.

Company benefits

Free travel on the TfL network for you and a nominee who lives in the same household. Discounted national rail and Eurostar travel. Minimum 29 days annual leave (pro rata dependent on role) plus public and bank holidays and many more.

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

This scheme focuses on creating sustainability leaders who can influence outcomes in roles including, but not limited, to:

Environmental Management
Sustainability Management
Responsible Procurement
Asset Operations and Strategy
Project and Infrastructure Delivery
General Management
Transport Policy and Planning
Finance
Governance and Legal Compliance

The apprenticeship will incorporate study with our chosen further education institution to gain Environmental Practitioner Apprentice Level 6 which is a degree-level qualification. Details on this apprenticeship, ref ST0778, can be found here: https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/environmental-practitioner-degree-v1-1

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

Transport for London

Recruitment Team

earlycareerscampaigns@tfl.gov.uk

0203 005 1680

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000303931.

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Closes in 13 days (Friday 7 March)

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Company’s application instructions

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