Are you in need of a Digital Marketing Executive? Are you looking for assistance with your email marketing, SEO, PPC, social media, or digital campaigns? Looking to increase your capacity with tools including HubSpot, Yoast, Google Ads and Google Analytics? Engage the government’s apprenticeship scheme to shape your junior digital talent and address your specific business needs.
Our passion is partnering with businesses like yours to nurture and grow great digital talent. We want to create opportunities for junior marketers to build their careers and gain a sense of purpose and belonging from their apprenticeship. We know our apprentices have big ambitions and experience tells us they’ll always remember where they started.
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What will my apprentice learn?
Your apprentice will gain industry recognised qualifications and we’ll coach them through topics including:
Are you looking to hire a new team member or do you have someone in mind? If you’ve already got someone on board, you may want to skip to the next section. Otherwise, keep reading.
Step 1: We work with you to recruit an apprentice. We’ll advertise your vacancy, conduct the initial screening and telephone interviews and set work-related challenges at no extra cost, before passing promising candidates to you for interview. Candidates range from school and college leavers to graduates to those with some work experience under their belt.
Step 2: You interview a selection of candidates and make the hiring decision. The apprentice is employed by you and works within your business. They spend 20% of their time (approx. 1 day per week) on off-the-job training, working towards their Level 3 qualification.
Step 3: Over 12-18 months, we coach your apprentice through their exams and coursework and help them apply their new knowledge and skills in the workplace. This coaching can be delivered at one of our training venues, online or at your premises.
Step 4: As your apprentice develops their skills, they start adding huge value to your team and bring a fresh perspective to business challenges.
Step 5: Your apprentice undertakes End Point Assessment and successfully completes their apprenticeship.
How much does it cost?
If your business has an annual payroll bill of more than £3m you will already be paying the apprenticeship levy. This money can be used to fund apprenticeship training and any money not spent reverts to the government.
Once your levy fund has been spent, or if you have a PAYE bill of less than £3m, the government pays 95% of the apprenticeship cost and you pay the remaining 5%. For the Digital Marketer standard this means the maximum you will be asked to pay is £550 per apprentice towards the cost of their training.
The biggest cost to hiring an apprentice is their salary. Although minimum wage for apprentices is £4.15 per hour, we’d recommend a salary of £12,000 to £18,000 per annum for a Digital Marketer to attract the right people to your role.
You can also take advantage of a £1,000 incentive payment from the government if your apprentice is aged 16-18 or 19-24 with an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan.
On top of this, the government has introduced Covid response incentives, valid for starts until 31st January 2021. This entitles you to an additional £2,000 when you employ an apprentice aged 16-24 or £1,500 if the apprentice is over 25.
It was very clear to me how Digital Native differentiate - they are flexible. They work with their clients to build a programme that fits.Cat Halstead, Head of Academy, Crimson
As Digital Innovators we needed apprentices with a passion for technology. Digital Native found the right apprentices for us and have become a valued business partner.Jon Swinbourne, Operations Director, B13 Technology
After running an apprenticeship program for a few years now we have finally struck gold with Digital Native and the way they do things.Matt Burrowes, Senior Technical Consultant, Triaster Ltd
At Digital Native we’re passionate about giving apprentices the skills and support they need to grow. That’s why each of our pathways offers a great mix of knowledge, industry-recognised qualifications and real-life experience to ensure you have the digital skills employers are looking for. Each standard also provides an opportunity to progress onto a degree apprenticeship.
Previously: studying Audio Engineering at the SAE Institute.
Currently: working as an apprentice in a rapidly expanding SAP consultancy as an Analytics Consultant developing dashboards for use in the Oil and Gas industries using QliK Sense, React and SharePoint.
Deliver 1st or 2nd line support to internal or external customers.
Help set up users and deliver infrastructure projects.
Learn the fundamentals of networking and architecture, operating systems and cloud services.
Meet Burhan
I am Digital Native.
Previously: studying A Level Maths, Physics and Computer Science at Five Ways Grammar School.
Currently: having worked in a small team creating MVP’s Burhan’s now working as an apprentice Data Scientist developing in-house data science tools using Spark, Hadoop, Gremlin, Power BI and Python.
Burhan Bashir | Apprentice Data Scientist
Latest Apprenticeship Vacancies.
Here are some of our recent apprenticeship vacancies across the UK. Roles are changing all the time so please send your CV and a covering letter to hello@dn-uk.com.
Previously: studying Engineering and Physical Sciences at University of Birmingham.
Currently: working as an apprentice data analyst for Bryt Energy for a renewable energy company owned by the largest generator of renewable energy. Leading on GDPR, data mapping and reporting using Power BI, SQL and Azure.
We are Digital Native. Our passion is partnering with businesses to nurture and grow great digital talent. We work with employers to build apprenticeship programmes that give both apprentices and businesses the skills they need to grow.
We live in a world with an abundance of free and easily accessible online courses, but the digital skills gap is still widening every year. We believe that courses alone don’t make better people and knowledge is not the same as skills.
That’s where our industry expert coaches come in. Their job is to support apprentices through the programme, sharing their extensive experience and helping apprentices apply what they’ve learned to become better employees. Our coaches are our best asset, but don’t take our word for it – read what our apprentices say.
Our digital apprenticeships provide training to address the most common skills gaps in CIOs digital strategies, enabling apprentices to access careers such as:
Data Analyst
Data Scientist
Software Developer
Software Tester
Business Analyst
Digital Marketer
Infrastructure Technician
Whether you’re a student looking for post A-level or degree employment options, an SME remedying a skills gap or a blue-chip upskilling a team, we can help.
We’ll work with you to identify what you’re looking for, hand pick the most relevant courses and provide an industry expert coach to support you at every stage of the journey. We deliver programmes across the UK through a blend of online learning and face to face delivery.
Why Digital Native?
We believe that successful apprenticeships give talented individuals a route to a financially secure future and support businesses to close skills gaps and expand their technical capacity. If you share this belief, we’d love to hear from you.
Are you Digital Native?
Meet the team.
Tony Harper
Curriculum Director
20yrs + experience in tier one consultancies, former CTO Business Information Management for global SI working with FTSE 100 companies.
Suzanne Higginson
Director
15yrs + experience of innovation in the education and training sector including owner / manager of numerous successful training companies.
Martin Stilgoe
Director
20yrs + experience in training and skills including 15yrs owner manager of respected independent training companies.
What employers say.
It was very clear to me how Digital Native differentiate - they are flexible. They work with their clients to build a programme that fits.Cat Halstead, Head of Academy, Crimson
As Digital Innovators we needed apprentices with a passion for technology. Digital Native found the right apprentices for us and have become a valued business partner.Jon Swinbourne, Operations Director, B13 Technology
After running an apprenticeship program for a few years now we have finally struck gold with Digital Native and the way they do things.Matt Burrowes, Senior Technical Consultant, Triaster Ltd
We are a specialist learning and development provider based in Birmingham with a full UK network, we are dedicated exclusively to delivering bespoke tech apprenticeships in IT, software, data and digital disciplines.
Latest Apprenticeship Vacancies.
Here are some of our recent apprenticeship vacancies across the UK. Roles are changing all the time so please send your CV and a covering letter to hello@dn-uk.com.
It was very clear to me how Digital Native differentiate - they are flexible. They work with their clients to build a programme that fits.Cat Halstead, Head of Academy, Crimson
As Digital Innovators we needed apprentices with a passion for technology. Digital Native found the right apprentices for us and have become a valued business partner.Jon Swinbourne, Operations Director, B13 Technology
After running an apprenticeship program for a few years now we have finally struck gold with Digital Native and the way they do things.Matt Burrowes, Senior Technical Consultant, Triaster Ltd