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Stakeholder and communications management: How to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders to build and maintain their support for successful project outcomes. Knowledge of the main UK business sectors and the parameters within which they operate. The Business Environment: How projects contribute to businesses operating in local, regional, national and global economies. How to construct robust project business cases that demonstrate the benefits and value expected from project deliverables. How to manage project budgets and costs within appropriate financial frameworks and how to report project performance, tailoring reporting requirements to comply with governance norms in the business. Governance and Financial Control of Projects: How to evaluate and establish appropriate project governance through the incorporation of policies, regulations, processes, roles and structures in different project types and organisational structures, accepting that different sizes of organisation require different levels of control. Requirements: Knowledge, skills and behaviours (KSBs) Knowledge: A project manager will have knowledge and understanding of: Apprentices are also expected to have typically achieved Maths and English at Level 2 prior to starting the apprenticeship.
3 GCE “A” Levels at Grades A to C, or a vocational equivalent. Whilst entry requirements are a matter for individual employers, typically an apprentice might be expected to have achieved appropriate level 3 qualifications on entry e.g. This may require managing interdisciplinary teams within various organisational structures and across organisations. Increasingly, organisations employ project managers to improve processes or implement change to become more efficient and effective. Projects span public, private and third sectors in industries as diverse as banking, insurance, government, healthcare, retail and transport. They will have an understanding of the diversity of roles and challenges facing project professionals and an appreciation of tailoring needs, recognising the different contexts and technical requirements that exist in different industry sectors and/or organisation sizes. They will have management responsibilities, including resource budget planning, and may also hold people development accountabilities. These skills and behaviours require the project manager to be an effective leader of change, able to develop a group of direct, sub-contract, or temporarily aligned resources into a coherent team that delivers the project objectives.
They will have an appreciation of programme management techniques and an understanding of how projects are managed within a larger programme. 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. 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. 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. Using their unique knowledge, skills and leadership behaviours project managers will manage the social, legal and environmental implications of their project. 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. 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. Project manager (integrated degree) Reference Number: ST0411 Details of standard
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