Project Assistant Apprentice
Unity Online
Ipswich (IP6 8NU)
Closes in 22 days (Friday 11 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 18 June 2025
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Summary
You'll play a vital role in supporting the successful delivery of website and marketing projects from start to finish. This is a varied and hands-on position that provides exposure to every stage of the project lifecycle, including client communication, task coordination, content management, and quality control.
- Wage
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£13,741 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Associate project manager (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 21 July 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Working under the guidance of experienced team members, you will contribute to the smooth execution of client projects while gaining valuable insight into the inner workings of a busy digital agency
- Monitor and manage the shared development mailbox, flagging key messages and summarising actions for Project Managers
- Answer incoming phone calls professionally and assign appropriately
- Check calendar daily for upcoming client meetings and prepare relevant materials or reminders
- Track and update project tasks and timelines using systems
- Record and monitor team time entries to support time management and budgeting
- Maintain and update client and project records
- Compile regular project updates and progress reports for Project Managers
- Highlight pending actions or project blockers with clear summaries for escalation
- Assist with basic website content updates and quality checks in WordPress
- Take meeting notes, track action items, and follow up to ensure completion
- Support Project Managers with day-to-day administrative and coordination tasks
Where you'll work
Unit 2, Chesters
Coddenham Road, Needham Market
Ipswich
IP6 8NU
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
W S TRAINING LTD.
Your training course
Associate project manager (level 4)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Use project monitoring and reporting techniques to track, interpret and report on performance.
- Manage and engage with stakeholders.
- Influence and negotiate with others to create a positive outcome for the project.
- Resolve conflict as and when required with stakeholders within limits of responsibility.
- Adapt communications to different stakeholders.
- Communicate and support the project vision, to ensure buy in to the project objectives.
- Collate and analyse information and provide input to support negotiations relating to project objectives.
- Monitor and analyse project budgets.
- Review and provide feedback on a project business case to ensure the project remains valid.
- Apply change control processes to support the management of project scope.
- Evaluate an integrated project management plan to provide recommendations on areas for improvement.
- Prepare, monitor, and schedule activities that contribute to the delivery of the overall project schedule and objectives.
- Evaluate and make recommendations on the risk management plan to threats to delivery and recommend solutions.
- Identify and monitor project risks and issues; and plan and implement responses to them.
- Deliver a Quality Management Plan which contributes to quality control processes.
- Use an organisation’s continual improvement process including lessons learned to improve performance.
- Support the preparation or maintenance of a resource management plan for project activities.
- Work with stakeholders to deliver the project.
- Use digital tools and software to meet project objectives for example research, collaboration, presentations, and resolution of problems.
- Provide underpinning data to support the written submission through the governance process.
- Work within the approved project budget.
- Ensure that integrated schedules support critical path analysis, interface management, resource forecasting and risk management.
- Apply relevant legislation, regulations, codes of practice, and ethical guidance where appropriate to their work.
- Use data to inform decisions on actions to take to mitigate risks on project.
- Use configuration management and change control to schedule and maintain projects.
- Manages resources through the project lifecycle.
- Use project monitoring and reporting techniques to track, interpret and report on performance.
- Manage and engage with stakeholders.
- Influence and negotiate with others to create a positive outcome for the project.
- Resolve conflict as and when required with stakeholders within limits of responsibility.
- Adapt communications to different stakeholders.
- Communicate and support the project vision, to ensure buy in to the project objectives.
- Collate and analyse information and provide input to support negotiations relating to project objectives.
- Monitor and analyse project budgets.
- Review and provide feedback on a project business case to ensure the project remains valid.
- Apply change control processes to support the management of project scope.
- Evaluate an integrated project management plan to provide recommendations on areas for improvement.
- Prepare, monitor, and schedule activities that contribute to the delivery of the overall project schedule and objectives.
- Evaluate and make recommendations on the risk management plan to threats to delivery and recommend solutions.
- Identify and monitor project risks and issues; and plan and implement responses to them.
- Deliver a Quality Management Plan which contributes to quality control processes.
- Use an organisation’s continual improvement process including lessons learned to improve performance.
- Support the preparation or maintenance of a resource management plan for project activities.
- Work with stakeholders to deliver the project.
- Use digital tools and software to meet project objectives for example research, collaboration, presentations, and resolution of problems.
- Provide underpinning data to support the written submission through the governance process.
- Work within the approved project budget.
- Ensure that integrated schedules support critical path analysis, interface management, resource forecasting and risk management.
- Apply relevant legislation, regulations, codes of practice, and ethical guidance where appropriate to their work.
- Use data to inform decisions on actions to take to mitigate risks on project.
- Use configuration management and change control to schedule and maintain projects.
- Manages resources through the project lifecycle.
Your training plan
Associate Project Manager Level 4 (Higher national certificate) Apprenticeship Standard
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Maths and English (grade 4)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
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Analytical skills
- Team working
- Initiative
About this company
At Unity Online, we are a full- service marketing and website agency and exist to help businesses of all shapes and sizes achieve real success online. Our specialist team of in-house digital project managers, designers and developers work closely with our clients to understand what’s best for their organisation in order to achieve their commercial objectives through online marketing.
Company benefits
Holiday Package: 20 days holiday + 5 long weekend days, with an additional day per year of service. Wellness: PureGym membership and private health insurance with no excess. Work Culture: Enjoy regular social and awards events throughout the year.
After this apprenticeship
- Potential to stay on as a permenant member of staff after the apprenticeship completion
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
W S TRAINING LTD.
The Apprenticeship Team
apprenticeships@wstraining.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000326722.
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Closes in 22 days (Friday 11 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
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