ETC Awards Limited · RQF Level 5
ETCAL Level 5 Advance Diploma in Project Controls
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 5
- Total credits120
- Guided learning1,200 hours
- Units in this qualification6
Awarded by ETC Awards Limited · on the Ofqual register
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
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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, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Commercial Awareness and ManagementReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand commercial management techniques and their application to project control.
- Critically analyse, recommend and prepare project control information.
- Understand how to evaluate and interpret contract information and identify requirements that should be incorporated into project control plans.
- Understand how to analyse bid, tender, and commercially contract information through the lens of project controls.
- Analyse project control data effectively to support claim management and dispute resolution.
- Understand the communication processes related to project control data and their importance.
Monitoring Control and ReportingReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand project controls progress monitoring techniques
- Undertake schedule update including schedule change management
- Critically evaluate the project data system in use
- Understand the impact of breakdown and coding structures on reporting
- Investigate and develop earned value management as a comprehensive project control system
- Critically analyse project progress data and trends
Project Control, Governance & PMO EnvironmentReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand governance principles in P3M
- Understand the project control processes that underpin and support the PMO and identify good practices
- Understand the project control processes that underpin and support key governance roles and responsibilities in the PSG and boards
- Know the required project control tools and processes that support the function and purpose of PMO
- Understand the interconnections between project control key principles and project governance and assurance
- Understand the key governance regulations, processes and ethical behaviour and the required support from project control
Risk ManagementReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand key project tools and techniques for effective risk planning, responses and management
- Understand how different strategies to risk and risk management are shaped
- Define risk appetite
- Critically evaluate key risk factors associated with Enterprise and P3M
- Understand change management and project control processes
- Formulate risk strategies for effective project control, change control and risk management
Supply Chain and ProcurementReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand various approaches to Supply Chain Management (SCM).
- Understand the integrated nature of supply chain processes and their relationship to core competencies.
- Analyse the role of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in sourcing and distribution channels.
- Provide a critical evaluation of Supply Chain behaviours, efficiencies, and the role of technology.
- Provide a critical analysis of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems in managing performance effectively within the Supply Chain.
- Understand the role of Total Quality Management (TQM) in improving supply chain processes and management for successful delivery of P3M.
Work Based Project 2Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Critically analyse, recommend and prepare project control information for a Work Based Project (WBP).
- Identify and assess risks occurring in the selected WBP/Case study.
- Identify tools for integrating risk management and change control with other project control processes.
- Understand the link between project control key principles, project governance/assurance and how these are supported by project control.
- Know the key governance regulations and processes relevant to project control.
- Research and critically analyse project progress data.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Apply quality standards to support relationship management in procurement and supply
- Commission and implement projects to develop systems technology to improve the efficiency of procurement and supply
- Commission projects to develop the supply chain
- Identify, analyse and plan responses to project risks
- Manage projects to develop the supply chain
- Manage risks in an IT project
- Plan projects to develop the supply chain
- Select suppliers for the supply chain
Where this can lead
Lead Enterprise Risk Manager
Your career path here isn't a rigid ladder; it's more like a climbing wall with multiple routes to the top. We're committed to helping you find the path that best suits your ambitions and strengths, whether that's leading people, becoming a deep technical expert, or shaping the strategic direction of the entire organisation.
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Skills it covers
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How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit covers commercial management techniques and their application to project control. Learners will develop skills to analyse, recommend, and prepare project control information, as well as evaluate contract information and identify key requirements for project control plans.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for ETCAL Level 5 Advance Diploma in Project Controls
6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ETC Awards Limited.
- Commercial Awareness and Management
- Monitoring Control and Reporting
- Project Control, Governance & PMO Environment
- Risk Management
- Supply Chain and Procurement
- Work Based Project 2
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
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- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
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Why it sticks
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- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
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Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
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Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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