Project Management Apprentice

Summary

If you're looking for a career that combines learning, responsibility and teamwork, this Project Management role at Ascent Flight Training is the ideal place to start. You'll support nationally important training programmes by planning project activities, tracking progress and budgets, organising meetings, and working with stakeholders.

Wage

£22,000 a year

Training course

Associate project manager (level 4)

Hours

Monday to Friday. Exact start and end time to be confirmed.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Wednesday 9 December 2026

Duration

2 years

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

As a Project Management Apprentice, you will become part of a team responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering a variety of projects. From the early stages of project planning through to completion, you will gain exposure to the full project lifecycle and develop skills that are highly sought after across many industries.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will involve supporting project managers and project teams to ensure work is delivered efficiently, on time, and within budget. You will help organise project activities, maintain schedules, monitor progress, and contribute to the successful delivery of project objectives. Throughout your apprenticeship, you will work closely with colleagues from different departments, customers, suppliers, and external partners, giving you valuable insight into how complex projects are managed in a real-world environment.

Key duties and responsibilities will include:

• Assisting with the planning, coordination, and delivery of projects from initiation through to completion.
• Supporting the creation and maintenance of project plans, schedules, and documentation.
• Monitoring project progress and helping to track milestones, deadlines, and key deliverables.
• Assisting with budget monitoring and helping ensure resources are used effectively.
• Identifying potential risks or issues and supporting the development of solutions to keep projects on track.
• Preparing reports, presentations, and project updates for internal teams and stakeholders
• Communicating with customers, suppliers, and colleagues to gather information and provide updates.
• Organising meetings, recording actions, and following up on agreed tasks.
• Using project management tools and systems to maintain accurate records and monitor performance.
• Contributing ideas for process improvements and supporting continuous improvement initiatives.

This apprenticeship is designed to provide a strong foundation in project management principles while helping you develop a wide range of transferable workplace skills. You will learn how to prioritise tasks, manage competing deadlines, solve problems, and communicate effectively with people at all levels of an organisation.

To be successful in this role, you should be motivated, organised, and eager to learn. You will enjoy working as part of a team while also taking responsibility for your own tasks and development. Strong communication skills, attention to detail, and a positive attitude will help you thrive in this exciting environment.

Where you'll work

220 Bristol Business Park
The Close
Bristol
BS16 1FJ

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

WESTON COLLEGE OF FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION

Training course

Associate project manager (level 4)

What you'll learn

Course contents

• Use project monitoring and reporting techniques to track, interpret and report on performance.
• Manage and engage with stakeholders.
• Influence and negotiate with others to create a positive outcome for the project.
• Resolve conflict as and when required with stakeholders within limits of responsibility.
• Adapt communications to different stakeholders.
• Communicate and support the project vision, to ensure buy in to the project objectives.
• Collate and analyse information and provide input to support negotiations relating to project objectives.
• Monitor and analyse project budgets.
• Review and provide feedback on a project business case to ensure the project remains valid.
• Apply change control processes to support the management of project scope.
• Evaluate an integrated project management plan to provide recommendations on areas for improvement.
• Prepare, monitor, and schedule activities that contribute to the delivery of the overall project schedule and objectives.
• Evaluate and make recommendations on the risk management plan to threats to delivery and recommend solutions.
• Identify and monitor project risks and issues; and plan and implement responses to them.
• Deliver a Quality Management Plan which contributes to quality control processes.
• Use an organisation’s continual improvement process including lessons learned to improve performance.
• Support the preparation or maintenance of a resource management plan for project activities.
• Work with stakeholders to deliver the project.
• Use digital tools and software to meet project objectives for example research, collaboration, presentations, and resolution of problems.
• Provide underpinning data to support the written submission through the governance process.
• Work within the approved project budget.
• Ensure that integrated schedules support critical path analysis, interface management, resource forecasting and risk management.
• Apply relevant legislation, regulations, codes of practice, and ethical guidance where appropriate to their work.
• Use data to inform decisions on actions to take to mitigate risks on project.
• Use configuration management and change control to schedule and maintain projects.
• Manages resources through the project lifecycle.
• Use project monitoring and reporting techniques to track, interpret and report on performance.
• Manage and engage with stakeholders.
• Influence and negotiate with others to create a positive outcome for the project.
• Resolve conflict as and when required with stakeholders within limits of responsibility.
• Adapt communications to different stakeholders.
• Communicate and support the project vision, to ensure buy in to the project objectives.
• Collate and analyse information and provide input to support negotiations relating to project objectives.
• Monitor and analyse project budgets.
• Review and provide feedback on a project business case to ensure the project remains valid.
• Apply change control processes to support the management of project scope.
• Evaluate an integrated project management plan to provide recommendations on areas for improvement.
• Prepare, monitor, and schedule activities that contribute to the delivery of the overall project schedule and objectives.
• Evaluate and make recommendations on the risk management plan to threats to delivery and recommend solutions.
• Identify and monitor project risks and issues; and plan and implement responses to them.
• Deliver a Quality Management Plan which contributes to quality control processes.
• Use an organisation’s continual improvement process including lessons learned to improve performance.
• Support the preparation or maintenance of a resource management plan for project activities.
• Work with stakeholders to deliver the project.
• Use digital tools and software to meet project objectives for example research, collaboration, presentations, and resolution of problems.
• Provide underpinning data to support the written submission through the governance process.
• Work within the approved project budget.
• Ensure that integrated schedules support critical path analysis, interface management, resource forecasting and risk management.
• Apply relevant legislation, regulations, codes of practice, and ethical guidance where appropriate to their work.
• Use data to inform decisions on actions to take to mitigate risks on project.
• Use configuration management and change control to schedule and maintain projects.
• Manages resources through the project lifecycle.

Training schedule

Apprenticeship Standard: Associate Project Manager (Level 4) – Skills England.
Duration: 18 months + 5 months End Point Assessment.
Delivery: 1 day every 2 weeks (online via MS Teams).

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

• English or equivalent (grade 4/C or above)
• Maths or equivalent (grade 4/C or above)

A Level in:

• or equivalent in any subject (grade C or above)
• or equivalent in any subject (grade C or above)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Customer care skills
• Problem solving skills
• Presentation skills
• Administrative skills
• Analytical skills
• Team working
• initiative
• Positive Can-Do Attitude
• Interest in how projects work

Other requirements

This role requires UK Government Security Clearance, so you must have lived in the UK for the last 5 years.