Project Management Apprenticeship
COMPUTACENTER (UK) LIMITED
Hertfordshire (AL10 9TW)
Closes on Wednesday 20 May 2026
Posted on 20 March 2026
Contents
Summary
Looking to start a career where no two days are the same and you can help deliver meaningful change across a global business? At Computacenter, we connect people and technology to shape the future. You’ll join the Group Information Services (GIS) Delivery team, supporting the delivery of projects across Computacenter and GIS worldwide.
- Wage
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£22,000 a year
- Training course
- Associate project manager (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 5:30pm.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 7 September 2026
- Duration
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1 year 11 months
- 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
You’ll work towards your Project Management Level 4 (Associate Project Manager) qualification while gaining real world experience. Around 80% of your time will be spent on the job, with 20% dedicated to learning.
Here’s what you’ll get involved in:
- Supporting Project Managers with planning and monitoring projects to ensure milestones and deadlines are met
Creating and maintaining project documentation, plans, and reports - Liaising with internal teams to assign tasks and support schedule management
- Monitoring project risks, opportunities, working hours, and expenditure
- Supporting issue management by helping identify problems and take appropriate corrective actions
- Acting as a key point of contact for project stakeholders and sharing relevant communications
- Assisting with project financial management, including forecasting, monitoring, and tracking costs
- Supporting quality assurance activities to ensure standards and requirements are met
- Supporting the Portfolio Management team with organising and running project portfolios
- Progressing to opportunities to lead workstreams and smaller initiatives
Where you'll work
Computacenter
Hatfield Avenue
Hatfield
Hertfordshire
AL10 9TW
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
REALISE LEARNING AND EMPLOYMENT 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
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4/C)
- Maths (grade 4/C)
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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
Other requirements
Please note that for successful applicants, offers will be conditional on passing additional eligibility checks with our training provider. These checks include a Maths and English assessment and a review of any previous qualifications you hold.
Due to apprenticeship funding requirements, applicants must not already hold a Level 4 qualification in Project Management or an equivalent qualification.
About this employer
Computacenter is a leading independent technology and services provider, trusted by large corporate and public sector organisations. We are a responsible business that believes in winning together for our people and our planet. We build unrivalled value for our customers over the long-term, helping them to achieve their goals. It’s one of the reasons that we’re trusted by some of the world’s greatest organisations. Interested in joining a company with a strong sense of community? We’re growing. We’re hiring. We encourage. We empower. We support. #CCEarlycareers
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
If you work hard and push yourself in work and on the programme then there is every chance of securing a fantastic role at the end of the apprenticeship, there are lots of progression opportunities.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
REALISE LEARNING AND EMPLOYMENT LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000022394.
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Closes on Wednesday 20 May 2026
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