Associate Project Manager

Associate project managers are key to enabling organisations meet their business goals by successful project delivery. Projects can be large or small and deliver a required product that either creates something new or improves efficiency and effectiveness, such as designing and constructing a new motorway or implementing a new IT system. Projects are diverse in nature and could involve anything from banking through to construction. Many organisations deliver their own projects, using in-house associate project managers to work on scope they might be already familiar with. Some associate project manager’s work on a contract basis or for specialist organisations that deliver outsourced project work on behalf of clients.

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Skills - Provide underpinning data to support the written submission to the taken through the governance process.
Apply relevant legislation, regulations, codes of practice, and ethical guidance where appropriate to their work:

Knowledge - The need and benefit of the project governance structure, requirements, and process and the impact on their role.
The differences and comparative benefits between functional, matrix and project structures.
Different roles and responsibilities within a project environment.
The impact of project objectives and how to respond to challenges around sustainability and the UK Government’s policy to achieve net carbon zero.
Principles of conducting project management activities which are ethical and inclusive:

Skills - 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.
Use data to inform decisions on actions to take to mitigate risks on project:

Knowledge - Principles of project risk and issue management:

Skills - 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.

Work with stakeholders to deliver the project:

Knowledge - The identification, analysis, and management of stakeholders.
Communication techniques and approaches to interact with stakeholders to meet their requirements.
Techniques for managing conflict and negotiation. Techniques for working collaboratively within a team and with stakeholders:

Skills - 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.
Manages resources through the project lifecycle:

Knowledge - Allocation and management of resources throughout the project life cycle.
The role and purpose of quality requirements, planning and control in a project environment.
Principles for evaluating project success, including how lessons learned are captured and can impact future project delivery.
Relevant regulations and legislation such as data protection, and how they impact on their role:

Skills - Monitor and analyse project budgets.
Work within the approved project budget:

Knowledge - Procurement strategies and processes that are both ethical and sustainable:

Skills - Use digital tools and software to meet project objectives for example research, collaboration, presentations, and resolution of problems:

Knowledge - The use of information management
Technology and software used in the performance of project management activities.
Presentation tools and techniques:

Skills - Use project monitoring and reporting techniques to track, interpret and report on performance.
Review and provide feedback on a project business case to ensure the project remains
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.
Ensure that integrated schedules support critical path analysis, interface management, resource forecasting and risk management:

Knowledge - The differences and comparative benefits between linear, iterative and hybrid life cycle approaches.

Importance, content, and purpose of a business case.
Approaches to the maintenance of a business case and the management of the benefits which will be achieved upon the successful delivery of the project.

The purpose, format, and significance of the project management plan.
How and when to apply different estimating methods.
The principles of earned value management (EVM) and the interpretation of EVM information.

Project scheduling and maintenance, including critical path analysis:

Skills - Apply change control processes to support the management of project scope
Use configuration management and change control to schedule and maintain projects:

Knowledge - The differences between projects and business as usual.
The importance of alignment between the project and organisational objectives.
The interdependencies between project, programme, and portfolio management.
Techniques used to understand the project context
Methods used to define, record, integrate, deliver, and manage scope.
Configuration management and change control:

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At the planning meeting with your coach, your line manager will be asked to confirm it is correct and /or identify further areas of development.