Trainee Project Manager Apprenticeship
Interactive Investor, United Kingdom
Job Description
WHO WE ARE:
interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future.
We’ve been helping investors for over 25 years. We’ve seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We’re now the UK’s number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching 55 billion and over 400,000 customers.
For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs, and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 40,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs.
We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights.
WHAT WE STAND FOR:
It’s simple we want our customers to feel confident and in control, for interactive investor to go from strength to strength, and for ii to be a workplace where we can all thrive. Our customer-driven approach and bold values sit at the heart of this. We are honest, straight-talking, and transparent with our customers and our colleagues. We are decisive and take ownership of what we say and deliver. We are ambitious and passionate about what we believe is right for our customers, our teams, ourselves, and interactive investor.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
The Trainee Project Manager role is responsible for supporting the three core areas of Change Management: Project Management Office (PMO), Release Management (managing the planning, scheduling, testing, and deployment of software releases) and Project Management. You will work within a supportive team and get involved in a range of different tasks such as coordinating and managing small releases, and supporting small, localised projects (or specific small projects within programmes or larger projects).
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES/WHAT YOU’LL DO:
- Following a defined development path for Change Management Including PMO, Release Management and Project Management
- Responsible for the delivery of small projects, initiatives or releases with appropriate support
- Learn how to and then facilitate the definition of project scope, goals, deliverables and success criteria
- Deliver initiative/project outcomes to meet the defined success criteria
- Follow processes to ensure documentation, reports and plans are relevant, appropriate to the complexity, accurate updated and complete
- Control project scope and any changes using change management processes
- Ensure project budgets are tracked and managed and that any identified deviations are escalated
- Monitor progress against agreed milestones and provide regular updates to all stakeholders
- Management of risks ensuring that each risk has an owner, clearly defined impact, and mitigating actions
- Appropriate escalation of risks and issues to mentor, sponsor and stakeholders
- Building relationships with stakeholders and brokering relationships with peers and line managers
Salary: 27,000
Assessment centre dates: April 2024
Start date: Monday 2nd September 2024
ABOUT THE APPRENTICESHIP:
As a Trainee Project Manager, you will develop the technical knowledge plus the professional skills and behaviours to work within our exciting and fast-paced Change team, gaining valuable work experience plus achieving a qualification through a structured apprenticeship programme to kick-start your career.
Through the level 4 Associate Project Manager apprenticeship, you will learn the skills required to play a critical role in managing work effectively and efficiently to ensure the organisation operates successfully. This training will be provided by BPP, who will deliver the apprenticeship. Within your development program, you will learn and grow technical knowledge in the following areas:
- Project management fundamentals such as scheduling, budgeting, and cost control
- Business case and benefits, planning and scope, and quality
- Resources and procurement
- Risks and issues
- Stakeholder communication, leadership, and teamwork
- Governance and methodologies
By the end of the apprenticeship, you will achieve yourLevel 4 Associate Project Manager apprenticeship. Typically, the apprenticeship will take around 19 months to complete.
Requirements
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:
STRAIGHT TALKING | MOVING WITH SPEED | OWNING THE OUTCOME
- Clear communicator, able to tailor style and content to different audiences
- Strong team player and problem solver
- Demonstrated passion and drive for delivering the best outcome
- Moving with speed delivering faster and better<