Business Administration Apprentice
ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL ENTERPRISES
Co Durham, DL13 2FJ
Closes in 11 days (Wednesday 16 October at 11:59pm)
Posted on 20 September 2024
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Summary
This role puts you at the heart of The Association for Cultural Enterprises as we work to support our members. You’ll be working with and learning from our small team of staff to assist them in their day-to-day work. There will be great variety within the role, all of which you’ll learn on the job with support from our fantastic team.
- Annual wage
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£11,648 a year
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
£6.40 per hour
- Training course
- Business administrator (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm, with a 1-hour lunch break, however some evening work may be required. We are flexible and accommodating, and working patterns can be discussed in an interview.
35 hours a week
- Possible start date
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Monday 28 October
- Duration
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1 Year 6 Months
- Positions available
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1
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 work with our team to provide administrative support across all elements of our work including membership, events and finance. Training and support will be provided throughout the apprenticeship to ensure you learn new skills and gain practical experience.
Here are the some of the things you could be working towards;
- Creating and sending invoices for our services including membership and events
- Checking the details on invoices are correct.
- Keeping our digital records up to date including marking invoices as paid and collecting membership information
- Assisting with event bookings
- Checking all bookings to ensure data is captured and following systems/processes that are in place
- Monitor payments for membership, events and other services and chase up outstanding invoices by contacting the relevant person within a member organisation
- Creating and printing resources for events such as badges, delegate lists etc.
- Communicating with our members such as sending email reminders for events, helping with evaluation (such as surveys after an event) and helping with enquiries, directing them to the relevant member of the team where required
- Help our team to plan any travel and accommodation they may require including record keeping for finances
- Attend monthly team meetings to learn more about our work and ways you can further support our team
Where you’ll work
Unit B7 Durham Dales Centre
Castle Gardens
Stanhope
Co Durham
DL13 2FJ
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
DERWENTSIDE COLLEGE
Your training course
Business administrator (level 3)
Equal to A level
Course contents
Your training plan
- Business Administrator Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard
- Training for this apprenticeship will be delivered from the workplace
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- Maths & English (grade 4/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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Administrative skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
Due to the nature of the role and attending events it is an age requirement for candidates to be age 18 or over. Must have good levels of communication, some IT skills and attention to detail. You will need to be organised and have a good level of number skills as well as having the enthusiasm and drive to achieve the knowledge, skills and behaviours needed for the role and apprenticeship. A full clean driving licence would also be desirable.
About this company
We are a registered charity (The Association for Cultural Enterprises), whose aim is “to provide education and training for all its members and the general public on commerce in the cultural and heritage sector; and to promote the voluntary sector for the benefit of the public by assisting voluntary organisations and charities to maximise their revenue by providing a forum for sharing information and ideas on commerce in the cultural and heritage sector”. With more than 500 member organisations (mainly in the UK but also in the EU) we help the cultural sector to learn and share ways to better generate earned income through entrepreneurial activity - retail, venue hire, picture libraries, publishing, catering, experiences, ticketing and more. We provide training and education within our flagship Cultural Enterprise Academy as well as hosting and organising a busy annual programme of conferences, face-to-face masterclasses, study days, awards (which celebrates creativity, innovation and talent in the sector) and tradeshows.
https://culturalenterprises.org.uk/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
Benefits include unlimited holiday policy, flexible working hours in agreement with line manager and life assurance.
After this apprenticeship
- Whilst there is no automatic progression, we would explore the possibility of further training and/or a permanent role at the end of the apprenticeship, for the right individual
- Alternatively, we would explore progression into the sector in another way and hope to equip you with valuable skills, knowledge and experience during the apprenticeship
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
DERWENTSIDE COLLEGE
Apprenticeship recruitment team
apprenticeships@derwentside.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000278128.
Apply now
Closes in 11 days (Wednesday 16 October at 11:59pm)
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