Apprentice Burials Administration Officer

You will be enrolled on the Level 3 Business Administration Apprenticeship Standard with one of our preferred training providers. You will be expected to attend the college on day-release basis to complete your apprenticeship.

As an Apprentice Burials Administration Officer, you will be supported by qualified staff in all areas of your role.

Duties include (but are not limited to):

• Provide technical and administrative support across multiple functions, working alongside experienced managers and teams. 
• Develop knowledge, skills and behaviours in the organisation of burials in accordance with Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management including all statutory requirements and liaison with funeral directors and bereaved families.
• Learn how to process and support the substantiation of legal Exclusive Right of Burial ownership, ultimately producing legal documentation based on individual circumstances for ownership transfers i.e. statutory declarations, form of assent, assignments, renunciations and relinquishments.
• Assist in providing technical and general support to burial teams.
• Develop competency in maintaining and updating all records and registers (written and computerised) in respect of the burial service.
• Learn how to prepare reports and compile data or statistics as requested.
• Assist with stock control and re-ordering of registers, orders, permits, etc.
• Learn the processes involved with the authorisation and issuing of permission to monumental masons to erect all individually applied for memorials.
• Develop knowledge in the provision of information regarding family history searches.
• Support the organisation and procurement of memorial benches for customers, siting of same and organising installation.