Apprenticeship Β· earn while you train Β· live UK standard from the careers engine
Apprenticeship

Associate project manager

Level
4
Higher
Length
1.5 yr
typical
Sector
Business and administration
Pay
Paid
you earn while training

In a nutshell

Managing project work and teams for businesses and other organisations.

What you'd do

Maintain and update project plans, logs, and status reports
Track project milestones and flag slippage to the project manager
Maintain the risk and issue register and chase owners for updates
Organise and minute project meetings and distribute actions
Liaise with stakeholders to gather updates and resolve minor issues
Monitor project budgets and report variances to the project manager
Support the preparation of project highlight reports and board papers

What you'd learn

Project management methodologies including PRINCE2 and agile approaches
Project planning techniques including work breakdown structures and Gantt charts
Risk and issue identification, logging, and escalation
Budget monitoring and cost management in a project context
Stakeholder engagement and communication planning
Quality management and assurance processes in project delivery
Project management tools such as MS Project or equivalent software
Ready to look for a place?
See live Associate project manager apprenticeship vacancies on the official government service.
Find vacancies
A Careermash concept Β· apprenticeship standard from our careers engine Β· vacancies via gov.uk.

Career data: role, pay and progression profiles built for Careermash's careers engine; AI-impact estimates from Anthropic's observed AI-usage telemetry and OpenAI's AI Jobs Transition Framework. Course data: HESA / Discover Uni, including Graduate Outcomes, LEO and the National Student Survey. Apprenticeships: IfATE-published standards, approved only.

Β© 2026 Careermash. A concept for secondary schools.