Project Manger Apprentice (FCA)
Financial Conduct Authority
London (E20 1JN)
Closes in 24 days (Monday 20 April 2026)
Posted on 25 March 2026
Contents
Summary
The Project Manager Apprenticeship programme at the FCA is designed to prepare you for a career in our Change Directorate. You will be working towards a role as a project manager or a role in the broader project team.
- Wage
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£25,700 a year
- Training course
- Associate project manager (level 4)
- Hours
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Full-time. Shifts to be confirmed.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 7 September 2026
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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2
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
Support Project Communications:
Contribute to creating and maintaining project communication plans, ensuring messaging is appropriate for different stakeholders and overcoming cultural or physical communication barriers
Assist with Project Leadership Activities:
Help reinforce the project’s vision, values, and objectives across the team. Contribute to applying effective leadership styles and motivation techniques to support positive team performance and a high‑quality working environment
Contribute to Consolidated Project Planning:
Assist in developing and maintaining consolidated project plans that integrate scope, schedule, resources, budget, risks, and quality requirements, while incorporating lessons learned from previous work
Support Budgeting and Cost Control:
Help prepare cost estimates, monitor direct and indirect project costs, and track actuals, accruals, and committed spend. Assist in producing cost breakdowns and supporting performance reporting
Assist in Business Case and Benefits Management:
Support the preparation, review, and maintenance of business cases, including the identification, tracking, and realisation of project benefits
Support Project Scope Management:
Assist with requirements gathering, evaluating delivery methods, managing scope changes, and applying baseline and configuration control procedures
Help Coordinate Resource Management:
Contribute to analysing resource needs, supporting resource allocation, and ensuring resource acceptance aligns with project requirements
Support Risk and Issue Management:
Help implement risk management plans, support the identification and prioritisation of risks and opportunities, and assist in planning mitigation or optimisation actions
Assist with Contract Management and Procurement:
Gain understanding of contractual requirements and support the management of contracts and procurement processes, ensuring contractual obligations are clear and well‑managed
Support Project Quality Management:
Assist in applying quality management processes, monitoring quality standards, contributing to quality assurance activities, and supporting continuous improvement efforts
Where you'll work
12 Endeavour Square
Stratford
London
E20 1JN
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION 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
Associate Project Manager Level 4.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
A Level in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Team working
- Motivated
- Able to analyse data
Other requirements
Submit your online application by midnight, Sunday 19th April 2026.
About this employer
There are few jobs where you can make a real difference to the 2 million people who work in the UK Financial Services industry, the 40 million consumers of financial products and the stability of our economy as a whole.
From regulating Consumer Credit to driving action on Foreign Exchange manipulation or helping strengthen accountability in the banking sector, the FCA is working with the industry to protect consumers, ensure the integrity of the UK financial system and promote fair and effective competition. Our remit has expanded significantly since our creation in 2013, with the number of firms we regulate growing from 23,000 to nearly 60,000. We oversee conduct across the full span of the financial sector from global investment banks to high street payday lenders, and are now preparing to implement a new strategy that will sharpen our focus to face the regulatory challenges ahead.
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
Any career progression routes will be discussed upon successful completion of the apprenticeship.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000023188.
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Closes in 24 days (Monday 20 April 2026)
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