AddressStart date March/ April 2024
Location: London
Your role:
As an Facilities Management Supervisor Apprentice, you will be joining our facilities team who are based in London with regional support throughout UK & Irish sites . This apprenticeship offers a unique opportunity to learn from experienced mentors while contributing to real-world projects and initiatives.
You will study towards your Level 3 Diploma in Facilities Management Supervisor, receive mentoring and coaching bespoke to you and delivered by some of the most experienced in the industry.
Being an Apprentice at News UK. During your time with us you will earn above living wage, get full training, with all your course fees paid. You will also receive mentoring from the industry’s best, as well as any other equity you might need to fulfil your full potential.
Your team: Manages building and client services at The News building as well as other publishing and broadcasting sites all over the UK & Ireland. We handle day to day activities as well as property and office relocations.
Day to day you will:
You will learn on the job and some of the duties you will support with include:
Workplace management - Understand the different function within FM such as maintenance systems, catering services and waste management
Support our helpdesk functions, talking to clients to resolves issues and communicating with the FM contractors in their daily functions
Provide contract administrative and operational support to the wider team including but limited to meeting minutes, create presentations
Communicate with key contacts around the business
Property management - Understanding the key aspects of commercial leases, dilaps, rent reviews, etc.
Learn financial management - working with budgets and analysing spend
What we’re looking for from you:
Teamwork - Working with our teams in and around our regional offices
Willingness to take on any tasks. A good team player who communicates well.
To be organised and flexible - managing your day to day learning and training
Good interpersonal skills
Application Process
Online Application > Google Meet Interview> Assessment day
As part of the Online Application process, we would like you to provide answers to our application questions that explains why you want to join News UK and answer the following 3 questions:
Tell us about yourself and why you have applied for this Apprenticeship?
What 3 skills do you think you need to have to be successful in the role? Using one, please give an example of when you have used this skill.
Please describe the key role a facilities team has in an organisation.
We are News UK:One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIOandVirgin Radio, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.
Life at News: At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.
We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.
We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes:
Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions
Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes
‘Bikes for Work’ scheme
Physio/massage,
Counselling
A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
Maternityleave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;
Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
