Business Administration & Marketing Apprentice

You’ll work alongside our experienced Business Administrator and support our Directors in a varied role including, Fire Risk Assessment Administration, Executive and General Business Support, Marketing and Communications, and Business Development Support.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Answering telephone calls and responding to customer enquiries.
• Recording customer information accurately and keeping our systems up to date.
• Booking appointments and coordinating fire risk assessments.
• Communicating with clients, assessors and suppliers.
• Helping prepare quotations, documents and correspondence.
• Supporting the Directors with diaries, meetings, flights and international travel.
• Preparing spreadsheets, presentations and reports.
• Helping create social media content and marketing materials.
• Supporting business events, exhibitions and conferences.
• Assisting with the administration of international consultancy projects.
• Helping improve the way we organise and run the business.

You will be undertaking the Level 3 Business Administrator Apprenticeship Standard and fully supported by HTP Apprenticeship College.

You will be developing Knowledge, Skills, and Behaviours in the following areas:

• IT
• Record and Document Production
• Decision Making
• Interpersonal Skills
• Quality Planning
• Project Management
• Business Processes

As part of the off-the-job training, you will complete a portfolio of evidence, attend online workshops, have time to study independently, undertake research and write assignments.

The apprenticeship is assessed independently at the end of the practical training. The assessments include an online multiple-choice test, a business project and presentation and a professional discussion based on a portfolio of evidence.

At SC Limited, we believe in growing our own talent.

We’re a small but ambitious business with exciting plans for the future, and we want to find people who can grow alongside us.

We’re not simply looking for someone to complete an apprenticeship or fill an administrative vacancy. We want to find someone with the right attitude, ambition and potential, invest in their development and give them the opportunity to build a long and rewarding career.

As the business grows, we expect new opportunities and responsibilities to develop. Someone joining us today as an apprentice could, over time, progress into business management, operations, marketing, project coordination or a senior role helping to run the company.

We’re happy to invest in further training and qualifications, potentially including a degree apprenticeship, for someone who demonstrates the commitment and ability to progress.

You don’t need to know exactly where you want your career to take you. You just need to be enthusiastic, willing to learn, prepared to work hard and excited about the opportunity to grow with us.

We’re not just offering an apprenticeship. We’re offering the chance to become part of our future.

We want to give candidates the opportunity to demonstrate what they can do, not simply tell us about it in an interview.

Shortlisted applicants will be invited to complete a short practical assessment involving:

• A simulated customer telephone enquiry.
• Recording information accurately.
• Writing a professional customer email.
• A basic Microsoft Office exercise.
• We aren’t looking for perfection or previous knowledge of fire safety.

We want to see how you communicate, organise information, approach problems and respond to feedback.

SC Limited is a specialist fire safety and resilience advisory  consultancy based in Southampton.

We work with clients across the UK and internationally, helping organisations manage fire safety, emergency planning, crisis management and organisational resilience.

Our clients range from local property owners and businesses to major organisations, government bodies and emergency services.

Our work is varied and interesting. One day we might be arranging a fire risk assessment for a local business, and the next we could be supporting an international project or organising a meeting overseas.

We’re a friendly, close-knit team who work hard, support each other and take pride in what we do.