Project Management Apprentice (Level 4 Project Management Apprenticeship)

As a Project Management Apprentice, you’ll be part of a nationally respected team driving meaningful change across Essex. You’ll gain hands-on experience supporting a wide range of projects from enhancing digital services and transforming education and adult social care, to improving highways, waste, and resident experience. Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

Requirements

• The right to permanently live, work, and study in the UK (apprenticeships are not covered by student visas).
• If shortlisted, your previous learning records and completed qualifications will be assessed by the training provider for eligibility.
• You cannot have previously completed a qualification at the same level or above in a related field.
• If your role requires a DBS check, you will need to register with the DBS update service.
• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Team working

Responsibilities

• Assist in coordinating day-to-day project activities and processes.
• Support the preparation and maintenance of project documentation (plans, reports, risk logs, etc.).
• Help monitor progress against project milestones and escalate issues where necessary.
• Contribute to stakeholder communications and engagement activities.
• Provide administrative support, including scheduling meetings, capturing actions, and maintaining records.
• Learn and apply project management methodologies under supervision.
• 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 with stakeholders within limits of responsibility.
• Adapt communications to different stakeholders.
• Communicate and support the project vision to ensure buy-in to 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 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 regarding 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 that contributes to quality control processes.
• Use an organization’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 (e.g., research, collaboration, presentations, and problem resolution).
• Provide underpinning data to support written submissions through the governance process.
• Work within the approved project budget.
• Ensure integrated schedules support critical path analysis, interface management, resource forecasting, and risk management.
• Apply relevant legislation, regulations, codes of practice, and ethical guidance as appropriate.
• Use data to inform decisions on actions to mitigate project risks.
• Use configuration management and change control to schedule and maintain projects.
• Manage resources through the project lifecycle.