Project Manager - Degree Apprenticeship

Course Code: EN00063

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Start Date	Location
22/01/2025	Employer's Premises	Enquire

08/09/2025	Employer's Premises	Enquire

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Course Overview

The Project Management Centre of Excellence’s Degree Apprenticeship develops the higher level skills needed by senior project managers to increase business effectiveness. This nationally recognised degree apprenticeship covers a broad range of project management disciplines to allow your employees to successfully oversee each stage of the project lifecycle.

This degree apprenticeship will develop the academic knowledge together with the higher practical and technical competences needed to increase productivity and achieve genuine competitive advantage. The Project Management Degree Apprenticeship comprises both the Foundation Degree (levels 4 and 5) and BSc (Hons) top-up level 6 programmes in project management, delivered concurrently with workplace skills and development.

Both the foundation degree and BSc (Hons) programmes are fully accredited by the Association of Project Management (APM) and awarded by Lancaster University.

Entry Requirements

While are a matter for individual employers, typically an apprentice might be expected to have achieved appropriate level 3 qualifications on entry eg 3 A-levels at grade 4/C or higher, or a vocational equivalent.

Apprentices are also typically expected to have achieved maths and English at level 2 prior to starting the apprenticeship.

Career Options and Progression

Project managers are responsible to the project sponsor/owner for the end-to-end delivery of a project or a subset of a project, dependent on the complexity and criticality to the business.

They have responsibility for delivering the project in line with defined objectives, taking decisions to manage stakeholder expectations by leading a multi-skilled, cross-disciplinary team to deliver the project to time, cost and quality requirements.

Using their unique knowledge, skills and leadership behaviours project managers will manage the social, legal and environmental implications of their project. In addition, they will manage a variety of interfaces with the organisational entities involved in the project, reporting to the project sponsor and working within the requirements of the programme and portfolio as appropriate.

A project manager must also have the competencies to contribute to benefits management and realisation, consolidating appropriate metrics to report thus ensuring that identified business benefits are achieved.

To achieve these objectives, project managers will apply appropriate governance and project management methods and techniques to initiate and execute projects, interfacing with other projects within larger project programmes to meet the strategic objectives of the organisation.

They will have an appreciation of programme management techniques and an understanding of how projects are managed within a larger programme.

Assessment Methods

Introduction to Academic Study Level 4 – 20 credits

Coursework 60%
Practical 40%
Written Exam 0%

Methods and Principles of Project Management level 4 – 20 credits

Coursework 60%
Practical 0%
Written Exam 40%

Project Team Dynamics level 4 – 20 credits

Coursework 100%
Practical 0%
Written Exam 0%

Project Environment level 4 – 20 credits

Coursework 60%
Practical 0%
Written Exam 40%

Managing Finance within Projects level 4 – 20 credits

Coursework 60%
Practical 0%
Written Exam 40%

Contemporary issues within Project Management level 5 – 20 credits

Coursework 100%
Practical 0%
Written Exam 0%

Organisational Strategy and Principles of Risk level 5 – 20 credits

Coursework 60%
Practical 0%
Written Exam 40%

Negotiation and Conflict Resolution level 5 – 20 credits

Coursework 50%
Practical 50%
Written Exam 0%

Legal Ethical and Professional Issues within Project Management level 5 – 20 credits

Coursework 60%
Practical 0%
Written Exam 40%

Major Project level 5 – 40 credits

Coursework 80%
Practical 20%
Written Exam 0%

Project Management Professional level 6 – 20 credits

Coursework 80%
Practical 20%
Written Exam 0%

Defining Projects for Success level 6 – 2o credits

Coursework 60%
Practical 0%
Written Exam 40%

Leadership of Teams level 6 – 20 credits

Coursework 60%
Practical 0%
Written Exam 40%

Complex Project Environment level 6 – 20 credits

Coursework 60%
Practical 0%
Written Exam 40%

Dissertation Work Project level 6 – 40 credits

Coursework 80%
Practical 20%
Written Exam 0%

Industry Placement and Field Trips

Expert Tutors

All staff involved in the delivery of any courses within the College are approved to teach and/or assess the subjects and modules they deliver. The approval process ensures that staff delivering and/or assessing a given programme are appropriately qualified, with relevant technical and industrial experience and professional practice.