SPECIFICATIONS

Level: 4

Typical duration in months: 24

Overview:

Projects can be defined and delivered within different contexts, across diverse industry sectors. They can be large or small. Every project needs to be managed to ensure its success.

An associate project manager knows what needs to be achieved, how it will be achieved, how long it will take and how much it will cost, and works with the project team to achieve the required outcomes.

Associate project managers need good planning, organisation, leadership, management and communication skills. An associate project manager utilises resources with suitable skills, qualifications, experience and knowledge to work together in a motivated and integrated team, with clearly defined reporting lines, roles, responsibilities and authorities.

Dependent upon the size of the organisations and the complexity of projects, associate project managers’ job titles will vary, but typically they can include: assistant project manager, junior project manager, project team leader. Some organisations use ‘project manager’ as a generic job title.

Knowledge and Skills

• Project governance Operational management
• Project stakeholder management
• Project communication
• Project leadership
• Consolidated planning
• Budgeting and cost control;
• Business case and benefits management
• Project scope
• Project schedule
• Resource management
• Project risk and issue management
• Contract management
• Project quality
• Project context
• Professionalism
• Personal qualities
• Managing performance
• Adaptability
• Responsibility

Behaviours

• Collaboration and team work
• Leadership
• Effective and appropriate communication
• Driven
• Results orientated
• Integrity, ethics, compliance and professionalism
• Agile
• Professional

Qualifications:

Either before or during the apprenticeship, apprentices will be required to achieve level 2 qualifications in English and Mathematics prior to taking end point assessment (EPA). Apprentices are required to achieve a suitable level of knowledge as part of their development such that they achieve an IPMA Level D qualification or APM Project Management Qualification, prior to their EPA.