Trainee Project Manager Apprenticeship

Job Title: Trainee Project Manager Apprenticeship

Location: Leeds

Assessment Centre Dates: June

Salary From: £28,800

interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future.

We’ve been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We’ve seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We’re now the UK’s number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 500,000 customers.

For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs.

We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights.

Purpose of the role:

The Trainee Project Manager role is responsible for supporting the core areas of Change Management: Project Management Office (PMO) and Project Management. You will work within a supportive team and get involved in a range of different tasks such as supporting small, localised projects (or specific small projects within programmes or larger projects).

Key responsibilities/what you’ll do:

• Following a defined development path for Change Management – Including PMO and Project Management.
• Responsible for the delivery of small projects and initiatives with appropriate support.
• Learn how to and then facilitate the definition of project scope, goals, deliverables and success criteria.
• Deliver initiative/project outcomes to meet the defined success criteria.
• Follow processes to ensure documentation, reports and plans are relevant, appropriate to the complexity, accurate updated and complete.
• Control project scope and any changes using change management processes.
• Ensure project budgets are tracked and managed and that any identified deviations are escalated.
• Monitor progress against agreed milestones and provide regular updates to all stakeholders.
• Management of risks ensuring that each risk has an owner, clearly defined impact, and mitigating actions.
• Appropriate escalation of risks and issues to mentor, sponsor and stakeholders.
• Building relationships with stakeholders and brokering relationships with peers and line managers.

About the apprenticeship:

As a Trainee Project Manager, you will develop the technical knowledge plus the professional skills and behaviours to work within our exciting and fast-paced Change team, gaining valuable work experience plus achieving a qualification through a structured apprenticeship programme to kick-start your career.

Through the level 4 Associate Project Manager apprenticeship, you will learn and grow technical knowledge in the following areas:

• Project management fundamentals such as scheduling, budgeting, and cost control.
• Business case and benefits, planning and scope, and quality.
• Resources and procurement.
• Risks and issues.
• Stakeholder communication, leadership, and teamwork.
• Governance and methodologies.

By the end of the apprenticeship, you will achieve your Level 4 Associate Project Manager apprenticeship. Typically, the apprenticeship will take around 18 months to complete.