Associate Project Manager Apprenticeship
About the course
Our Associate Project Manager Apprenticeship is designed to empower apprentices with the essential knowledge and skills to grasp project management principles, utilise tools, and employ techniques vital for ensuring successful project outcomes.
As apprentices, you'll have the exclusive opportunity to join the esteemed Chartered Association for Project Management (APM) as Student Members at no cost, providing access to invaluable resources and networking within the industry. Our comprehensive curriculum includes the renowned Chartered APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ), enriching your expertise and credentials.
Throughout the course, topics such as project stakeholder engagement, communication, budgeting, and risk management will be thoroughly covered, ensuring you're equipped with the tools to excel in your project management journey. The course also provides you with a comprehensive understanding of how to effectively allocate and utilise resources, as well as navigate the intricacies of contract and procurement processes. By delving into these critical areas, you'll be equipped not only to manage projects successfully but also to optimise resources, mitigate risks, and drive efficiency throughout every stage of your project management journey.
Qualifications
Qualifications attained upon completion include:
- Associate Project Manager Apprenticeship
- Cert HE Associate Project Manager (Apprenticeship)
- Chartered APM's Project Management Qualification (PMQ)
Units of Study
This unit will help you to identify and examine key skills and behaviours that will support you in realising your professional development ambitions and support you to begin to set and own the goals and shape your development on the course. We will support you in developing key communication skills, academic study skills, reflective practice and team building skills aligned with professional competence. The unit will also provide you with an introduction and understanding of the fundamental professional and personal skills necessary to support the goals of an organisation within the role of a project manager.
Project Management is a practice oriented subject area and requires the use of models and techniques to achieve specific outcomes. The unit aims to develop your understanding of project management and its diverse application in a number of contexts, which will enable you to understand available methodologies, tools and methodologies for managing projects, understanding the advantages and disadvantages of each. The unit learning will also enable you to approach new projects equipped with the necessary skills to bring projects to successful conclusion. Project Management Practice will give you the needed introduction and practice of project management techniques, models, and tools. This will equip you with the skill of applying them at the workplace.
The unit explores key concepts and theory that underpins decision making in the areas of project procurement, resource management, budgeting and finance. Processes in organisations have evolved beyond a single site, integrated activities to internationally distributed operations. The emphasis will be on managing the issues and problems encountered within contract and procurement management, and the difficulties of delivering projects and programmes within the agreed objectives. This unit will enable you to recognise the issues involved in managing resources within organisation, including those procured from outside the organisation, as well as issues impacting the preparation, recording, and summation of financial information.
The unit enables you to develop an understanding and appreciation for a range of behavioural science models, choosing from among them in a flexible way to fit organisational demands in any given, practical situation. Management and Leadership involves a deliberate and reflective assumption of roles, and you will be encouraged to reflect on your own performance as managers and leaders within a variety of projects or environments. You will gain an understanding of the use of HRM, teams and motivational techniques to ensure selection of approaches that are appropriate to a variety of stages and situations. You will also learn how to manage stakeholder relationships and issues around communication by building relationships and managing change in ever increasingly fast moving industries. The ability to develop management behaviours that are creative, professional, inclusive, collaborative and able to take responsibility for situations is also covered within the unit.
Upon successful completion of the course, apprentices become eligible for progression to associate membership of the Chartered Association for Project Management.
Entry requirements
- Level 3 qualification or demonstrate 2-3 years of relevant work experience, such as in business administration.
- Applicants must remain employed for the duration of the course, ideally committing to a minimum of 30 hours per week.
- Apprentices without Level 2 qualifications in English & Maths must attain this before undertaking the End-Point Assessment.
Fees - The fee for the Associate Project Manager apprenticeship is £6000. If your annual wage bill is less than £3 million, you'll only need to pay a maximum of 5% of the training costs, with the Government covering the remaining 95% if applicable. This results in a payment of just £300 for the apprenticeship. If you pay the levy, you'll receive funds to allocate towards the training and assessment of your apprentices.
