Associate Project Manager

You’ll help manage project work and teams for businesses and other organisations on an associate project manager apprenticeship course.

Any project, large or small, must be managed to ensure its success. As an apprentice, you’ll develop into a capable associate project manager who knows what has to be done, how it should be done, how long it will take, how much it will cost, and who can work with the project team to complete the task.

In this occupation, you’ll need excellent planning, organisation, leadership, management, and communication skills to hire people with the right qualifications, experience, and knowledge and to work together with clearly defined reporting lines, roles, responsibilities, and authorities.

When you first start, you can join the Association for Project Management as a student member as a first step toward professional membership.

What you’ll learn

On an associate project manager apprenticeship course, you’ll learn to:

• Interact with a wide spectrum of people. Participate in discussions on the project’s objectives.
• Create and agree on project budgets, track expected and actual costs, and keep track of changes. Encourage people to submit funding applications. Tracking methods for actual, accrual, and committed costs; various cost breakdown models.
• Contribute to the development or upkeep of a business case and the achievement of targeted outcomes.
• Identify changes to a project’s scope, including assumptions, dependencies, and constraints.
• Consolidate and document projects. Monitor progress against the consolidated plan and make necessary revisions, utilising the change control technique.
• Prepare and maintain project-specific activity calendars.
• Identify and track project risks and opportunities, develop and implement action plans and contribute to a risk management strategy.
• Establish a quality management strategy, supervise project assurance, and participate in peer reviews. Employ a company’s continuous improvement strategy, which incorporates lessons learned.
• Develop project resource management strategies, recruit and manage resources, including commitment acceptance, and track progress against goals.

Entry requirements

You’ll usually need:

• 4 or 5 GCSEs at grades 9 to 4 (A* to C) and A levels, or equivalent, for a higher apprenticeships 
• Apprentices without level 2 English and maths will need to achieve this before taking the end-point assessment.

Assessment methods

The End Point Assessment comprises two assessment methods: 

• Presentation is supported by a portfolio of evidence (to be submitted before the end point assessment). 
• Professional discussion is supported by a portfolio of evidence (to be submitted before the end point assessment).  

Duration, level, subjects and potential salary upon completion

Apprenticeship standard

More information about the Level 4 Associate Project Manager Apprenticeship standard can be found here.

Apprenticeship end point assessment

For more information about the End Point Assessment Process, please read the Institute of Apprenticeships’ information page.