Course description
Business Administrator Level 3 Apprenticeship
Business administrators offer a crucial role in any business, covering a host of responsibilities that need to be managed efficiently and effectively. Positions in these areas often demand outstanding written and verbal communication skills to engage with various departments within your organisation. These attributes are often combined with a positive mindset, showing initiative and managing priorities to keep your business running.
This programme has been uniquely designed to give your talent a solid introduction to the essentials of business operations.The programme will help your employees develop the skills to become agile in their approach to deliver, maintain, and improve your central business functions. Your employees will learn to support and engage different parts of the organisation while learning how to interact with internal or external customers, working across teams to resolve issues as required.
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Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
Set by individual employers, but typically includes:
- 5 GCSEs (including English and maths) or equivalent, or
- Significant work experience
You must be employed in a role relevant to this programme to be eligible to apply.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Skills and Behaviours
- Understanding of the organisation and its operating environment
- Value of their skills
- Stakeholders
- Relevant regulation
- Policies
- Business fundamentals
- Processes
- External environment factors
- Professionalism
- Personal qualities
- Managing performance
- Adaptability
- Responsibility
Training Course Content
- Understanding business and organisations
- Introduction to project management
- Business governance
- Business operations
- Business project based on a current business challenge
- EPA preparation
Course delivery details
Contextualised learning
The programme includes virtual classroom sessions aimed at interactive activity and reflection with peers, alongside developmental workshops aimed at improving the skills developed in a practical way.
Supporting synchronous delivery
BPP’s virtual learning platform includes video content, e-text books, case studies and other learning resources. Self-study prepares your employees for expert discussion within class whilst setting objectives to apply learning in the workplace, retrospectively encouraging reflection for further development and improvement.
One-to-one professional mentoring
Your employees will be allocated a qualified and experienced professional to operate as a mentor throughout the programme. They will provide meaningful feedback on individual practice whilst helping to reflect on strengths and development areas to improve overall capability and performance of your employees.
Your employees will have telephone or video calls every 6 weeks with a BPP Coach who will help your employees to consider how their learning has been applied and to agree development objectives.
Participants will be required to build a professional portfolio to showcase their capabilities that include how they have applied the tools and frameworks that they have learnt throughout the programme.
Peer networks
Your employees will have access to BPP’s virtual community, with networking opportunities that attract a diverse mix of professionals.
Professional workshops
BPP will help your employees to further embed and reflect on their newly developed knowledge and skills with a host of dynamic workshops. These sessions are run by professional facilitators and are designed to be fun, interactive and engaging. There are six professional workshops for this programme which align with all six modules to ensure learning is being applied and bolstered with a network of live examples across various industries.
Continuing Studies
This apprenticeship provides great progression opportunities, including career progression through work experience and further study up to Master's degree level.