IT Business Admin Apprentice

Recently finished your GCSEs or A-Levels and want your first full-time role or an alternative to college? Join our friendly IT team at Pavers Head Office, where you’ll gain valuable skills, training, and career opportunities to complete a Business Administration Apprenticeship.

The role will be based in our IT department in our York Head Office at Northminster Business Park. The position is full time, 39.5 hours per week and will be supported by an 18 month Level 3 Apprenticeship in Business Administration.

This apprenticeship, along with our on-the-job training, will give you the skills and knowledge to be able to support the IT team so that they can deliver the most robust solutions and platforms to the business in a cost effective, customer focused manner. You’ll be coached and mentored in the role by the Head of IT Operations along with support from other leaders withing the IT team.

What’s in it for you:

• A Salary of £17,233 per annum

• Generous colleague discount scheme, some of which can be shared with your family and friends!

• Apprenticeship Qualification

And that’s not all, working for Pavers comes with so much more to enjoy:

• Holiday entitlement that increases with service

• Company contribution pension

• Pavers Academy – enter a world of training at your finger tips!

• Pavers Foundation – nominate a cause close to your heart to receive a donation!

• Wellbeing and financial support through RetailTRUST

What will you learn:

• To work in an office environment gaining an understanding how a business operates and the function of each department

• To work as part of a team, collaborating to deliver against agreed timescales

• To plan and schedule work for yourself and the team to support delivery of the goals of the team

• To manage information in line with industry regulations

• To develop a customer focused mindset

• To understand more about how technology supports an organisation

We have a collaborative and friendly working environment where many of our colleagues have grown and developed through the business and we know that without our people, there is no business, and so the better we look after you the better service you will provide to customers. Snapshot of your duties as out IT Business Admin Apprentice:

• You’ll use business software applications to produce documents, spreadsheets, reports, dashboards and presentations

• Organising meetings, tracking actions, coordinating team activities

• Develop communication skills through both written and verbal channels (online and in person)

• Problem solving & decision making

• Track spend against budgets helping you to develop finance management skills

• Basic Cyber Security skills by developing your awareness in this area

• Develop an understanding of risk management in an IT function

What you’ll need to be our IT Business Admin Apprentice:

• Interest in IT/Technilogy

• ‘Can do’ positive attitude

• GCSE C or Level 4/5 in Maths & English

• Be able to communicate well, both written and verbal, being naturally chatty and inquisitive

• Good basic IT skills including basic knowledge of Microsoft packages

• Attention to detail with the ability to multi-task

• Able to use initiative

• Organisation skills with the ability to prioritise to meet deadlines

• Be a Team Player

• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Customer care skills
• Problem solving skills
• Number skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Initiative
• 'Can do' positive attitude.
• Ability to multi-task
• Able to use initiative
• Be a Team Player
• Microsoft Packages Knowledge
• Prioritisation Skills

• English GCSE, grade 4-9 (Desired)
• ICT GCSE, grade 4-9 (Desired)
• Maths GCSE, grade 4-9 (Desired)
• MS Excel Other, grade Pass (Desired)