Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
Arcadis are currently recruiting for a WAA Support Coordinator to support our ongoing commitments to the Welsh Apprenticeship Alliance (WAA), which provides talented young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in Wales with an affordable route into professional careers as Quantity Surveyors and Engineers.
This is a varied and rewarding role, supporting the day-to-day management of the current apprentices while also helping to recruit each new annual intake. The position would suit someone with a strong interest in training and developing young talent in Wales, and who is motivated by helping apprentices progress into successful professional careers.
This role requires strong organisational skills to coordinate events and meetings with the construction industry supply chain, Welsh Government, colleges, and professional institutions such as the ICE. You will be a patient, professional, and supportive listener, able to build positive relationships with young apprentices while maintaining appropriate professional boundaries.
Role accountabilities:
Apprentice recruitment and employment support
- Interview and recruit the annual intake of new apprentices.
- Identify job opportunities within the Welsh construction supply chain.
- Match new apprentices with suitable employers and support the securing of employment opportunities.
Stakeholder engagement and partnership working
- Manage quarterly collaboration workshops for apprentices and employers.
- Advise supply chain partners on the latest changes to apprenticeship funding and levy arrangements.
- Communicate with colleges and universities to help ensure apprentices remain on track and are progressing effectively.
- Attend annual marketing activities and apprentice award events to promote the programme and celebrate apprentice achievements.
Qualifications & Experience:
5 GCSE’s or equivalent, training in MS Project and MS Office
Good IT skills regarding MS Project, communication is mainly via e-mails and text messages therefore professional typing skills would be an advantage.
- Ability to work from the Cardiff office two days per week.
- Willingness to undertake and successfully complete a DBS check.
- Full driving licence and willingness to travel intermittently to schools, colleges, employers and other stakeholder locations across Wales.
- Confident, engaging and self-motivated, with the ability to remain task-focused and work autonomously.
- Ability to promote and market the WAA effectively online and through direct engagement with employers.
Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
