PROJECT MANAGEMENT LEVEL 4
PURPOSE
The primary purpose of the qualification is to provide learners with: A foundation of basic project management knowledge and skills which can be used to build further project management-related competencies. Competence to be an effective project team member. Competence to provide administrative support to a project manager and team members.
COURSE CONTENT
Module 1: Work Orientation
- HIV/AIDS and its effects in the workplace
Module 2:Communication
- Accommodate audience and context needs in oral communication
- Interpret and use information from texts
- Language and communication in occupational learning programmes
- Write texts for a range of communicative contexts
Module 3:Project Management Introduction
- Explain fundamentals of project management
- Project management tools and techniques
Module 4:Project Planning
- Contribute to project initiation, scope definition and scope change
control - Develop a simple schedule to facilitate effective project execution
- Work as a project team member
Module 5: Project Administration Support
- Conduct project documentation management to support project
processes - Implement project administration processes according to
requirements - Engage in sustained oral communication and evaluate spoken texts
- Read, analyze and respond to a variety of texts
- Use the writing process to compose required texts
- Write for a wide range of contexts
Module 6: Project Budgeting and Risk Management
- Contribute to the management of project risk within own field of expertise
- Estimate and prepare cost budget for a project and monitor and control actual cost against budget
- Statistics and probability to interrogate findings
- Represent analyse and calculate shape and motion in 2-and 3-dimensional space
- Use mathematics to investigate and monitor financial aspects of life
Module 7: Project Implementation
- Assist in implementing and assuring project work meets quality requirements
- Monitor, evaluate, and communicate simple project schedules
Module 8: Support Project Teams
- Plan, organize, and support project meetings and workshops
- Develop a plan to enhance team performance
DELIVERY
Duration: 12 Months
Delivery: Classroom/Online/Blended
ENTRY LEVEL REQUIREMENTS
Grade 11
Computer Literacy
CAREER POSSIBILITIES
Qualifying learners could follow a career in:
- Project Manager
- Project Team Leader
- Project Administrator
ACCREDITATION
National Certificate in Project Management NQF 4
Accreditation: Services SETA
SAQA ID: 50080
NQF Level: 4
Credits: 136