Apprentice Project Manager

Introduction

Please note this role is only open to Barking & Dagenham residents. The Apprentice Project Manager of Business & Transformation will support the team with the delivery of enterprise-wide transformation programmes that directly support the organisation’s long-term strategic goals. These include digital modernisation etc.

About the Employer

We are a property and facilities services group that serves our communities by providing healthy catering for schools, cleaning services and responsive home repairs and maintenance, while creating opportunities for local people to live, work, and grow for a fulfilling future.

What You'll Do

Job Purpose

• Support Delivery: Assist experienced project managers in delivering projects from inception to handover, across all transformation
• Methodology Application: Apply formal PM methodology to initiate and execute projects
• Administrative Coordination: Manage project documentation, diaries and meeting logistics

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Project Documentation: Prepare and maintain key project document, such as project plans, risk logs, and issue logs to high standards
• Risk and Issue Management: Assist in identifying, monitoring, and managing risks to project delivery, proposing solutions, and updating risk registers
• Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate with internal and external stakeholders, including conducting meetings and coordinating with teams across the organisation
• Resource and Schedule Management: Monitor project schedules, track progress against milestones, and assist with resource planning
• Governance and Reporting: Support project governance arrangements by drafting progress reports for senior management and attending project board meetings
• Budgeting: Assist with monitoring expenditure and tracking project spend against budgets

Training Outcome

After successfully completing the apprenticeship, there may be an opportunity to secure a permanent role.

Skills Required

• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Problem solving skills
• Presentation skills
• Administrative skills
• Number skills
• Analytical skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Initiative

Qualifications

• Essential - GCSE - 5 Subjects - 4/C
• Essential - GCSE - English - 4/C
• Essential - GCSE - Mathematics - 4/C

Course Information

Course: Associate project manager (level 4)

Level: 4

Route: Business and administration

Apprenticeship Level: Higher

Working Arrangements

Working Week: Monday to Friday, 8.00am - 4.00pm.

Expected Duration: 1 Year 6 Months

Training Provider: NEWHAM COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION