Project Management

Looking to improve your career prospects, climb that elusive career ladder and explore a job that takes advantage of your natural planning skills? Our Project Management Level 3 course can provide you with the skills and the knowledge to take this step.

Exclusively designed for home study, this course can help you to explore the broad skillset required to become an effective Project Manager, as well as the principles of the role, your responsibilities and employer expectations.

More importantly, our Project Management Level 3 course can offer you the flexibility to study all of this from the comfort of your own home. There is no need to attend any classes as all of your course materials will be send straight to your home.

And this is great news if you are just stepping back into education or are restricted by work obligations, as you can mould this 80 hour course to fit around your existing work commitments and essentially study when, where and how you want.

From learning about the various stages of preparing, planning and budgeting, to learning how to manage resources and oversee implementation; by the end of this course you will know how to deliver a product – and its benefits – successfully, and make a credible difference to business productivity.

Course Benefits

Split into 6 detailed and informative units, this course is the perfect stepping stone for progressing your career and gaining real and transferrable skills. With every unit that you complete, you will be given the opportunity to demonstrate your competency and comprehension of the course materials, but more importantly will be able to test your newly acquired skills within a practical setting.

This course will:

Give you the freedom to study when, where and how you want, and at your own pace – all course materials will be sent to your home (by mail or by email) where you will be able to complete it when YOU are ready.

Help you to achieve a healthy work-study balance – taking on average 80 hours of study time to complete, we will give you a full year to submit your assignments.

Provide you with a full years’ worth of tutor support.

Challenge your perceptions of this career field, whilst working to enhance your natural organisational skills.

Help you to climb the career ladder.

Offer you a stress free and convenient way to study – no strict deadlines, no stress, no pressure…

Modules

Unit 1: Project Management: Definitions, Principles and Scope

Design an analogy or metaphor that encapsulates best practice in project Management

Roles and responsibilities of a Project Sponsor and a Project Manager

Common oversights and mistakes that can happen when a new project is being launched

Avoiding mistakes

Belbin’s Team Role Inventory

Unit 2: Project Initiation: Preparing the Ground

Implementing best practice in project initiation

Documentation

Purpose and scope of a project

Estimating the development of a project

Strategies and tactics to identify key stakeholder

Agreeing on a shared vision and project evaluation criteria

Tactical plan to achieve major deliverables within realistic timescales and in practical stages

Unit 3: Planning the Project

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Flow diagram which identifies dependencies

Realistic timescales and critical path

Schedule deliverables within achievable timescales

Producing a realistic budget plan and summary

Unit 4: Managing your Resources

Motivates your influences

How you are perceived by others

Ability to manage projects

The four stages of project team development

The skills to set realistic and motivating goals for project teams

Coping strategies to manage conflict

Unit 5: Due Diligence and Background Checks

Best practice in monitoring and reporting

Effective project team meetings

Creating an agreed project team culture

Developing a project team to achieve high performance

Unit 6: Delivering Benefits from a Project

Developing project team management skills

Rewarding high performance

Managing project hand-over successfully

Develop project evaluation strategies

How to leave a positive legacy

Assessment

This course is assessed using a series of written assignments that are designed to test your knowledge of the course syllabus. These assignments will need to be submitted to your personal tutor for marking, whereupon they will supply you with tips and feedback. No external examinations are required.

Awarding Body

At the end of this course successful learners will receive a Certificate of Achievement from ABC Awards and Certa Awards and a Learner Unit Summary (which lists the components the learner has completed as part of the course).

The course has been endorsed under the ABC Awards and Certa Awards Quality Licence Scheme. This means that OSC has undergone an external quality check to ensure that the organisation and the courses it offers, meet defined quality criteria. The completion of this course alone does not lead to a regulated qualification* but may be used as evidence of knowledge and skills gained. The Learner Unit Summary may be used as evidence towards Recognition of Prior Learning if you wish to progress your studies in this subject. To this end the learning outcomes of the course have been benchmarked at Level 3 against level descriptors published by Ofqual, to indicate the depth of study and level of demand/complexity involved in successful completion by the learner.

The course itself has been designed by OSC to meet specific learners’ and/or employers’ requirements which cannot be satisfied through current regulated qualifications.

ABC Awards & Certa Awards endorsement involves robust and rigorous quality audits by external auditors to ensure quality is continually met. A review of courses is carried out as part of the endorsement process.

ABC Awards and Certa Awards have long-established reputations for providing high quality vocational qualifications across a wide range of industries. ABC Awards and Certa Awards combine over 180 years of expertise combined with a responsive, flexible and innovative approach to the needs of our customers.

Renowned for excellent customer service, and quality standards, ABC Awards and Certa Awards also offer regulated qualifications for all ages and abilities post-14; all are developed with the support of relevant stakeholders to ensure that they meet the needs and standards of employers across the UK.

*Regulated qualification refers to those qualifications that are regulated by Ofqual / CCEA / Qualification Wales

Required Knowledge

No prior knowledge or experience is needed in order to enrol onto this course, making it ideal for those looking to progress their career and take their first tentative steps onto the career ladder.

Support

We may specialise in the provision of home study courses; however at no point on your learning journey do you have to feel alone in your studies. From day one you will receive the highest standard of customer support – from comprehensive study guides to the assistance of our personal tutors; helps is always at hand.

Our personal tutors are all experts in their field, meaning you can readily harness their knowledge, guidance and instruction and use it to progress your studies.

In turn, our student support team are always available to answer your questions and be a pillar of support. Just one click away… you’ll never have to wait long for an answer.