In 2023 the UK Government, industry stakeholders and partners created a standard for the knowledge, skills and behaviours expected from asset managers at a senior level. This Apprenticeship is designed to help managers and leaders achieve this standard and develop more sustainable organisations.This part-time Infrastructure Asset Management Professional Apprenticeship is particularly relevant if your organisation is looking to invest in its current and future asset management leaders to build your strategic capabilities.This level 7 Apprenticeship is fully funded through the Apprenticeship Levy, allowing employees to study part-time and develop the capabilities to lead asset management functions at a senior level.Benefits to employersYou identify and support the individuals you think would be best suited to this programme, which is designed to stretch participants and develop innovative, self-assured, resilient leaders with the commercial acumen to succeed in today’s challenging environment.Apprentices carry on working with you while they study and apply management theory within your workplace as they learn to adapt to new scenarios and implement new ideas.Through work-based assignments, participants develop practical and innovative solutions to current problems you may be facing. Graduates from our other apprenticeship programmes have gone on to design, update and improve core strategic processes within their organisations as a direct result of their studies.By offering this Apprenticeship, your organisation will be able to:use tangible benefits such as value-based decision making, innovative project management, strategic team leadership and continuous performance improvementaddress important skill gaps and create opportunities for meeting strategic needs through focused learningincrease the diversity and social mobility of your workforceempower, value and motivate emerging asset management leaders, enabling them to succeed.Apprentices spend time away from their job, studying through a mix of face-to-face, interactive online and work-based learning. The rest of their time is spent in the workplace applying their new skills and knowledge to your organisation. This enables them to balance their work commitments with studying part time at one of the UK’s leading universities.