Early Careers Apprentice
| Posting date: | 23 August 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 September 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester, M1 3BG |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75731406 |
Summary
Introduction
Are you passionate about supporting young people and creating work opportunities? Join us at TfGM as an Early Careers Apprentice and play a key role in delivering impactful programmes such as apprenticeships, T Levels, internships, and work experience. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a dynamic People team whilst also working towards a recognised qualification.
Throughout your time with us you'll be helping to design and deliver meaningful opportunities, as well as studying towards a Level 3 apprenticeship accredited by the CIPD.
Your Role
As an Early Careers Apprentice, you’ll provide essential support in the administration and delivery of TfGM’s early careers programmes. You’ll be the first point of contact for apprentices and managers; help coordinate placements and contribute to the development of our early careers strategy. You’ll also gain valuable experience in stakeholder engagement, data management, and policy implementation.
For more information, see the Job Profile below.
Who are we?
At TfGM, we connect people and places to improve lives across Greater Manchester. You’ll be joining a passionate People team that’s committed to creating inclusive opportunities and delivering social value. This role offers a unique chance to make a real difference in your community while developing professionally in a supportive environment.
What you’ll bring
We’re looking for someone with:
- A strong interest in early careers and the People profession.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
- Confidence using IT systems, especially Microsoft 365.
- A proactive attitude and willingness to learn.
- A minimum of Level 3 qualifications (A Levels, T Level, BTEC or equivalent) and GCSEs in Maths and English.
What we can offer you
This is a 2 year fixed-term apprenticeship with a competitive salary, offering:
- A supportive team environment.
- Opportunities to gain a formal qualification in a People function.
- Flexible working arrangements.
- A chance to contribute to meaningful projects that impact Greater Manchester.
Our benefits include:
- Generous annual leave starting at 28 days (plus bank holidays), increasing with service, with options to buy more.
- Free travel on buses across Greater Manchester, plus rail or Metrolink travel to and from work.
- Local Government defined pension scheme with life cover of 3x salary and options to boost your contributions.
- Enhanced family-friendly leave policies, including those supporting fertility treatment, alongside flexible and hybrid working and a special leave policy to support a range of unexpected events. Please note that qualification criteria may apply, including a requirement to have been employed with the organisation for a minimum specified period of time.
- Discover more benefits including wellbeing support, Personal and Career Development, Flexible working, financial support and more on our website
What's next?
If you believe you have the skills and experience required, we’d really like to hear from you. When completing your application, please ensure that you provide clear examples against the criteria questions, all appointments will be based on merit.
Internal candidates - check with your line manager before applying for a secondment, to make sure you can be released from your substantive role.
We embrace AI to enhance our operations and to innovate our services. However, we value human talent and are looking for passionate individuals to join our organisation. Please ensure you personally complete your application and read all the instructions carefully to maximise your chances of success.
Applications that rely too heavily on AI may be rejected during shortlisting, however we understand that AI may be used as a reasonable adjustment, if using AI to support your application, please give a brief explanation why to help ensure fair selection process.
TfGM is proud to be an equal opportunities employer that encourages and celebrates diversity. We want to recruit and retain a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and welcome individuals from all backgrounds by committing to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We will offer support and reasonable adjustments if required and we also have a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme which you can find out more information on here.
For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK - if in doubt please visit the following link Employers' right to work checklist - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Please note we are not a licensed sponsor.
Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.
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