IT Project Manager Apprenticeship - 2 Year Fixed Term
NORTHERN TRAINS LTD
York (YO1 6JT)
Closes in 14 days (Thursday 7 August 2025)
Posted on 22 July 2025
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Summary
As the Apprentice IT Project Manager, you’ll get hands-on with digital projects that keep essential services running smoothly. You’ll join a growing team, helping to manage resources, support timelines, track progress, and flag issues before they grow, while you build the skills & experience to shape a long-term future in digital project delivery.
- Wage
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£25,889 a year
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Salary is paid 4 weekly.
- Training course
- Associate project manager (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 8 September 2025
- Duration
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2 years
- 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
- Helping plan, run and track IT projects, making sure they stay on course
- Supporting the management of resources, budgets and timelines.
- Keeping an eye on scope and progress – and helping to flag risks before they become issues
- Assisting with clear, timely communication across teams and stakeholders
- Balancing your time between hands-on work and one day a week dedicated to your studies
Where you'll work
George Stephenson House
Toft Green
York
YO1 6JT
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
QA LIMITED
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.
Training schedule
More training information
- As part of this Level 4 Associate Project Manager Apprenticeship, you’ll gain a Prince2 Foundation qualification, learn on the job, and be supported every step of the way
- You’ll have regular one-to-one sessions with experienced managers, take part in workshops, get helpful feedback, and have access to all the templates and tools our project managers use day to day
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
All successful offers will be subject to a DBS check and a medical assessment.
About this employer
We’re more than just a train operator. We’re the heartbeat of the North - connecting communities, creating opportunities, and driving sustainable growth. With 2,500 trains running daily, we’re on a mission to improve rail travel and enhance the customer experience while protecting the environment. Back in 1825, the first passenger train set off in the North of England, after which rail quickly spread across the globe - and this year, we’re celebrating 200 years of the modern railway. As we look back on the historic events that led us here, we also look towards the future as we move into the era of Great British Rail. Join us at this pivotal moment in rail history and play your part in our journey.
http://northernrailway.co.uk/careers (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
Free Travel on Northern Trains. Exclusive Discounts - From shopping, gym memberships to wellbeing. Employee Assistance Programme - 24/7 support for family, lifestyle, and more. Training & Career Development
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
- Starting as an Apprentice IT Project Manager can lead to a wide range of career paths within tech and the wider rail industry. You’ll gain real-world experience supporting digital projects that help keep everything running behind the scenes – and develop valuable skills that open doors beyond the apprenticeship
- Many apprentices stay with us and move into permanent roles. You might continue in project management or discover new areas of interest as you grow
Possible next steps include:
- IT Project Coordinator – supporting the delivery of larger, more complex projects
- Junior Project Manager – managing small-scale projects or workstreams independently
- Business Analyst – helping translate business needs into digital solutions
- Change Analyst – supporting teams through system and process changes
- Product Owner – working with users and developers to shape how digital tools evolve
- Digital Delivery Manager – leading full project lifecycles across departments
- IT Portfolio Assistant – helping track and prioritise multiple projects across a programme
- Data Analyst – using project and business data to improve decisions
- Innovation roles – supporting the rollout of new systems, tools, and tech
Whatever path you take, you’ll be part of a business that values learning, development and internal progression. This apprenticeship gives you more than just a first step – it gives you the foundation to build a meaningful career in digital delivery.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
QA LIMITED
Recruitment@northernrailway.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000333186.
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Closes in 14 days (Thursday 7 August 2025)
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