Occupational Certificate: Project Manager NQF 5
Upskill your career with our NQF Level 5 Project Manager course. To begin with, you will learn how to plan, execute, and manage projects across a wide range of industries. This includes understanding project life cycles. It also includes defining objectives, managing timelines, and allocating resources. Additionally, you will discover how to align projects with organisational goals. Right from the start, your ability to manage scope, cost, and quality will strengthen. As a result, you’ll think more strategically about project success.
Next, you will build skills in stakeholder engagement and team coordination. You will also gain experience using tools for scheduling and risk analysis. Moreover, project documentation, reporting, and performance evaluation techniques are taught in detail. After that, you will enhance your leadership abilities. You will also boost communication and conflict-resolution skills. In the same manner, you will strengthen problem-solving under pressure. These are essential in managing teams and delivering results. By the same token, your project management confidence will grow. Meanwhile, your ability to work across departments will be refined.
About Qualification
The Occupational Certificate: Project Manager equips learners with the knowledge and skills to successfully manage projects within diverse industries. It prepares individuals to plan, execute, monitor, control, and close out projects by applying best practices in scope, time, cost, quality, risk, communication, and stakeholder management. This qualification supports South Africa’s growing need for professionalised, accredited project management expertise aligned to international standards.
What You Will Gain From This Course
- Learn the full project life cycle, from initiation and planning to execution, monitoring, and closure.
- Gain the ability to define objectives, set timelines, allocate resources, and manage budgets efficiently.
- Learn how to balance competing demands and deliver successful outcomes within scope and constraints.
- Identify potential project risks early and apply strategies to minimise impact and avoid delays.
- Build your ability to lead, delegate, and motivate diverse teams toward shared goals.
- Learn how to engage stakeholders, prepare reports, and maintain transparency throughout the project.
Purpose
The purpose of this qualification is to prepare a learner to operate as a Project Manager. A Project Manager plans, executes and controls a project, and leads and directs a multi-disciplinary team across the project life cycle to achieve project objectives. The qualification enables learners to apply project management methodologies, tools and techniques to meet stakeholder requirements and deliver quality outcomes.
Course Content
- Introductory studies for Project Managers
- Project scope management
- Initiate a project
- Plan and develop a project management approach and scope statement
- Plan project management systems
- Attend to project initiation management processes
- Attend to project planning processes
- Project Human Resource Management
- Project Stakeholder Management
- Manage and control the human resources of a project
- Project Communications Management
- Conduct and control project communication and stakeholder interaction
- Project Risk Management
- Manage and control project risks
- Project Time Management
- Plan and develop a project timeline and schedule
- Project Cost Management
- Plan for and project the cost of a project
- Project Procurement Management
- Manage and control project procurement activities
- Project Integration Management
- Monitor and control the scope of a project
- Control the project delivery schedules and costs
- Attend to project execution and control processes
- Project Quality Management
- Control the project quality
- Manage and control project close-out activities
- Attend to project close out processes
Delivery
This qualification is delivered via a blended learning model. Knowledge components are facilitated online or via distance learning, while practical and workplace modules are conducted through face-to-face support and workplace-based training.Entry Level Requirements
- Learners must have a National Certificate at NQF Level 4. Mathematical Literacy and Communication at NQF Level 4 are assumed to be in place. Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) is permitted for access.
Possible Careers on Completion
Upon successful completion of this qualification, learners will be equipped to pursue career opportunities in a wide range of sectors that require effective project management. The qualification prepares individuals to function as Project Managers capable of initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, and closing projects across diverse industries.
Career opportunities include:
- Project Manager
- Junior Project Manager
- Programme Coordinator
- Project Administrator
- Operations Manager
- Portfolio Manager (with experience)
- Project Management Officer (PMO) Specialist
- Sector-specific Project Roles (e.g., ICT Project Manager, Construction Project Manager, HR Project Manager)
Accreditation
- Qualification Title: Occupational Certificate: Project Manager
- SAQA Qualification ID: 101869
- NQF Level: 5
- Total Credits: 240
- Registration Authority: QCTO
- Assessment Quality Partner: Services SETA
- Field: Business, Commerce and Management Studies
- Minimum Duration: 24 months