HR Degree Apprenticeship
Location: London - 185 Farringdon Road, London, EC1A 1AA
Hours: Monday – Friday 36 hours per week
Qualification: 3-year programme covering Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship (Level 6)
Start Date: September 2025
Salary: £25,082 rising each year
Do you want to build a career in Human Resources (HR), working alongside enthusiastic and talented people? Do you thrive on new challenges and have the drive and determination to deliver a first-class service for our people? Do you want to earn while you learn with a competitive starting salary?
We have an exciting opportunity for the right people to join our HR team through our brand-new HR Degree Apprenticeship Programme, First Class Futures, starting September 2025.
Now is a fantastic time to join Royal Mail as we transform and reinvent our business for future generations. Royal Mail is part of the fabric of the nation, bringing trust to the doorstep and making billions of deliveries possible each year. We are part of local communities and serve our customers with pride.
Our First Class Futures Programme provides unique exposure and development across the HR function to gain the skills, knowledge, and experience to kickstart a successful career in HR. During the 3 year scheme, you will gain first hand HR experience through 3 placements, whilst also being supported to complete a fully funded Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship (Level 6) with Corndel College London.
Placement areas include:
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI): helping us achieve our goal to be an employer of choice across the diverse communities we serve by creating a workplace where colleagues feel they belong and can thrive
- HR Business Partnering: working as part of a team of 60 colleagues helping business leaders to successfully implement Royal Mail’s HR priorities
- HR Service Delivery: being part of the team which provides the core services our people expect day in, day out (including recruitment, employee relations, pay and pensions)
- Reward, policy and performance: helping us to understand the impact HR is having across Royal Mail and using this to create the right policies and approaches to make things even better
- Talent: enabling us to understand the talent that exists across Royal Mail and what we might need in the future, including the development of new talent programmes (e.g. apprenticeships, graduate schemes, leadership development)
- Wellbeing: ensuring our team of 125,000 colleagues have access to the support and services they need to improve their health and wellbeing
Apprenticeship Overview
Our HR team partners and collaborates with leaders across the business to deliver an HR Strategy that is directly linked to business priorities. It is important that HR professionals truly understand the business to identify where they can add value and enable our people to be at their best; therefore, we have chosen to offer a Chartered Manager Degree as part of this programme to help you understand how our business works, create solutions for sustainable business change and become a trusted HR consultant.
Key modules include:
- Management and Leadership Practice
- Using and Presenting Business Information
- Managing People and Teams
- Finance for Non-Financial Managers
- Managing Business Projects
- Strategic Management
- Research and development projects
Does this sound like the right opportunity for you to build your skills and make a difference?
About You
- You have aspirations to build a career within the HR function
- You are passionate about people and want the opportunity to shape employee experience
- You are driven and able to balance on the job learning with a fast-paced degree, bringing your learning into practice along the way (typically 6 hours of apprenticeship study each week)
- You are willing to learn and bring new ideas into the organisation
- You are a team player, and will thrive as part of a small, supportive cohort
You will also have
- Level 2/GCSE Maths and English at grade C/4 or higher
- Level 3 qualification (A Level/equivalent at grade BBB+/ 120 UCAS Tariff points)
Next Steps
Closing Date: 15th April 2025. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.
The next stage of the selection process will be a virtual assessment centre consisting of competency based and role specific questions as well as a pre-prepared presentation. Virtual assessments are likely to be held in May 2025.
