Motability Operations Scholarship Programme

We’re Motability Operations, the organisation that delivers the Motability Scheme to over 860,000 customers across the UK.

We exist to deliver smart, sustainable solutions that improve our customers’ mobility in a fast changing world. As part of that commitment, we offer two scholarship opportunities for undergraduate students.

These scholarships provide financial support towards tuition fees, paid summer work experience and ongoing mentoring.

What the scholarship includes

Both scholarships offer the same level of support.

You will receive:

• A bursary of up to £9,535 per academic year, paid towards your university tuition fees, for a maximum of four academic years. This bursary supports tuition costs only and is not an additional maintenance payment

• A six week paid summer placement each year during your studies at our London, Bristol or Edinburgh offices

• Ongoing mentoring and guidance from a Motability Operations colleague

• Access to experience across departments such as Technology, Finance, Customer Services, Commercial Operations, Marketing and Human Resources

Our aim is to help reduce financial barriers to higher education while giving you meaningful professional experience.

Six week paid summer placements

Each year, you will complete a six week paid placement with us.

During this time, you will:

• Work on real business projects

• Build professional skills and workplace confidence

• Learn how different parts of our organisation operate

• Gain practical experience that complements your degree

Placements are structured and supportive, designed to help you develop and grow.

Our scholarships are designed to support talented students from underrepresented backgrounds.
We offer two separate scholarship opportunities, and you can apply for the one that best reflects your lived experience.

Disability Scholarship
Open to students who identify as having a disability, a long term health condition, or who identify as neurodivergent.

Ethnicity Scholarship
Open to students who identify as being from an Asian, Black, Mixed or other Ethnic background.

You can be studying any undergraduate degree subject.

We are looking for students who are motivated to learn, open to new experiences and interested in developing professionally. You do not need previous corporate experience.

The scholarship can support you for up to four academic years. Whether you are about to start university or already studying, we can support you for the remaining duration of your undergraduate degree, up to four years in total.

Recruitment Stages 

1) Application Stage (From 23rd February): 
As part of your application you submit your CV and answer four questions, which will be reviewed.
If you apply through the Disability Confident scheme and meet the minimum criteria, we will progress your application to the video assessment stage.

2) Video Assessment (From 13th March): 
If you progress to our video assessment, you will answer questions via video response.
You will have thinking time and response time for each question.
Additional resources will be provided to support you with this stage.
You are given 6 days to complete your video assessment from when you receive your invitation

3) Virtual Interview (between 31st March - 2nd April): 
You will interview with us for approx. 20-30 minutes. This is an opportunity to get know you even more, and a chance for you to ask us questions. 

4) Assessment Centre (week commencing 20th April): 
You will be invited to attend a final stage assessment centre, which will involve a group activity. 
You will be given 1-2 weeks to prepare for the day. We will provide more information following the virtual interview.

Offer:
If you are successful at the Assessment Centre stage, you will be offered the Scholarship.
This will cover your tuition from academic year 2026-2027, with your first experience in Summer 2027. 

We are the company behind the Motability Scheme. We deliver smart, sustainable solutions that improve our customers’ mobility in a fast changing world.

We are the UK’s largest car leasing company and help over 860,000 people get on the road.

We employ more than 1,800 people across London, Bristol, Edinburgh and Coalville. We know our people are key to our success. So we create an environment where everyone can flourish and do their best work.

What we do

We lease a wide range of tailored mobility solutions to people who receive one of the Government’s qualifying mobility allowances. Customers can choose a car, Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle, scooter or powered wheelchair that suits their needs. We take care of insurance, breakdown, servicing and more as part of our worry free package.

At the end of the lease, customers can exchange their vehicle for a brand new model. Each year we sell and move around 200,000 cars, making us the largest single source supplier of used vehicles back into the market.

The Scheme has been providing affordable, worry free motoring for over 45 years. We are proud to deliver outstanding customer service, with an independent satisfaction rating of 9.4 out of 10.

How we work

We work in a hybrid way. That means remotely for up to two days each week and in our office spaces the rest of the time. This gives us a good work life balance and allows us to collaborate and deliver for our customers.

Visit our website to find out more.

We do our best to accommodate part time and flexible working requests where possible, to build on our culture of trust, empowerment and flexibility.

Our beliefs and values

We are committed to building a diverse workforce, where everyone feels able to be themselves at work. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

Our values guide everything we do:

We believe no one should be left behind. We find solutions
We believe we must take the lead. We drive change
We believe everything starts with the customer. We care

For any questions about this opportunity, please email [email protected].