Exciting Opportunity: Level 4 Associate Project Manager Apprenticeship

An exciting opportunity to work directly alongside the CEO of a growing charity while completing a Level 4 Associate Project Manager Apprenticeship. You’ll gain hands on experience in finance, business management, project delivery, funding and executive support, with real responsibility from day one.

What You'll Do at Work

• Support the CEO with the day-to-day management and development of CDC Group.
• Monitor project budgets, expenditure, income and funding to help ensure projects remain financially on track.
• Maintain financial records, process invoices and update budget and expenditure trackers.
• Assist with financial forecasting, project costing and preparing management information.
• Coordinate projects, monitor deadlines, update project plans and follow up outstanding actions.
• Support the management of grants, including monitoring expenditure, outcomes, evidence and reporting deadlines.
• Assist with funding applications, project budgets and the development of new services.
• Manage the CEO’s diary, meetings, appointments and priorities.
• Prepare reports, correspondence, meeting papers, presentations and other professional documents.
• Attend meetings, take minutes and ensure agreed actions are recorded and progressed.
• Liaise with staff, Trustees, funders, suppliers, local authorities and partner organisations.
• Support procurement by obtaining quotations, comparing costs and helping assess value for money.
• Maintain accurate organisational, project and governance records.
• Help review business processes and develop systems that improve efficiency across CDC Group.
• Work across CDC’s Cosy Hub and Community Hub, with travel to activity and project locations when required.

Specialist Training

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

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.