Apprentice Project Manager

Summary

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.

Wage

£27,705 a year

London Living Wage

Training course

Associate project manager (level 4)

Hours

Monday to Friday, 8.00am - 4.00pm.

36 hours a week

Start date

Sunday 20 September 2026

Duration

1 year 6 months

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

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

Where you'll work

Pondfield House 100 Wantz Road
Dagenham
Essex
RM10 8PP

Training

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

Training provider

NEWHAM COLLEGE OF FURTHER 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

• This apprenticeship is delivered as a day release at our site in Stratford, E15
• You will be required to attend college once a week
• Level 4 Associate Project Manager
• Behaviour, Skills and Knowledge

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

• 5 Subjects (grade 4/C)
• English (grade 4/C)
• Mathematics (grade 4/C)

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
• Problem solving skills
• Presentation skills
• Administrative skills
• Number skills
• Analytical skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Initiative

Other requirements

Please note this role is only open to residents of the London borough of Barking & Dagenham.