Apprentice Project Manager
Please note this role is only open to Barking & Dagenham residents. The Apprentice Project Manager of Business & Transformation will support the team with the delivery of enterprise-wide transformation programmes that directly support the organisation’s long-term strategic goals. These include digital modernisation etc.
Role
Job Purpose
- Support Delivery: Assist experienced project managers in delivering projects from inception to handover, across all transformation
- Methodology Application: Apply formal PM methodology to initiate and execute projects
- Administrative Coordination: Manage project documentation, diaries and meeting logistics
Key Responsibilities and Duties
- Project Documentation: Prepare and maintain key project document, such as project plans, risk logs, and issue logs to high standards
- Risk and Issue Management: Assist in identifying, monitoring, and managing risks to project delivery, proposing solutions, and updating risk registers
- Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate with internal and external stakeholders, including conducting meetings and coordinating with teams across the organisation
- Resource and Schedule Management: Monitor project schedules, track progress against milestones, and assist with resource planning
- Governance and Reporting: Support project governance arrangements by drafting progress reports for senior management and attending project board meetings
- Budgeting: Assist with monitoring expenditure and tracking project spend against budgets
Training
- This apprenticeship is delivered as a day release at our site in Stratford, E15
- You will be required to attend college once a week
- Level 4 Associate Project Manager
- Behaviour, Skills and Knowledge
After successfully completing the apprenticeship, there may be an opportunity to secure a permanent role.
- Apprenticeship Standard
- Associate project manager (level 4)
- Training Provider
- NEWHAM COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION
- Working Week
- Monday to Friday, 8.00am - 4.00pm.
- Expected Duration
- 1 Year 6 Months
- Positions Available
- 1
- Closing Date
- Wednesday, 29th July 2026
- Start Date
- Sunday, 20th September 2026
Desired Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
Qualifications
- 5 Subjects GCSE, grade 4/C (Essential)
- English GCSE, grade 4/C (Essential)
- Mathematics GCSE, grade 4/C (Essential)
About the Employer
BARKING & DAGENHAM TRADING PARTNERSHIP LTD
We are a property and facilities services group that serves our communities by providing healthy catering for schools, cleaning services and responsive home repairs and maintenance, while creating opportunities for local people to live, work, and grow for a fulfilling future.