Project Management Coordinator Apprentice (Scott Logic Limited)
SCOTT LOGIC LTD
Newcastle Upon Tyne (NE4 5BZ)
Closes in 18 days (Friday 28 August 2026)
Posted on 3 August 2026
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Summary
As a PMO Coordinator, you'll help keep a complex client account running smoothly by supporting the planning, coordination and governance activities that underpin successful delivery.
- Wage
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£28,000 a year
- Training course
- Associate project manager (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday.
Shifts to be confirmed.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 7 September 2026
- 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
Security, Compliance and access management
- Maintain accurate records of team members’ access, onboarding status, and required checks (e.g. BPSS), ensuring information is current and reliable.
- Monitor upcoming expiries or gaps in access or compliance and flag these to the PMO team in a timely way.
- Support joiner, mover and leaver processes, ensuring access is requested, updated or removed in line with role changes.
- Work with internal teams (e.g. HR,IT) to follow through on access-related actions and keep records aligned.
- Develop an understanding of security and compliance expectations in a client environment and apply these consistently.
Onboarding and mobilisation:
- Coordinate key steps in the onboarding process, ensuring new joiners have the right equipment, system access, and information ahead of their start date.
- Maintain onboarding trackers and checklists, keeping status up to date and visible to the wider team.
- Proactively follow up on outstanding onboarding actions (e.g. access requests, equipment delivery) to avoid delays.
- Support a consistent onboarding experience by applying standard processes and identifying areas for improvement.
Onsite support:
- Be on site regularly to support the account team.
- Welcome new joiners and visitors, including collecting from reception and escorting on site where required.
- Support practical on-site needs that help the team operate smoothly and professionally.
- Coordinate building access, passes and site onboarding with the client’s site management or facilities teams.
- Maintain an up-to-date view of who has access to which locations and resolve access issues quickly to avoid delivery disruption.
Delivery Governance:
- Maintain and update governance artefacts (e.g. internal RAID logs, trackers, milestone views), ensuring they are accurate, structured and easy to use.
- Gather updates from delivery teams and reflect these clearly in governance materials.
- Track risks, issues, actions and dependencies, ensuring they are visible and followed up.
- Support the preparation of governance packs and meeting materials, ensuring information is clear and complete.
- Identify gaps, inconsistencies or outdated information and take action to resolve them.
Account Management Support:
- Track staffing movements (joiners, leavers, role changes), ensuring records reflect the current view of the account.
- Support coordination of meetings (internal and client), including scheduling, materials, and action tracking.
- Maintain action logs, ensuring ownership is clear and follow-ups are captured and progressed.
- Help ensure key information (e.g.trackers, documents) is organised, accessible, and easy to navigate.
- Help ensure the right internal documentation is in place, including purchase orders, statements of work and related approvals.
- Begin to spot patterns or recurring issues (e.g. onboarding delays, recurring access gaps) and raise these with the PMO team.
- Work with internal teams to improve processes over time, reducing manual effort and delivery risk.
- Contribute ideas to improve ways of working, based on day-to-day experience of processes.
- Support the Delivery Principal and Account Lead in preparing for client meetings, including coordination of materials, logistics and actions.
- Support and coordinate the implementation of social value initiatives in line with contractual commitments.
Where you'll work
The Lumen
St. James Boulevard, Newcastle Helix
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE4 5BZ
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
BPP apprenticeship training programmes are delivered virtually by our fully qualified and industry-experienced training team. Using their expert knowledge, we’ve purposefully built our programmes around the real-world use of modern technology, so that the skills we create can be directly applied in the workplace.
Throughout the apprenticeship learners receive coaching, help and guidance from a dedicated team who are there to ensure they get the most from their work experience.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
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
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Analytical skills
- Team working
- Written communication skills
- Management skills
- Manage multiple tasks
- Manage deadlines
- Able to work independently
Other requirements
Experience:
- Some experience working in a team, project or customer-facing environment (e.g. part-time work, placement, volunteering).
- Exposure to coordinating tasks, organising activities or supporting others to get things done.
Behaviours:
- Comfortable asking questions and seeking clarification when unsure.
- Shows initiative in picking up tasks and suggesting improvements.
- Able to manage time and prioritise tasks with support.
Skills:
- Ability to manage personal security requirements (e.g. BPSS, SC processes), ensuring accuracy and audit readiness; tracking access rights and able to interpret security risks and escalate appropriately.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret project data and produce clear, actionable insights
- High level of attention to detail and accuracy.
- Confident user of project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Planner, Jira, Trello) and MS Office (especially Excel and PowerPoint).
- Ability to work proactively and independently, as well as collaboratively within a team.
About this employer
Scott Logic is a UK-based technology consultancy that helps organisations solve complex business problems through thoughtful, high-quality software delivery. We work in collaborative teams to design and build robust, scalable solutions across industries, from finance and healthcare to energy and the public sector.
Scott Logic has spent the last two decades helping clients to engineer innovative, bespoke software solutions that drive measurable value. Now, with the help of AI, we can help you do it even faster, without compromising on quality or safety. With six offices across the UK, our expert consultants have collaborated with some of the world's biggest enterprises, providing a pragmatic approach to software development and delivering measurable value through insightful technology advice.
After this apprenticeship
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Possible future opportunities with the company however this role is a fixed term contract (18 months)
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000045803.
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Closes in 18 days (Friday 28 August 2026)
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