Project Management Apprentice
Westminster City Council
London (SW1E 6QP)
Closes in 9 days (Sunday 15 February 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 29 January 2026
Contents
Summary
You’ll play a key role in supporting projects, improving processes and strengthening quality assurance to help deliver effective, resident‑focused services. This is a great opportunity to gain hands‑on experience in a dynamic team while contributing to work that makes a real impact in Westminster.
- Wage
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£28,260 a year
- Training course
- Associate project manager (level 4)
- Hours
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Typically, 9:00am-5:00pm, Monday to Friday. While hybrid working is available, we encourage apprentices to spend plenty of time working in person. Your schedule will be structured and supportive.
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 25 March 2026
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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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
The Employment & Skills Hub supports Westminster’s mission to build a fairer, more sustainable and inclusive economy for our community, ensuring that residents can access the skills, training and job opportunities they need to thrive.
Our work responds directly to local challenges, including areas where more than 25% of residents have no formal qualifications and higher-than-average unemployment rates.
During the apprenticeship, the Associate Project Manager is likely to work across a varied and practical portfolio, including:
- Supporting the planning and delivery of cross-cutting projects across Employment and Skills, Social Value and S106
- Carrying out research and analysis to inform priorities, options and business cases
- Contributing to Project Initiation Documents, delivery plans, risk logs and benefits tracking
- Coordinating activity across Economy and Skills teams
- Supporting stakeholder engagement, including partners, providers and internal teams
- Helping to improve processes and systems that underpin monitoring and reporting
- Tracking progress against milestones and outcomes and producing clear updates
- Supporting events, workshops and engagement activity linked to economic development priorities
- Capturing lessons learnt and feeding them into continuous improvement
- Embedding inclusion, sustainability and social value considerations into project activity
Where you'll work
Westminster City Hall
64 Victoria Street
London
SW1E 6QP
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BLUE SKY ASSESSING & CONSULTANCY LTD
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
The apprentice will work across the directorate, supporting different teams while actively applying the skills they learn through the apprenticeship standard. As part of the programme, 20% of their working hours will be dedicated to off-the-job learning, ensuring they have protected time to study, develop and build confidence.
We will make sure the successful candidate experiences all key areas of the apprenticeship, giving them the opportunity to practise their new skills in real situations and gain meaningful, hands-on experience across the service.
More training information
Diverse Futures will work closely with you to complete your Project Management Apprenticeship. This 18-month programme is delivered online. You’ll receive dedicated support from their expert coaches/ trainers, ensuring you stay on track with your learning and meet all deadlines.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
A Level in:
BTEC 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
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Analytical skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Curiosity
Other requirements
Right to Work.
About this employer
Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster.
Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.
At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties
As a forward thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.
The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application , we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.
Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.
We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.
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Company benefits
- Pension
- Active Westminster
- Car benefit scheme
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Buying additional annual leave
- Birthday Leave
- Paid volunteering hours
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
Potentially full-time employment.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BLUE SKY ASSESSING & CONSULTANCY LTD
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000011376.
Apply now
Closes in 9 days (Sunday 15 February 2026 at 11:59pm)