Corporate responsibility and sustainability practitioner apprenticeship, level 4 · Register title: Corporate responsibility and sustainability practitioner (ST0934)
Grow the person who turns your sustainability commitments into results
The Growth and Skills Levy covers the training and assessment, and we handle the enrolment and the paperwork. Your apprentice learns fully online, leading a real sustainability initiative in your organisation from strategy and stakeholders to data, quality and delivery. They might be your sustainability lead, an estates or operations manager given the brief, or a school's climate lead.
Matrix Standard accredited
What they'll be able to do
Three milestones, ending ready for assessment
Place sustainability within your strategy, manage risk, and plan how to engage stakeholders.
Manage sustainability data and governance, and build quality and continuous improvement into delivery.
Run a sustainability project or campaign with a business case, and be ready for end point assessment.
Their learning journey
Six themes, built around your work
Strategy and risk
Where sustainability sits in the business, the legal baseline, and risk tools.
Stakeholders and marketing
Stakeholder needs, communication, negotiation and partners.
Data
Sustainability data, governance and GDPR.
Quality
Measuring quality and continuous improvement.
Projects and campaigns
Project and change management, finance, and business cases.
Professional competence
Professional recognition, and preparing for assessment.
Work-based project
At least one work-based project, alongside methods the assessment organisation sets, such as a professional discussion or presentation. Graded pass or distinction under version 2.0, which applies to starts from 24 September 2026.
Every programme works the same way. They learn it, use it in your organisation, then look back at what they did and why.
Know it
Sustainability strategy, risk, data governance, and how change happens in organisations.
Show it
A real initiative led in your organisation, with data and a business case behind it.
Live it
Ethics, persuasion, and persistence.
Who you could put forward
Someone already with you, or someone new
Your sustainability lead
Someone with the brief who needs the method behind it.
An estates or operations manager given the sustainability brief
Responsible for the results, ready for the structure.
A school or trust climate lead
There's a school version of this programme.
Someone who's driven change already
A volunteer champion you want to make it their job.
You're trusting us with someone from your team. Here's how we look after them.
One trainer-coach from start to finish, who knows sustainability and gets to know your organisation's commitments.
A one-to-one review every month, and a three-way review with you at the end of every theme. Nobody is guessing where they are or what's next.
Fully remote and built around the working week: live online sessions, coaching huddles and workshops, so nobody leaves site to learn. No day or block release.
What your organisation gets
Commitments turned into results, with data you can report
Commitments turned into results
A real initiative delivered, measured and reported.
Data you can report on
Sustainability data managed properly, ready for the reporting you face.
A business case for the next step
Their project gives your leadership something to decide on.
Training and assessment are funded from the Growth and Skills Levy you already pay, up to the funding band for this standard. If you don't pay the levy, there's nothing to pay for apprentices under 25, and a 5% contribution for those aged 25 and over.
We check eligibility before you commit to anything. We complete the enrolment, the funding agreement, and the records the rules require, in the format auditors expect.
You get one named account manager, from your first conversation to your last review. If something isn't working, you go to them, and we take it seriously.
Where it fits
Where it sits on the ladder
Facilities manager, level 4 ›For estates professionals managing the whole estate.
The honest answers
Questions people actually ask
At least 487 hours of off-the-job training across the programme. We convert that into hours per week around their role and agree it in writing before anyone starts.
Yes.
Training and assessment are funded from the Growth and Skills Levy, up to £14,000. If you don't pay the levy, there's nothing to pay for apprentices under 25, and a 5% contribution for those aged 25 and over. We'll confirm exactly what applies before you commit.
If they move to a new employer, they can carry on their apprenticeship there. Your funding commitment from the Growth and Skills Levy ends when they leave.
Let's begin
Tell us who you'd like to back.
We'll reply within one working day. You'll know whether this programme fits them, what it costs you, and how quickly they could start. No commitment. And if we're not the right fit, we'll tell you.
Together, let's go