Deloitte BrightStart Higher Apprenticeship – Human Capital

Programme: BrightStart Higher Apprenticeship

Career Path: Consulting

Location: Belfast

Start Date: September-2026

Programme Description

What does this team do?

Deloitte’s Human Capital as a Service (HCaaS) team helps enable organisations to solve a wide range of business challenges, from HR and finance transformation to mergers and acquisitions and talent strategy. We offer clients specialised industry knowledge and leading-edge technology and business transformation services, delivered as ongoing, managed solutions.

Human Capital as a Service professionals bring specialist skills in project and programme management, change and communications, as well as research, analytics and hands on experience of leading-edge software and applications.

Our Human Capital as a Service team is based in Belfast, Northern Ireland and sits within Deloitte’s Human Capital practice. It is the largest Human Capital Consultancy team in the UK outside of London.

The service areas our BrightStarts can join are as follows:

Programme Management Office (PMO)

Our team of dedicated Project Management (PM) and Project Management Office (PMO) professionals provide comprehensive support for our client’s most significant and complex programmes, as well as strategically significant smaller projects.

Working closely with clients, we guide them through every stage of their projects and programmes, covering planning, risk and issue management, and performance reporting.

Our Brightstart programme cultivates future PM and PMO professionals by gaining practical experience as part of a programme’s PMO team, contributing to progress tracking, risk/issue management, and stakeholder reporting.

Transformation Activation (TA NI)

Our Transformation Activation (TA NI, otherwise known as Change Management) team is a multi-disciplinary team, that works with clients to deliver the people, behavioural and culture change associated with technology and digitally enabled business transformation. We support our clients to adapt to the changes required; ensuring they are ready, willing and able to support new ways of working.

As part of the TA team our BrightStarts support with assessing, planning, supporting, or delivering business change, communication, engagement and training solutions that are not only innovative, but deliver the most positive impact for all.

What skills and academic qualifications do I need?

• You’ll need to have obtained or be studying towards at least 104 UCAS points (260 UCAS points pre-2017) for your A levels (or equivalent) to be eligible for this programme.
• In this role you will study towards Ulster University BSc Hons in Business Technology Degree qualification.
• You will attend Ulster University for one day a week during term time and outside of term time you will be in our business 5 days a week.
• This is a degree apprenticeship; therefore, you need to have not already completed a degree.

What kind of work will I do?

Every project and programme is different, but some examples of responsibilities include: ​

• Creating a variety of high-quality materials for workshops, internal communications, project plans and progress reports.
• Participating in project workshops and meetings alongside our clients – contributing to discussions, taking  meeting minutes and logging actions.
• Developing and maintaining strong client relationships by providing a responsive service, demonstrating a clear understanding of their needs and consistently meeting their expectations with your delivery skills.
• Providing advice and assistance to our clients, tailored to their needs.

In addition to project work, you will have the opportunity to:

• Proactively supporting our business development by getting involved with internal HCaaS teams including Community, Learning and Development and Wellbeing.
• Working on new business activities, such as bids for new client opportunities. Getting involved with our Sector communities, building out our offerings to clients and helping to promote our team to the market.
• Our HCaaS Analyst Committee work directly with our Leadership team to ensure our Analysts Community has a voice.

Where will I work?

At Deloitte we recognise how important face-to-face interaction is for your development in a new role. We also understand that our people need flexibility, which is why we operate a hybrid system, with a combination of office and home working. If you’re in a client-facing role, you might be expected to attend our offices or the client’s site on certain days, while your meetings will be a mix of online and in-person events. Please note your induction and some ongoing training will also be in-person, to give you the opportunity to network and build relationships.

Application deadlines: There is no deadline for this role, but we recommend getting your application in as soon as possible. Please note, some of our role may close quickly if we experience high demand.

Assessment deadlines: Once you’ve applied to this role, you’ll receive an email from our recruitment team outlining next steps and the relevant deadlines for you to complete the following stages of our process.

We operate a strict one application per year policy across our Early Careers opportunities. We recommend only submitting an application for a role that you feel is right for you.

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