Non-profit employees can learn Salesforce for free

Due to apprenticeship levy funding restrictions candidates must work for a non-profit or company that is registered in England and work at least 50% of the time physically in England. Candidates working remotely in Scotland or Wales full time are not eligible

By joining our apprenticeship programme you are adding value in your existing role gaining a Level 4 Business Analyst qualification as well as Salesforce Consultancy and Service Cloud, Sales Cloud or Non Profit certifications. Gaining these additional qualification also adds value to your CV enabling you to progress further, ask for that promotion and increase your salary.

The benefits to your employer are that they are increasing the skill set in their team without the added time and cost associated with recruiting someone new.

• The length of the Salesforce Admin programme is 15 months and the length of the Salesforce Business Analyst programme is 18 months in duration* (This includes a three-month End Point Assessment process.)
• You would be required to commit an average of 6 hours per week paid work time to learning and applying your skills in practice by completing Admin and/or BA tasks. All of your work you undertake will be presented in a portfolio to evidence your application of knowledge to pass your certification.
• At the time of enrolment onto the Apprenticeship it is expected that activities related to Salesforce Admin or Business Analysis would be part of your normal job role and responsibilities, but by embarking on this learning journey it will enable you to spend an average of 6hrs a week on related learning, projects and tasks that will be of direct value to your company.
• All tasks related to these hours must be tracked and eligible to successfully pass the apprenticeship. The time for job tasks needs be during working hours and they can include:
  • Theory – such as lectures, role playing, online learning, simulation exercises or product training.
  • Practical Training – apprentices taking part in activities they wouldn’t usually do during the week such as shadowing, mentoring, industry visits or competitions.
  • Learning support and time spent writing assignments
  • Creating a business project 
  • Attending meetings which they would not normally attend to get an insight into other areas of the business and see how this impacts their part.
• As a formal accredited course it is essential that learners are committed to attending training sessions, completing the online learning and creating portfolio documentation ready for assessment to successfully pass the course.

An IS (Information Systems) Business Analyst is an advisory role that provides a critical layer of challenge and scrutiny for organisations who wish to deliver IS change successfully.

Leading industry research highlights that the main reasons why CRM projects fail is not related to technical knowledge, but because of:

• poor business analysis
• inefficient project management
• low executive sponsorship and ineffective change management.

>If you are managing a Salesforce implementation as a solo admin or consultant, we advocate the necessity to be equipped with the relevant skills to do a brilliant job. You might even be doing the role of a Business Analyst already but don’t know it or have that job title!

Apprenticeships are a popular study option and a great way to gain hands on experience whist studying towards and industry recognised qualification, all while still earning a salary as many are done through a current employer. Traditionally apprenticeships were known as an entry training route for young people, but now Apprenticeships are just regarded as a  formal way of providing on-the-job training whilst people are working in their existing job roles.