Project Manager Degree Apprentice

Summary

This is an exciting role within a fast paced FinTech environment, that will provide you with a breadth of experience and exposure within project management and the finance industry. The role requires someone that enjoys problem solving, likes a challenges, enthusiastic and a team player, who will share a pivotal part in the growth of the company.

Annual wage: £22,000 a year
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Training course: Project manager (integrated degree) (level 6)
Hours: Monday - Friday, 08:30 - 17:30.
40 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 1 September
Duration: 4 years
Positions available: 1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Years 1/2:

Support senior project managers in planning, executing, and closing projects
Assist in creating project documentation, including project plans, risk registers, and status reports
Help coordinate project meetings and maintain meeting minutes
Support budget monitoring and resource allocation
Assist in stakeholder communication and engagement
Collaborating with the development and test teams

Years 3/4:

Managing small projects independently
Contributing to larger project initiatives
Effective client management
Demonstrating professional competencies
Preparing for end-point assessment

Where you’ll work

1 Station Square

Cambridge

CB1 2GA

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION

Your training course

Project manager (integrated degree) (level 6)

Equal to degree

Course contents

Governance Frameworks: Lead and take responsibility for the project management plan as required by the governance structure. Apply techniques and project management methodologies as appropriate, dependent upon project complexity and criticality to the organisational environment in which a project is being delivered. Maintain, review and communicate a project business case for approval through the stages of a typical project lifecycle ensuring continued value for money and continued alignment with organisational objectives.
The Business Environment: Identify and analyse the context, opportunities and challenges presented by projects in a range of organisational settings, appreciating the differences within both large and small organisations and in different industry sectors and the consequent need for tailoring. Identify the operating constraints that apply to projects including ethical, legal and regulatory considerations. This may include the green economy and the impacts of strategies for achieving net carbon zero by 2050.
Stakeholder and communications management: Lead and take responsibility for the identification and analysis of internal and external stakeholders and their impact on the project. Manage an effective project communication plan across stakeholders with different cultural and physical barriers. Analyse information and communicate with stakeholders incorporating elements of feedback to understand and measure the effectiveness of planned communications. Effectively listen and influence others through negotiation and persuasion.
Control of projects in terms of time, cost and quality: Manage the project within the constraints of time, cost and quality. Control expenditure and produce status reports as required, including control of costs against budgets, forecasting, and establishing performance indicators as required by funding sources. Measure progress and actual costs against plans to determine a full understanding of project performance. Identify, achieve and maintain quality standards appropriate to the context and specific requirements of project activities.
Risk Management: Ensure that project risks, opportunities and issues are addressed using quantitative and qualitative methods to categorise risks and their impacts. Identify, evaluate and implement appropriate mitigation strategies, ensuring that mitigation actions are incorporated into the project plan and are implemented should they develop into issues. Manage risk through the regular review of a risk management plan, adopting appropriate strategies to manage both threats and opportunities.
Commercial and Contract management: Maintain and evaluate different commercial contract and procurement types to select appropriate options for specific programmes and projects. Support effective contract management and the achievement of programme and project outcomes.
Project Change Control: Dependent upon the size and complexity of a project, define and apply a recognised process to manage change in projects. Make effective decisions in the interests of a range of stakeholders with regards to change requests. Handle change within different project management methodologies.
Schedule Management: Evaluate requirements and methods for data capture and analysis in a project environment. Evaluate project schedule integrity including identification and resolution of scheduling problems. Apply resource acquisition and management techniques to balance programme and project needs against resource demand. Negotiate the allocation and scheduling of internal and external resources to meet programme and project demands.

Your training plan

BSc (Hons) in Project Management
Delivered with a mixture of online learning and 16 scheduled face-to-face workshops per year delivered either on Anglia Ruskin University campus or at specially selected hotel and conference facilities

More training information

Within the organisation:

Shadow experienced project managers
Develop understanding of project management methodologies (Agile and Waterfall)
Build expertise in project management tools and software
Exposure and experience in client management
Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives
Participate in relevant training and development activities

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

5 Subjects Inc English and Maths (grade C/4 or above)

Desirable qualifications

A Level in:

Any 3 Subjects (grade 96 UCAS Points (CCC))

BTEC in:

Any (grade 96 UCAS Points (MMM))

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
IT skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Administrative skills
Team working
Initiative

Other requirements

TO APPLY: Please send a CV and Cover Letter to claire.elliott@fignum.com. If your application is successful, the recruitment process will entail an initial interview via Teams/Google Meet and if successful, you will be invited in for a face to face interview.

About this company

At Fignum we are embarking on an exciting journey to offer market leading, cloud-based software built with leading-edge thinking and technology. We have deep and long-standing roots in financial services formed out of the Bluestone Financial group. Now we are accelerating our drive to provide our loan origination, loan servicing and collections technology to a wider audience. To do that we want to hire the best talent to join Fignum’s growing team, developing new ways to deliver cutting-edge technology solutions using our vast collective industry experience.

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After this apprenticeship

Upon successful completion of the apprenticeship:

Opportunity to progress to Junior Project Manager role
Professional membership of relevant bodies (e.g. APM)
Clear pathway to further career development
Option to pursue additional professional qualifications

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION

Claire Elliott

claire.elliott@fignum.com

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000292787.

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Closes on Friday 28 February

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Company’s application instructions

TO APPLY: Please email a CV and Cover Letter to claire.elliott@fignum.com.

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