How you’d get this certificate
- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer ETC Awards Limited has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and ETC Awards Limited awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from ETC Awards Limited.
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These are the units ETC Awards Limited registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Business Research Methods Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of opportunities and challenges for a project within an organisation.
- Know the contemporary business project practices relevant to alternative issues.
- Evaluate and select appropriate theories and frameworks based on the chosen project.
- Understand and critically evaluate different research methods, including applying an appropriate research method to a chosen project (issue/problem/opportunity).
- Understand systematic analysis of qualitative and quantitative information and present results in a clear and consistent format.
- Demonstrate a working understanding of realistic conclusions and make recommendations supported by cost implications and ethical considerations.
Principles of Project Management Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the key contemporary principles of project management
- Distinguish between project constraints that compete with business-as-usual resources
- Understand how to work with key project tools and techniques in project planning
- Evaluate different project planning information and data to modify responses appropriate to the project context and requirements
- Understand how to investigate and develop different project processes for scheduling time and resources
- Know project controls and their application in differing project contexts
Project Controls and IT Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key contemporary principles of project controls and their link to project success
- Demonstrate a knowledge of different project information and data for project control purposes
- Demonstrate the difference between earned value management as a system for project control
- Understand key IT tools and techniques for effective project control planning and implementation
- Demonstrate how to respond to changing project requirements from stakeholders and the need to exert control over the project (scope creep)
- Know the use and application of dashboards for project control
Quality Management Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate an understanding of the key contemporary principles of quality management
- Understand key quality tools and techniques for effective quality planning
- Critically evaluate different quality planning information and data to modify responses appropriate to stakeholder needs
- Understand the different project quality processes for assurance and control
- Know the changing quality requirements from stakeholders and their impact on project success and delivery
- Demonstrate how to critically evaluate continuous improvement for enhancing future project delivery
Work Based Project 2 Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate how to critically evaluate contemporary issues relating to the project management plan for a chosen project.
- Undertake project planning using appropriate tools and techniques to develop an effective plan for project implementation.
- Demonstrate how to identify and respond to risk issues in a change context and develop a quality plan for the project.
- Understand how to identify and confirm the appropriate project controls for successful project delivery.
- Demonstrate collation and investigation techniques for creating a Project Management Plan (PMP).
- Demonstrate critical awareness of the application of IT in developing a Project Management Plan (PMP) and associated controls.
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The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Establish a quality management system for the project
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 172 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.
Where this can lead
Quality Improvement Manager
This work can lead to roles such as director of international quality improvement or head of operations, taking on wider responsibility for standards or operational leadership.
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The credits, and who awards them
Level 5 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by ETC Awards Limited rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Business Research MethodsPrinciples of Project ManagementProject Controls and ITQuality ManagementWork Based Project 2
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration - Bring your own plan Create
For “Principles of Project Management” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Business Research Methods” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
- Lead it Apply
“Quality Management” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Business Research Methods, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit equips learners with business research methods to analyse project opportunities and challenges within organisations. Learners will evaluate and select appropriate theories and frameworks, and critically assess research methodologies.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for ETCAL Level 5 Diploma in Project Management
5 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ETC Awards Limited.
- Business Research Methods
- Principles of Project Management
- Project Controls and IT
- Quality Management
- Work Based Project 2
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